Estimated Russian army spending is between $85-$105 billion USD. (This has likely skyrocketed since that that estimate was taken as Russia has transitioned to a wartime economy.)

Chinese? ~$212-$230 billion USD.

Spending on military is better put in context of GDP, and actual spending is going to be very different than published or even estimated numbers. (It's likely much more, is what I am implying.)

I actually agree that this money is better spent on social welfare. It's a stupid situation across the board and many countries are guilty of this disparity.

For better or for worse, much of that money goes back into the overall economy of the country supplying the aid. Not all, but most. (This can get complicated due to the lifespan of specific types of munitions.)

What I am saying is that there is a ton of blame to pass around and poking at one country or another is an agenda, not a solution.

Did it not seem strange to them that Russia had set up no defenses along that part of the border, where the land is sparsely populated and not especially militarily strategic? Not even mine fields or an anti-tank trenches as elsewhere?

Cool.

Title might be a bit clickbait though.

It’s oldest known representational art. Not oldest known art.

For example the carvings in the Blomos cave in South Africa are atleast 75’000 years old.

Edit: Thank you for editing the title! That’s pretty weird mistake by Nature I thought they had high standards. Well they have peer reviewed and approved some dodgy research in my field recently so maybe I should be more skeptical.

I love hearing stuff like this. 51, 000 years old is already insane. 75,000 years old is 24,000 years older than that. I can't even imagine 24,000 years older than today.

Why can't we get movies about this shit instead of another Marvel sequel? I want some scientifically accurate adventure about life in 73,000 BC.

But NASA does care about Congress approving its budget requests. And the Republican controlled House and Republican filibustering Senate minority do not want anything done about climate change.

Thus sadly, it may lead to blowback against NASA by the currently insane US right. There's already talk about elimination of NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration), privatizing its weather forecasting, and restructuring NASA's Earth observation initiatives that involve climate research.

Regardless of who wins the presidency next month and who has the majority in either house of Congress, the Republican party will try to block such research or dismiss its findings.

If Trump wins, he and his Agenda 2025 cronies (including his VP) will manipulate him to rip anything like this out. Plus Trump's boss Putin needs to keep selling fossil fuels as the main thing keeping Russia's economy afloat.

“…the ongoing eastward and southward shift of the world’s economic and political centre of gravity.”

Citation needed

Yeah, turns out war is pretty fucked up. Look up the rape of nanjing. Or Pearl Harbor. Or Hiroshima.

You get the idea.