Warships could choose when and where to engage, concentrating strength to eliminate defenses. The DF-21D reverses this dynamic by putting warships within the effective range of shore-based artillery.
20 Nuclear Missiles: China’s Final Calm Signal to the U.S
Chinese state media released a video showcasing 20 DF-26 missiles. Next time, they might be aimed at Guam.Li Jingyi (China Academy)
Why sanctions on Russia are literally backfiring: Moscow appeared ripe for Western-imposed economic pain after its invasion of Ukraine but today the country is thriving - Responsible Statecraft
Why sanctions on Russia are literally backfiring
Moscow appeared ripe for Western-imposed economic pain after its invasion of Ukraine but today the country is thrivingAriel Petrovics (Responsible Statecraft)
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That’s a different standard. I’m not claiming that there haven’t been negative consequences, but I would hardly call the economic sanctions “backfiring.” To me, backfiring means that the action actually brought the West further away from their goal of harming Russia using nonviolent means with the sanctions.
Consider the price of oil. Having options to sell oil in more markets means you can generate more profits. Being forced into selling oil only to a smaller set of countries who are willing to purchase your product? That’s going to have economic consequences even though it does increase isolationism. I also imagine it’s quite a bit more inconvenient being an oligarch right now in the presence of sanctions.
Has there been some blowback? Sure. But I don’t think it’s backfired completely. There’s definitely been a major impact.
Russia makes more money from the sanctions being in place from their oil sales then without the sanctions.
That is the definition of failing.
P.S. Russian oil has full reach of the market because countries that should abide by the sanctions aren't.
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Washington DC is where a lot of Russian agents live.
You know, Republicans.
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Calling Quincy Institute republicans, this is too good, you only read headlines. Pathetic!
Why do you read Lemmy instead of watching Rachel Maddow? Doesn't it put you in terrible agony from the cognitive dissonance? You're turning into my little reply guy. 😭🤧
Why do you read Lemmy instead of watching Rachel Maddow?
Because lemmy is more informative than cable news overall, and provides links to various news sources that range from vastly better than cable to outright tankie propaganda. Just have to sort out the bullshit.
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Calling Quincy Institute republicans, this is too good, you only read headlines. Pathetic!Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is the Editorial Director of Responsible Statecraft and Senior Advisor at the Quincy Institute. Previously, she served as Executive Editor of the The American Conservative magazine, where she had been reporting and publishing regular articles on national security, civil liberties, foreign policy, veterans, and Washington politics since 2007. From 2013 to 2017, Vlahos served as director of social media and online editor at WTOP News in Washington, D.C. She also spent 15 years as an online political reporter for Fox News at the channel’s Washington D.C. bureau, as well as Washington correspondent for Homeland Security Today magazine.
She worked for a decade and a half at the most well known Republican propaganda network, Fox News, plus other conservative shitholes.
You seem to have forgotten how these things work, those are excellent credentials for a democrat in 2024. Have you heard of the Lincoln Project by any chance? What about Liz Cheney? Why is Harris taking endorsements from Russian agents? 🤭
You must have missed all of the GOP congresspeople calling the Quincy Institute traitors! They're the most bipartisan, bog-standard foreign policy group available. You've just become as jingoistic and partisan as Tom Cotton! You have Nuland on Maddow to catch up on! You don't have time to be my reply guy!
Holy shit, talk about obvious propaganda. You think a full half of the country is completely all about supporting a country that our entire military industrial complex is built to fight and that our military decided to declare as a near-peer rival? And you think it's the tankies that have been taken in by propaganda?
Jesus.
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Food insecurity in the USA exists without anyone sanctioning it. Stores have literally started locking deodorant and baby formula behind glass to prevent more theft.
But you think a Newsweek story about a single person stealing a pack of butter is evidence that the sanctions are working?
Worse, you are totally cool with sanctions harming average citizens with food insecurity and not aware that collective punishment is a literal crime against humanity?
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The realities of an attack/ did Israel achieve what it wanted?
The realities of an attack/ did Israel achieve what it wanted?
Iran’s defense policy for confronting any threat to its security is steadfast, with Tehran’s high-ranking officials committed to their true promise in this regard.nournews
Who builds commercial nuclear reactors worldwide?
This infographic shows the origin of nuclear reactors under construction across the world. Almost a third of all new projects is implemented by Russia’s Rosatom corporation.
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It took me a lot of time to realize that the flags next to the Countries' names are where the origin is shown
Is Germany building a nuclear plant in south America?
I wondered how they could be qualified since the most recent plants were opened during the end of the 80s and they shut down the last ones last year.
They haven't started construction of that reactor in the article you're referencing from 2022, they are talking about site preparations for construction of the reactor, early construction basically, not even sure if that counts for the Wiki page they sourced, if they have begun by now it might not be reflected in this wiki.froth.zone/wiki/Category:… as Statista lists many more Chinese projects than Wikipedia does.
When they do /if they did begin working on the actual reactor, it's projected to have 1/3 (?) the output of a regular commercial nuclear reactor, so I leave it to you to argue for its inclusion on Wikipedia.
130 women committed suicide in the same day in Sudan to avoid being raped by Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
Sudanese Women Committs Suicide to Avoid Rape - teleSUR English
Some 130 women committed suicide in the same day in Sudan to avoid being raped by paramilitary groups involved in the armed conflict in that African country.teleSURenglish
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I’m interested in hearing more about what’s happening in Sudan and why.
I’ve been to a lot of pro Palestine marches and there is often a lot of Sudanese people there speaking about issues happening there.
Well before that I want to say the world's ruling class is centered in the imperial core, that is the US, W. Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, especially NYC/Chicago/LA/London/Brussels, and their subimperialist pawns such as Modi's party in India, Turkey, Israel, Singapore, Dubai, and S. Arabia and when we talk about global starvation there is one major cause, neocolonialism. Food sanctions cause acute death and pain but technological sanctions and hoarding create the conditions for it.
So when Israelis say "why aren't people talking about Sudan" they are implicitly trying to create a situation that pits Sudanese people again Palestinians. They are trying to sever a conversation about decolonization and antiimperialism.
The USA has entire sections of its high command devoted to Africa and South America. They are instigating conflicts between the AES governments (many which have had a lot of growth from local militias that defended populations the US & French etc would not) & insurgencies which they either actively fomented or did nothing about while safeguarding only international corporations' natural resource extraction projects and throwing the local population to the wolves. The richest nations in the world allied with UAE, they are doing nothing about the RSF and not pressuring Dubai so we can only speculate if the US is doing even more to assist them such as with intelligence transfers, or other covert actions. First world financial system wants to keep the people, products, and resources of Africa cheap, and if people have to die to clear off some land too, that's just fine with them. Anyways you may have missed it but US media was reporting postively on child warlords that tried to coup the goverment of Ethiopia xcancel.com/AlanRMacLeod/statu… ("highly motivated young recruits" 👀) while Blinken mulled a no fly zone xcancel.com/AlanRMacLeod/statu… maybe I have missed a smoking gun like that with Sudan:
Sudan Army finds UAE arms supplied to RSF rebels The Sudanese Army found boxes of UAE supplied ammunition and medicines as they cleared an area previously under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in southeast Sudan. Evidence of UAE vehicles, weapons and even mercenaries has been surfacing for months in Sudan as the Emirates continues to fund conflicts across the Gulf and Eastern Africa. @MEMO (British-Turkish paper if I recall correctly) xcancel.com/MiddleEastMnt/stat…
Thank you for providing more information and those articles.
I’ve been reading a little about this this morning and it’s kinda crazy that probably the largest humanitarian crisis on earth right now isn’t getting more mainstream media attention.
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Fuck that's depressing
Reminds of a quote about rape during war time from a writer ... I think it was Vonnegut but I forget
"There are two types of women in war .... those that were raped ... and those that will be raped"
Of all the supposed civilization and modernization that we claim to uphold as a species ... the fact that this is still part of our world means that we are no more civilized then we were a thousand years ago, we just have computers, fast cars and nuclear weapons.
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I mean maybe for you...
That Eldritch biology experiment shares many great memes & such though.
I'm personally a fan of Blue People.
Kolanoki? Kokalni? Blue name guy.
I don't think I'll ever be one of those. Tho, TexasDrunk always seems to chime in when he sees me. But it has been a while.
Hi TexasDrunk, hope it was a good Halloween at the bar.
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I see Drag often
But I’m a Bad Dragon aficionado, so my eyes naturally gravitate to stuff like that.
Yeah, but from the morbid (& historical) perspective it is kinda impressive tho, isn't it?
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It's done differently and at a much much higher cost (& more constant maintenance) than in your average direct regime controlled counties.
Eg 70 years of cop shows & how they solve all crimes (and not just 0.2% of the 1% they even bother with), or how movies go though DoD for 'Murika superiority forever ~~check~~ rewrite, how Americans don't know the direct (much less indirect) dearth-toll they are producing year through year, how 3/4 of the world population hate you but you think they warship you, etc?
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I especially like how a lot of openly available data is treated as 'conspiracy theories'.
If you didn't have any knowledge of it, there is no way you would believe such a thing is possible.
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Eyyy it's communist galeophilia!
The blue people are 🇰🇴🇱🇴🇳🇦🇰🇮 and 🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇴🇷
Oh shit thats what galeophile means? I hadn't bothered to look it up 😭
Edit: It's actually really fucking funny that I did not realize that was referring to me. Or that I am known enough to have a meme made about me? Perhaps I need to touch more grass
First would be Yogthos, but i wouldn't use the word "briefly" here
Third is definitely me. But i don't think there could be any level of fondness for cats that could even be described as "excessive"
Fun fact: dragons have a cloaca with a penis inside. The penis extends out from the cloaca when erect, but when flaccid you can stimulate the prostate with a hand, dick, or dildo. Always wash thoroughly before having sex and only fuck sapient dragons who can verbally consent.
Until next time!
*I'm David Attenborough, join me next time when we discuss the intimacies of the northeastern mountain Unicorn."
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Sapience is not a requirement for consent. Or consent is not required where sapience does not exist. Or more likely, it is proportional. Consent and sapience is not a binary, a dog cannot talk but it will bite your nuts off if it doesn't want you using it like a self cleaning self heating fleshlight. The same applies dragon
You are not ready for the future.
Call me the fun police, but I don't think we need to raise Lemmy power users to the position of micro celebrities, and I don't find this kind of circle jerking cute.
And I say this as somebody with positive opinions of many of the people referenced.
It's just like... Weird and kind of lame, tbh.
Former CIA, Pentagon chief describes incursion into Kursk as Kiev’s ‘strategic mistake’
WASHINGTON, November 1. /TASS/. The Kiev government’s decision to attack Russia’s borderline Kursk Region has become its "strategic mistake," said former US Secretary of Defense and the ex-director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Robert Gates.
"And I would just say this about the incursion into Russia, the Kursk incursion: my personal view is that that was a strategic mistake. That's 30,000 very good Ukrainian troops that I think should have been used to strengthen the front in the Donbass, where they are under huge pressure, and the Russians are very slowly moving forward, taking one village at a time," he said at an event Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington (declared as an undesirable organization in Russia),
In his opinion, Russia is capable of continuing its special military operation in Ukraine until it decides that its goals are met, and underestimating its ability to carry on "is a huge mistake."
He also said that the West has "significantly underestimated Russia, and it probably has to do with not reading enough Russian history."
Ukraine’s massive incursion into the Kursk Region began on August 6. A federal level state of emergency is in effect there. Residents of border areas are being taken to safety. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev has lost more than 27,500 troops and 177 tanks since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk Region. The operation to wipe out the Ukrainian forces continues.
Former CIA, Pentagon chief describes incursion into Kursk as Kiev’s ‘strategic mistake’
In Robert Gates opinion, Russia is capable of continuing its special military operation in Ukraine until it decides that its goals are met, and underestimating its ability to carry on "is a huge mistake"TASS
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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GE-Proton9-17 Released
Proton:
-wine updated to latest bleeding edge
-dxvk updated to latest git
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-Audio fix for Mini Ninjas (thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
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-Disable esync/fsync in Disgaea 4 to prevent crash (thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
Nothing major here, just a refresh of various parts that need updates from git, mostly to add new video playback fixes from upstream proton.
Teenage boy dead after exchange of gunfire with 4 officers in Aurora, Ont.
Teenage boy dead after exchange of gunfire with 4 officers in Aurora, Ont.: SIU
A 17-year-old is dead after he was involved in an exchange of gunfire with four police officers who were responding to a break-and-enter in progress in Aurora on Wednesday night, the province’s police watchdog says.Toronto
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Nice timing. I just switched a desktop to Alpha 2 earlier today.
What is new in Alpha 3? New functionality? Or just more polish?
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The Energy Transition Is Slowing Down
The Energy Transition Is Slowing Down
The Paris Agreement goal of holding warming to well less than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels is not just increasingly appearing to be out of reach. The energy transition as a whole is slowing down.Matthew Zeitlin (Heatmap News)
Emmanuel Todd: The end of the West is near
Emmanuel Todd: Das Ende des Westens ist nah
Emmanuel Todd legt eine eigenwillige Deutung der globalen Zustände vor.www.fr.de
The main conclusion is:
What can one say about this book? For those who follow Putin's theories, it is certainly invaluable. It even predicts the end of Ukraine. But for those who see Putin as the aggressor who started the first major land war since the Second World War, the book reads like one big aberration.
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in reply to highduc • • •Iran absolutely has a right to defend itself from the Imperial powers and their warmongering.
But, will the US get involved so that it can finally attack Iran like they've wanted to for years? I mean, Israel initiated and Iran fired missiles back as a response and western media predictably wrote about it as if Iran attacked Israel.
Probably their best bet is a military alliance as a deterrent, but we all know the US doesn't back down from any opportunity to kill, dismember, steal, and colonize, no matter the cost.
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