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See I agree, but Boston-New York and New York-DC are still very competitive with driving and flying, if only because their respective airports are so far from the city itself.
See I agree, but Boston-New York and New York-DC are still very competitive with driving and flying, if only because their respective airports are so far from the city itself.
Canada’s military was responsible for the subjugation and genocide of many First Nations group, including against the Metis, Cree, and Assiniboine peoples, as well as deployed abroad to subjugate the Boers in South Africa in support of the British Empire. The Canadian Army was also deployed in Afghanistan, where Western powers fought for two decades to replace the Taliban with the Taliban and caused untold amounts of suffering in the process.
Now do Iran.
Considering Canada declared Iran’s army as a terrorist entity…
The US refuses to send Ukraine better ATACMS. At the end of the day, the US wants cluster munitions to proliferate because it aligns with NATO military doctrine.
Where do you think the energy for electric heating and cooling comes from? Thin air?
AC still makes up like 7% of global GHG emissions. That’s more than aviation and computing… Combined. That’s on par with the entire iron and steel industries. In fact, it’s almost on par with the GHG emissions of all agriculture output and is expected to exceed the entire agriculture industry’s GHG emissions before 2050.
This doesn’t answer why Crimea’s population has more or less remained constant (with growth consistent for its size and geography)…
This is just pulling numbers out of your ass to justify shit on your face.
Civilians are a manufactured concept by the Russian deep state
dedicate more forces to protecting their nuclear capabilities
Are you hearing yourself? The nuclear capability is the protection. There’s a reason that during the Cold War nobody was stupid enough to attack someone else’s nuclear early warning radar. The entire principle of mutually assured destruction relies on both parties knowing what the other is NOT doing so they know that they don’t need to respond.
I guess the fear of nukes has waned since the end of the Cold War.
Y’all will literally sacrifice the entire world so long as Russia loses.
Saying that a radar jammer is protecting Russia’s nuclear triad is like… Well, obviously? Like, are you stupid, or are you just trying to justify nuclear war?
nuclear early warning system
Taiwan doesn’t want to be Chinese, so it isn’t. Crimea wants to be Russian, so it shouldn’t be?
I get the sense that the only thing people like you want is to separate countries on some vague idea of ethnic lines and Balkanize countries because racism has been such a big part of your identity.
Purge has a Soviet connotation.
How about “removal of dissidents”?
The UAE now has a more progressive abortion policy than some states?
The other perspective is that defence is much easier in the information era. If the US couldn’t win against Yemen, what makes you think China could win against Taiwan?
Japan Times not providing context for Japan’s behaviour during WW2?
Impossible.
Improving relations between China and Russia/Eastern Europe is the solution to both countries’ demographics problems.
There’s two ways to look at this:
If Ukraine wasn’t selecting flight paths that pass over civilians, this wouldn’t have happened
If Russia wasn’t intercepting these missiles, this wouldn’t have happened
Both of those statements are insane, so let’s talk about the real problem of cluster munitions. Clusrer munitions are an absolutely disgusting weapon, and their usage basically salts the ground indefinitely because it’s guaranteed that not all clusters will detonate. Cluster munitions, when intercepted, cause mass civilian casualty events because they are inherently anti-personnel weapons. Cluster munitions should not be used in populated areas. Russia drew condemnation for this in 2022 Ukraine and earlier in Georgia. Ukraine should draw condemnation for this in 2024.
The UN Convention on Cluster Munitions happened in 2010. The primary users of cluster munitions are the US (and it’s allies) and Russia (who does not export them afaik). As signatories to the CCM, EU states should condemn the usage of cluster munitions by it’s allies. For obvious reasons, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia absolutely despise cluster munitions (even today, people die because of the ones dropped during the Vietnam War).
The foundations of international law should not be flouted because of geopolitical tensions. If the US and Russia want to sow the seeds of suffering and misery, let them, but letting cluster munitions proliferate is bad for humanity.
People can say that China’s been escalating the situation all they want, but the facts are that realpolitik necessitates doing something. China needs to show ASEAN two things simultaneously:
Aligning with China is beneficial
Aligning with the US is harmful
(1) Is easy: China FDI outflows to ASEAN countries have been absurd, China is dumping money to connect Vietnam to China’s HSR network (at cost), improving Cambodia’s role in international trade through canal construction, obscene EV deals in Indonesia/Malaysia, and more.
(2) is much more difficult. Many ASEAN countries have been trying to thread the needle between taking Chinese money and accessing US markets. The Philippines is, obviously, the most egregious player here. China is trying to show ASEAN that aligning with the US has consequences (in contrast, Duterte’s Philippines had a very healthy relationship with China), especially as China looks to build a regional trade superbloc akin to NAFTA.
Car infrastructure has always been funded out of public coffers. The personal automobile is not inherently a profitable enterprise to a country. It serves primarily as a way of improving personal mobility and thus second- and third- order economic productivity.
Subways and trains are vastly more efficient systems, but unfortunately they don’t have the same military logistics benefits.
In terms of actual companies, we’re seeing a bit of a renaissance with EVs because EVs are inherently simple, easy to commoditize, and don’t require as significant amounts of government support. China has basically cut government backing out of their EV industry, which has led to some consolidation but somehow has not ended the price war.
Funny that you should bring that up, because Eastern Ukraine is ethnically and linguistically Russian-dominated, just like Crimea. Self-determination for me but not for thee?
Why does Western Ukraine get to dictate the sovereignty of Eastern Ukraine?