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'A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners As Ukraine has scrambled to source ammunition, arms and equipment for its defence, Russia has presided over a massive ramping up of industrial production over the last two years that has outstripped what many west...

Kyiv Independent puts out a long article on the situation in Avdiivka, hitting amongst other things Ukraine's manpower shortage: https://kyivindependent.com/avdiivka-defense-uncertain-as-ukraine-struggles-with-fortification/ *snip article* That'll bode well for the spring. With an under strength ar...

I still think the problem is less technical and more unwillingness of the market companies in Europe to take risks and invest in increased production. At the moment they are happy to sell at inflated prices and let Ukrainians bear the risk while they profit. It's ugly, imo. To be fair, this is why ...

If Russia attacks a NATO member, doesn't that pull the US into war with Russia ? No. The chain of events is that after an attack on a NATO member in NATOland, the members come together to determine if they should invoke Article 5. If they deem it so, then the individual countries declare war. At wh...

Batman wrote: ↑2024-02-11 07:25pm You telling me I'm wrong on any of those?

My post wasn't referring to yours in any way.

Trump's foreign policy, especially in the 2024 run, is like bad forum posts. It's like people who respond to criticism of the US by attacking the country of the person who makes the criticism There was a pundit on fivethirtyeight (I think) who posited that in 2016 Trump said what he wanted, and the ...

If he's still an advocate for homeopathy, now's a chance to prove its viability on a big stage.

Or people stay home because they're both crap.

Genocide Joe really needs to turn it around.

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2024-02-08 07:27pm Needless to say, Trump has latched on to this despite being arguably worse

It won't matter if Trump is worse if Biden has done it too.

"I'm not as bad as the other guy" is not a great campaign line.

Broomstick wrote: ↑2024-02-07 05:59pm"Hey, hey [fill in a name], how many kids did you kill today?"

I swear to God I'm getting whiplash from feeling one moment like we're in the 1930's then in the 1960's the next.

Hard to beat a classic chant.

Biden's ongoing support of Israel is having domestic effects. Joe Biden had barely started speaking at a high-profile re-election campaign rally focusing on abortion rights in Virginia last week when the carefully choreographed made-for-TV spectacle exploded into a cacophony of angry yelling. “Genoc...

The US has plenty of ammo and lots of shiny guns to shoot it. I think one of the intended messages here was "We can reach out and punch you wherever you are and you can't do a damn thing to stop us. We don't care if you know we're coming, it doesn't matter because you can't stop us." But ...

Here's an analysis from the ABC. It's from an Australian perspective, but it's still a good read. Ukraine is on the hunt for more soldiers to join its army — but a new bill could backfire on Volodymyr Zelenskyy Late last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy raised the option of mobilisation...

LadyTevar wrote: ↑2024-02-01 06:48pm Iran is certainly spazzing out over the idea of attacks on their own soil.

There are less ableist ways to put that.

LaCroix wrote: ↑2024-02-01 05:43pm "Citation please" is a well known trolling tacting to derail a thread - now there's a citation for you.

Asking for evidence is a troll thing?

vakundok wrote: ↑2024-02-01 03:59pm Please not this "provide source or remain silent" again.

Nah. As a reader, I'd prefer to know if things come from credible places as I read them.

No, it's not that. They have petroleum, and that's the substance our current civilization runs on. As long as that's the case we can never leave, and the Middle East can never be rid of everyone else. If the western powers pull out of the area, then some places will fall to chaos. Some will blame s...

It's not hard for the DNC to come out and say this retired old woman doesn't speak for the party. Democrats are just cowards. Politically they're that guy who agrees with everyone else so long as the GOP feels bad about it. One could hardly describe Pelosi as retired, given that she is still in off...

It also means that the unless there's a proper rebuke, the Democrats as a party approve of her behaviour.

It's at the end, as she's in the car.

In a follow up to the above story, Pelosi has now yelled at a bunch of protestors; "Go back to China, where your headquarters is!"

A Twitter link, but all I could find.

Is there a legal requirement for a certain amount of accessibility for immigration centre services?

It doesn't look like it at this moment. Every article attributes the attack to nonspecific Iran backed militants.

Let's hope that the retributive phase of things is more specific.

When the USSR was dissolved, President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and turned over his presidential powers— including control of the nuclear launch codes —to Boris Yeltsin, who was now the first president of the Russian Federation. And somewhat weirdly, the ones in Ukraine were also controlled from ...

Ralin wrote: ↑2024-01-28 11:11pm We were talking about Soviet nukes in Ukrainian territory, dum dum.

My post followed this one:

Ralin wrote: ↑2024-01-28 09:24pm

aerius wrote: ↑2024-01-28 09:18pm 1) Those were Soviet nukes which just happened to be in the Ukraine when the USSR broke up.

As opposed to the Soviet nukes that just happened to be in Russia with the USSR broke up?