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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

To the headline: NO.

The clearest change that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is likely to make on foreign policy is in Ukraine.

Not really, despite his insane promises, he most likely will do nothing. Except block further aid to Ukraine. But that already happened when the house blocked aid for 8 months.

declining Western stockpiles

Many European countries are supporting Ukraines native weapon production, and increasing production in EU. Although USA has a bigger industrial complex, and some of the best weapons, I think the rest of the world will still more than a a match for Russia.

Ukraine’s significant manpower and corruption problems —have increased.

No it has not increased, and it is worse for Russia. Russia is blatantly corrupt, and their economy evidently cannot carry the burden of the war at current levels, where Ukraine has a financial budget for next year that seems way more sustainable.

Ukraine will win without USA, because the rest of the world will continue to support Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 13 hours ago

For a terrorist state, this is a mild incident. But maybe it will help to show that Israel is not a lawful state. Making it easier to understand that they are not acting lawfully in many other areas.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If that party doesn’t actually crumble as a result of this, both from internal and external pressures, I’ll be amazed.

Oh the Irony, this is exactly what I thought would happen to the Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I don't think NATO is dead, but NATO allies can't rely on USA, and USA was by far the biggest military force in NATO.
Everything else was mostly built to support American forces, which in case of an article 5 situation is the commander of the NATO forces.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It's not just about the next 4 years, we can't base our defense on a country we can only rely on for 4 years at a time.
There were already problems with Bush Jr. then Trump once, and now Trump again.
You'd have to be insane to believe this is just a one or two off, and things will get back to normal.
Normalcy regarding NATO ended already with Bush.

The times where USA was the deciding factor in most world policies, because USA was backed up by the majority of the global economy is over.
USA loses just as much as Europe and many other US allies. Trump said our so called friends are our true enemies. Trump believes Canada, UK, EU etc are enemies, and he has said directly that Russia and China are "not so bad". Despite Russia is invading in Europe, and threatening nuclear war, and China is behaving ever more aggressively in the China sea and against Taiwan, and in general against their neighbors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They are absolutely 100% unintelligent, I never claimed otherwise. Still they know what the science says, they just refuse to acknowledge it over their stupid religious faith.

Being an idiot doesn't mean you are uninformed on very basic issues.
Every single one of these idiots have been presented with the facts at some point. They just refuse to accept fact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sure, they know broadly

I never said they know how, but they know the scientists know, but they won't acknowledge science for the reasons I mentioned.
Every single one of these idiots have been presented with the basic facts, and know them, they simply won't accept facts over their beliefs.

The point is they have been INFORMED. So they you can't call them uninformed.
But you can call them ignorant because they CHOOSE to IGNORE facts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Except there is nothing in the context that shows you are Swedish.
As you can probably see, the vast majority misunderstood you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Maybe you should have a lok at the context again, because the context clearly implies USA not Europeans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Every antivaxer knows the Science shows vaccines work, they just refuse to accept science, and claim it's a conspiracy, because they are religious fanatics, that refuse to accept anything that counter their religion.
I've claimed for 20 years that USA as a nation is mentally ill. They celebrate individualism and freedom to a point where sociopathy has become a virtue, because zero moral standards means ultimate freedom. Then they replace their lack of moral standards with arbitrary pseudo moral standards from the bible.
That's the problem, not that they are uninformed.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

closer towards the EU

Hahahaha closer?!?! Hahahaha he calls US allies the true enemies, and Russia and China are not so bad.
What the fuck have you been smoking for the past 12 years?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This has nothing to do with intelligence, but everything to do with selfish entitlement.

 

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 07.10.24 approximately amounted to:

personnel – about 660470 (+1160) people
Tanks – 8933 (+14) units
armored combat vehicles – 17710 (+31) units
Artillery systems – 19156 (+64) units
MLRS – 1223 (+7) units
air defense – 972 (+2) units
aircraft – 368 (+0) units
helicopters – 328 (+0) units
Operative-Tactical level UAV – 16643 (+65)
Cruise missiles – 2615 (+2)
Ships /boats – 28 (+0) units
submarines – 1 (+0) units
motor vehicles and tankers – 26102 (+96) units
special equipment – 3364 (+1)

The data is being clarified.

Fight the occupier! Together we will win!

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AOC speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention

 

Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia's plan is, and it is not self-evident that it is a smart use of resources. In this video I discuss whether we might be seeing a return to the fragmented command structures that Russia had in the beginning of the war.

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My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones, despite the Moto had cheap Panda glass front.

Then I bought my $800 glass back Xiaomi 13T Pro in January, and I loved the phone for the camera and good specs. But alas after only 4 months, and single drop of just 30 cm while sitting on the porch, the glass back immediately cracked! The back now looks like an ugly mess, and the high water resistance is very likely gone too.

For sure the last time I buy a phone with a glass back!!!

I wonder why glass back is so popular, and I curse the media for reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S2 as "feeling a bit cheap", because the back was synthetic, and drop tests showed it was 10 times as durable as the iPhone with its glass back.

Samsung did it right in the beginning, glass backs are a curse.

PS: I don't use condoms for my phones, if they need that for daily use, it's an obvious design flaw!!!

The glass back is supposedly there to give a premium feel to the phone. But because it's fragile, people have to use a cover, but with the cover, the premium feel of a glass back is gone anyways?
How is glass back not a design flaw?

EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION:

I am not clumsy, that's why I believe the phone should be able to last without cover. This was the first time the phone slid out of my packet, and I've NEVER dropped it out of my hands. One 30 cm slip and it's broken. Where for instance my Moto had maybe 4-6 in all over the years, and remained unscathed, apart from some tiny scratches.
The sliding out of pocket does occur maybe a couple of times per year, but it's a low drop, and the phone should absolutely be able to handle that tiny drop, as it's an item for everyday use.
I've also never had problems with scratches on my screen on any phone, which is the reason people use screen protectors I guess, which I don't either, because they are ugly, for instance they create a tiny ring around the camera, and they feel awful IMO, my phone came with it, and it took exactly 10 seconds for me to decide to remove it, because I could feel the edge of the screen protector when using the phone.
But please stop with the dropping my phone regularly comments! Just because I dropped my Moto a few times (slid out of pocket) over almost 4 years! Always from low height, which it should be able to handle a few times.

 

Profits were expected to be halved from the 2022 1.2 tn Rubles, but instead they made a loss in 2023 of 629bn Rubles or £5.5bn.

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