Can we quit with the trolling and insults etc...especially after one's point/view has been made pretty firmly?
This is a serious thread that I like to follow the development and actual structured debate and analysis.
EDIT: mod deleted the posts, thanks mod team.
Let us see. That is why I feel we get a concrete path laid out either this year or next hopefully.
IMO this stuff should have been squared away in 2019 and 2020....covid or no covid.
At least now it is time for Indonesia to pick a horse or two here (one for the now, and one for the future)...
It just a question of where you put thresholds personally of regional power, major power, superpower, hyperpower etc.
They are just words and personal interpretation/definition in the end.
But the fact remains we are still using occidental terminology/scope (and debate reference)....rather...
Yah bro, but Canada was big time involved (and still involved) in F-35 in similar way....sending/receiving engineers, making components even (it still does)...over 20 years or so now.
Seen engine parts myself. Anyone can focus in and assume (without larger political decision picture) we are...
Consider that Imperial Japan and Imperial Germany, the eras also afforded fairly autarkic mercantilism.
The world was far less networked in supply chains and labour pools. End-products and resources were all that really mattered....value addition was not really traded and integrated at all...
Will we get a release of more info on INA's participation roadmap this year or at least sometime in 2022?
For most part, there seem to be some cold freeze status quo till INA budgeting commitment is shored up.
Indonesia has too many fingers in too many baskets right now....and there's too much...
It was taken from a highlight video released by IAF.
Hopefully more footage comes with time.
Will keep my eyes peeled.
@crixus @Gautam @Gessler et al... if you see more lets post it here.
As far as I am concerned, there is just the matter of the good and bad the patricians of any society have done. This is what is to be debated.
Plebs everywhere in the world are generally (collectively) innocent till proven guilty and are all the same worldwide as they are all homo sapiens. One...
Better be prepared to see more try their luck when border is opened:
https://www.yahoo.com/now/chinese-property-developer-fantasia-just-025112615.html
These are vast life savings of many Chinese people. They put them nearly all into real estate...and looks like a prolonged tumble is going to...
The issue regarding OP story is any country can check for themselves by remote sensing, the size and number of these facilities and likely how many people they hold.
If the estimate is indeed around 1 million people or similar to that, obviously that was a big sustained operation in short...
Cpl 5-day bans have been issued for forum rule violations and related derailment here.
Members are advised to follow the rules and not get into flamewar.
We understand some topics are sensitive, but it is not proper to drag other countries into topic and smear/ad-hominem on that.
Other...
Why would one leak be the be all end all on something like that? It was that complete and extensive?
The govts etc not caught by this dragnet get clean chit? I don't think so.
Dragnets are only so big, the rivers here are many and wide.
You have source for these numbers? You are implying a markup of 10x which seems too much.
One must also consider what supermarkets/grocery chains put in for warehousing, truck logistics, staff etc etc that the farmer does not (all things the govt stores will also have to do btw - just with...