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If you think I was referring to you, you are mistaken. There is a well known Chinese spam troll in this forum though....who is extremely low on facts and quite temperamental (when a discussion actually arises on something or someone brings his off-putting nature to attention). I just do not...

The "this is disposable income " argument only adds further questions: - If the real income (pre tax) is significantly higher , why is the Chinese govt taxing folks at bottom of pyramid so heavily? - What would the implied Gini coefficient actually be given the GDP nominal claims (that Premier...

Actually I forgot about arms embargo aspect, I guess thats something TR did get lifted by this stuff: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-observed-positive-approach-lifting-arms-embargo-finland-sweden-erdogan-2022-05-25/ ....but will they hold to that stuff?...and how relevant...

Sure, thats what I mean by precondition stringency + toughness. i.e not a mechanism (available within NATO) per se, but definitely a clause that TR sticks to at least for the two new entrants where it could do so if it wanted to (compared to those that are doing the same but already NATO...

EU is a very different setup to NATO. Just like UN is very different setup to EU.....so all kind of wiggle room clauses pop up in multilateral/international organisations wherever things are not clearly defined and its "forum/economics first" setup. NATO is quite specific defined corridor on...

How would that even be possible though? NATO is one time entry....once you are in you are in. Any ejection process should have been stipulated in the charter (and it would apply to any member incl Turkey)....but it hasnt. There is thus no "trust but verify" mechanism possible here on the...

Thoughts? @Jackdaws et al.

I hold rogue one as a very good effort I enjoyed. Mandalorian the same. Anyway you first watch this kenobi series.... I just saw a review with ton of spoilers in it (so I wont spoil it for you) ....but I am not going to watch this series as they went with the same ole same ole that ruined the...

India is different context, set of challenges and issues....that are off topic. You can bring it up in the india coffee thread etc if you want to talk about that stuff and we can check the foundational credibility of knowledge and logic on it. I am merely pointing out things like this...

There will now be the typical whataboutism versus Li Keiqiang unfortunate inconvenience. CCP blah propaganda vs Li Keqiang is member of CCP.....which button to press? A rational Chinese person (rare online in english speaking places) would pause.....but spambot types are predictably stuck on...

The hard truth is that this is the much higher leverage US enjoys on Pakistan compared to India. American citizens died in the 26/11 terror attacks.....which is why/how the FBI got involved. Pakistan's actions within AFG (at detriment to US forces) and then of course OBL/Abbotabad sanctuary...

Not very long to be significant. Algeria could probably keep going for a while longer since it has the larger economy and more overall stable economic liquidity (from its energy industry)....but I doubt it will be enough to make any headway into Morocco core areas. It will be punitive limited...

If the PRC/CCP truly believed that, they would have simply had one of their state banks open a bank account with Carrie Lam when she came under US sanction. Instead she had to be paid with briefcases of cash in a most humiliating way. Same thing happening again w.r.t Russia right now.....what...

Typical 50 cent spammers copy paste one liner and graphics without actually reading the underlying reports (and analysis/discussion) they are from...including their actual applicability. This is why you get dissonance between what they spam post and what their own Premier Li Keqiang said about...

Simply put, Morocco main cities/population is concentrated (to coastline mostly) compared to its total landmass....compared to Ukraine. This also is the feature for Algeria too (and extends into libya, egypt etc as well). Putting a critical node of something further away from...

Both are equally potentially dangerous. The high water mark of danger is the male elephant in "musth" as there are huge amount of hormones pumping in such a large animal (testosterone can be 60 times higher than normal....and we are talking about a multi-ton animal). The word musth...

In my case, 65 always had equal prominence w.r.t 71 in my formative years (my dad was the near singular bridge to most of this, so thats pretty different to popular media in India I suppose, something I am in large part removed from still). In fact it was nearly a continuous story arc of...

Was it really this number? 3000? Reports in late april (about 2 months later) state about 1300 launches or so till that point....so definitely in initial phase it was not this number then. The issue with Ukraine is its very different context. It has a very large array of nodes (for its...