You mean stop Chinese MPs from accepting their help. It's not that difficult.

Don't say he is doing nothing! Orbán is strip-mining Hungary and becoming a USD billionaire in the process.

Honest question: What is the purpose of a public inquiry and why is it needed? It seems an inquiry is necessary to find out what happened, but we already know exactly what happened, and there is a parliamentary committee looking into it, no? The calls for a public inquiry seem to be coming from cons who will do anything to make JT look bad. In this case, he doesn't need their help, he's doing a fine job of it on his own.

Not an expert but isn’t there a NATO expansion angle to that argument? Provoking Russia wasn’t a good move. I don’t know why we can’t look at all sides of this issue.

Technically he got 54% of the votes last time. Most likely he is not even supported by half of the population, as his voters are rallied more effectively.

It is complicated but not in all areas. Some places has pretty straight forward answers and some don't

6.0s are WAY more common than most people think. Anything over a 7.0 is usually newsworthy unless it's a very shallow 6.0 near a populated area, like the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake.

So you agree with the guy that India hates the US? I don't see the disagreement tbh

If anything this only explains their comment (why Indians hate us)

Just see my other comment

The "party" behind him is constituted entirely of biorobots, bred to press a single button. It is unheard of that they ever rebelled against Orbán. If the party resists that simply means Orbán cast them as the bad guys fir a change. Otherwise they would immediately vote on anything the Glorious Leader says.

A lot of Indians do seem to hate the US and West as a whole, which makes sense.

And whilst you are correct about national interests, that too is served by domestic opinions.

Indians love Russia as they have been cultural but especially great military partners since the cold War, very dependable. So there isn't anyone upset over 90% military dependency upon Russia or relying upon em for crucial imports of certain natural resources (oil, some minerals)

On the other hand, America when being run by our great grandfathers is not reliable at all. In the Col War when India sided with the Soviets USA stupidly thought it smart to side with Pakistan, and then not only underplayed genocide but also sent ships off coast. Soviets responded with nuclear sub, in India's defense.

Hence many Indians (can see them in this thread) as skeptical of any reliance upon the West, even mutually beneficial trade and dealing between private companies.

This is one reason why China is a fast growing trade partner to India, and will likely reap even more gains from Indias growth as it exports massive amounts. Whilst some Indians online claim to hate China more than US, their money sings a different tune and we should pay attention to that.

Doesn't mean give up on India entirely as a partner, but accept it will never join any kind of military alliance and instead the best we might get is a trade deal to reduce their dependence upon China.

Hard to not sign something you had to write: >India, which as chair of the Group of Twenty (G20) economies was hosting a meeting in the city of Bengaluru, was reluctant to raise the issue of the war but Western nations insisted they could not back any outcome that did not include a condemnation.

And they kinda just summarized what was said in the 2 days of talks, which makes it even more silly for China to not sign

Bots be downvoting ya

Fair points. Idk how much it matters in the grand scheme of things but I have followed the Ruble over the last year. Since 8 months ago, its been dropping, and it hasn't stopped. It just reached it's pre-war level and it is still going down. So sanctions are hurting Russia, I wish it would be a faster effect to force Putin to stop the war, but it is hurting Russia.

What u/dikai was getting at was this

Imagine your country relies on products A, B, C, D, etc...

If you sanction A, well now the country needs to switch to B to keep things going smoothly. After a while, when your country has swapped over to B completely, you sanction B. Now that hurts more, and your country needs to scramble harder to fix that problem, so they switch to C, etc...

This is not a perfect analogy, but it explains one of the reasons that sanctions applied over time can hurt more than all the sanctions applied at once.

Also another reason for escalating sanctions as opposed to dropped every sanction known to man at once is to keep some leverage. If you sanction the shit out of Russia with everything all at once, well there is not reason for Russia to listen to you at all since you threw everything at it. But if you do it over time, it leaves you with negotiating power. Even if Putin does not care, many oligarchs may get increasingly nervous with increasing sanctions that hurt them more and more, and that will cause instability.

However, first we need to put a tile on Putin, then have ISS track to that tile. Drop the entire fucking thing right on top of him! Instantly World Peace achieved! LOL

Indians aren't our allies. Just look at the comments by Indians here and on this sub as a whole.

They resent and despise us for the actions undertaken by our great grandfathers and beyond (Cold War) and later (War on terror + Pakistan)

If we ever want Indians to be allies we have to make amends for this and offer an incentive that pulls them away from Russia

But this is very unlikely, as they love Russia and see it as more trustworthy and dependable than the US, and are very wary of relying upon the West in any way.

Its the reason why their trade is growing so fast with China. They may say they hate China, and some reddit people will say they hate both but China more, but economically India imports fucktons from there and its only rising. And due to nations past action, Soviet support and American antagonism, the relationship may be too far gone to salvage

>and 4 from Canada delivered

Are their tanks in Ukraine already? I've seen ny official announcements

Isn’t that a problem ? That you don’t hear certain kind of news at all?

Oh, there'll be boys.

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Two countries without a border going to war, and neither one about to invade the intervening countries just to get land access, and every missile could be a nuke or dirty bomb? That's a lot of incentive to fire your nukes first and try to take out the other side's ability to nuke back. Scary.

Doesn't matter how, the USA spends hundreds of millions to keep it secure.

I recall playing war games with Pakistan and India that were declassified by the CIA dealing with the 70s India VS Pakistan.

It would be a nightmare if some group like the Taliban got a hold of Pakistan's nukes.

India ain't paying for that shit. So we, the USA, do. It's why the ISI is effective.

A nuke sent into India would trigger a nuclear exchange, and China would freak the fuck out.

Erdogan is directly responsible for all the death. His deliberate corruption has led the construction industry to build cheap and charge high, no standards no regulations.

Fuck this dictator and anyone like him on this planet!

I just wanna say this is no surprise. Lula has always been corrupt and out for himself and his cronies. I get that reddit Liberals hate Bolsonaro and all, but Lula is just as bad for the rainforest and just as corrupt if not more corrupt. Stop supporting criminal politicians just because you hate their political rival.

• an actual brazillian who has lived under both Lula and Bolsonaro