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sb_747 t1_ja7wqx1 wrote

> Not saying you’re wrong, but there’s good reason to doubt businesses when they say the solution to pollution is dilution.

But it isn’t just a business.

It’s every nuclear authority on the planet saying it’s safe.

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spiteful_rr_dm_TA t1_ja7w5tq wrote

Wow you really don't understand immigration laws. Let me make this simple and clear:

Countries do give visas for immigrants... a fixed number of them. I don't know of any first world country that hands out unlimited visas. You also have to have skills to apply for a visa; the whole point of visas is you are bringing people to your country that will make your country stronger, letting in someone who is a subsistence farmer in subsahara Africa will not strengthen your country enough to win out over a talented programmer from the same country. Then there is the time constraint, visas can take years.

So if you are not one of the people who got to apply, or were rejected because you didn't have a skill that the host country wants, or you didn't want to wait another 3 years before going, then your only choice is to sneak into the country. That is what these people are doing. They are not all asylum seekers, they are economic immigrants. Sure they will claim asylum if discovered, but that is only to invoke international protections that prevent immediate deportation.

These people are economic migrants that bring much of what they are trying to escape to the Western World. They do not have the objective of properly immigrating and integrating, and they are not true asylum seekers. The best thing Europe can do is realize that this is no longer working, and start sending the ships back around.

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GreenStrong t1_ja7vpwl wrote

From the article:

>One of the nine Awacs of the Russian aerospace forces worth $330m (was destroyed),

It is a big flying radar platform. In a modern air force, which Russia never had, it serves as the eyes of the entire force, identifying hostile and friendly aircraft at great distances. Ground based radars are limited by the curvature of the earth; they can't see over the horizon. The fact that Russia only had nine to start with is absurd.

It seems like they're trying to develop a new one, and hoping to introduce it to service in 2026. It will probably be like their T-14 tank, which was "completed" in 2014, and so far hasn't entered general production as an actual weapon.

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Jefethevol t1_ja7v209 wrote

they better preorder 1.5 million body bags if that ragtag group of unmotivated civilians are forced into armed conflict. it will be a slaughter. Like the time those Russian mercs decided to roll up on an american FOB in Iraq/Syria. The US asked Russia if the convoy was theirs...the russians denied it and the US went scorched earth on the russian mercs. total slaughter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/middleeast/american-commandos-russian-mercenaries-syria.html

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