The US doesn’t want to ban Chinese products, they just want them to release the data their obtaining from our citizens. China can still operate here but they’ll have to cough up the goods or else they’ll see some bans.

We are actually heavily moving towards the IT sector due to the influx of Russians and Ukrainians.

I'm sure he'll see his way out of a window in a few months, sadly

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100 nukes is not ending the world lol

then so be it

perhaps then europe and the "west" will stop their ineffective barking and actually start biting

> Belarus

ain't doing shit, the military would go AWOL immediately if Lukashenko ordered them into Ukraine.

There shouldn't be any "French military strategy in Africa".

Just leave like Meloni told you.

How much you wanna bet china has sent weapons and will continue to send weapons?

Then don't!

You know they’re lying when they’re accusing the other of misinformation. They want to control the narrative.

> Lukashenko

He is a dead man walking, I see no way out of an early death for him

Wonderful slogan

But... We got a war going on for an year already, and we need solid solutions.

It is important to note here, that 4 is basically the minimum you can have and maintain a constant presence. You drop below 4 and your going to have coverage gaps; in not immediately then intermittently... IIRC at 3 you loose coverage at maintenance intervals and at 2 you can't do 24 hr coverage anymore.

I think you have your cause and effect reversed. It was the countries in Europe that colonized and exploited Africa. Russian and Chinese involvement in Africa (and the Global South in general) was a response to Western exploitation and colonization.

The USSR / Russia have goodwill because they helped Africans expel the colonizers. Mozambique even put the AK-47 on its flag! By no means were the Soviets acting out of benevolence, but nonetheless there is goodwill towards Russia that continues today.

China also has been investing heavily in Africa, and providing developmental aid with more favorable terms, lower interest rates, and often fewer restrictions than Western aid. Again, it's not out of benevolence but it does engender good will towards China.

Classic DARVO.

>This often gets thrown around but this is a misconception based on policy rather than strict rules. There's no rule that says countries with existing territorial conflicts can not join.
>
>The actual condition is that the country must demonstrate the intent to resolve any such conflicts in accordance with international law. Ukraine has met this condition.

Chapter 1.6 of the 1995 Study of NATO Enlargement states:

>States which have ethnic disputes or external territorial disputes, including irredentist claims, or internal jurisdictional disputes must settle those disputes by peaceful means in accordance with OSCE principles. Resolution of such disputes would be a factor in determining whether to invite a state to join the Alliance.

Yup it's literally a army of 1 gang in 1 spot if there's a breakout the gov will need a missile to fix the situation up .

Raise a glass 🍺

The world isn't as simple as you'd like it to be, and even more complex than you imagine.

Barking up the wrong tree there, mate.

Bunch of cry bebe's, heard he lost the big one with that necklace that had the crystal in it back in 2008.

Same time the U.S pres stopped carrying around the football.

Bush Jr. and his "mission accomplished!" farce.

It’s not inevitable that Belarus gets directly involved, and if they do it opens a huge amount of border to defend against. It’s not a border to go across and bring battles towards the Belarus capital, but instead makes the country need much more manpower to defend than currently, which is better spent defending elsewhere and better still - attacking, and taking back land.

So it’s not a war they can push forward on initially - initially it’ll be an attempted massive push by Belarus and Russia. And if Belarus gets directly involved it will be a massive setback, thinning the Ukrainian defence, ruling out the ability to strike back, and minimising the big morale boosts when towns and cities are retaken.

The article says that Russia has no comment on this, but like every single attack on them, they will use it as an opportunity, e.g. find any non-strategic town that the two Belarusians allegedly fled to, then destroy it with barrages for two weeks.

I get the thumping of the chest, the feeling of striking back, and making the enemy power bleed. But it needs to be coordinated with official forces or it risks everything.

There have only been about half a dozen ethnic Palestinians to play in the Israel Basketball Premier League since the first in the late 80s. It’s not very common, which is why her story is such a remarkable one.