I assume those take time to set up and get working. China has a number of large cities that get most of their energy from hydro, but late last year there was a big heat wave that caused lower water flow and affected energy production.

They're probably looking to diversify more and need something quick to set up in the meantime, leading to the larger expansion of coal power. Here's an article touching on the heat wave if you're interested:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower

I guess you are both correct because I was very vague in my initial comment. You are correct that for example 100 Hiroshima sized nukes if they were dropped in a desert would not end the world. However those same 100 nukes which are much smaller than what countries are capable of building today if dropped for example in heavily populated areas in Pakistan and India would cause a level of global famine that would bring every country on the planet to its knees, worse than any other famine in world history.

But even that might not be the end of the world to you, the end of the world was a pretty vague way to describe it on my part and for that I'm sorry. I meant more the collapse of everything that we currently rely on to survive. Countries falling apart, countless dead from starvation in even the wealthiest nations of the world, global trade collapsing, resource wars both regional and international, freak weather phenomenon, etc.

And that's not even considering how much more powerful modern nukes are than the one dropped on Hiroshima

That's why you use naval drones to take out ships, not aerial drones. They're much harder to detect, much harder to hit, have very long range and loitering capabilities, and can easily carry a payload big enough to cause major damage to a warship.

They're innovating how they make money lol

Because there's even less appetite among the Belorussian public for getting involved in the war than there is in the urban centres of Russia.

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china needs power

coal is fast but dirty way to get it

only way that's gonna change is if you help china not need the fast coal power anymore or force them at gunpoint

Lol this has CIA written all over it.

After the nuclear war, the world will not look back and blame the people helping Ukraine defend itself. They will 100% blame Russia for starting this war completely unprovoked.

I don't know but it looked realistic until the Steve Jobs stand-in just showed the crowd footage of a robot kill someone who was running away. I imagine if it was real life, there would have been audible gasps.

Manufacturing + a billion people will do that.

Imagine China doubles their coal usage every fifth year. Seas are rising. Hurricanes are a monthly event. Snow caps, what snow caps? Natural disasters threaten the stability of global shipping, coastal cities can't keep up rising the sea walls, widespread droughts are seen as normal, and there is one player contributing more to this than next ten countries combined.

What year is it acceptable to do more than write a strongly worded letter about knocking off the assault on human's race survival?

I mean, there's a couple billion+ people in asia...

Have all the desirable parties sign into Nato II before killing off the original.

Better to live in the future for 10 years than 50 years in the stone age. Developing nations aren't going to give up quality of life improvements.

what are "partisans"? Is this a Belarus separatist group? Is it what we would consider mercenaries if they were shooting at Ukraine planes?

No 100 nukes would not even come close to the end the world. It’s interesting you are so confident about this.

War ain't going to help the global warming problem. And certainly its not going to happen against a nuclear armed nation.

You think the US military hasn't been aware of drones and planned how to defend from and attack with them since before you ever even heard of them?

That's true of any defense, but if the number is high enough then the attack is prohibitive. That's generally also why the high value targets like Carriers are sitting in the center of a web of ships that are all networked together.

Totally agree.

Criticism is good, unless it's being applied unevenly. Keep an eye out for how often posts and comments exclusively call out the First World, while staying mum about the Second. Reddit is rife with this contrarian mentality.

You ever seen mecha Godzilla?

Raise a glass.

400 million... and there was just another article talking about authorities, somewhere in the world, seized over 330 million worth of cocaine. Crazy the difference of worth between drugs and humanitarian aid (albeit the money is nothing for SA to sneeze at)

They tried. He threatened them on a Televised address, saying that if they went forward with wreaking havoc, the massive amount of gang members in jail would no longer be fed and left to starve. It was definitely heavy handed, so much so that the UN spoke for the rights of said gang members, but it avoided the response