Why are there so few posts on worldnews about this and China inviting SA to join BRICS?

Yeah and that's why stuff like big manufacturing and exports is needed. To raise the GDP per capita.

And while boon of high population is higher export numbers, its bane is that GDP per capita growth is slower.

But you'll ignore that, of course. Cos mom's basement feels nicer that way.

"like the West want to bleed Russia dry. Ukraine will get bleed out as well."

Russia, and only Russia, are the ones bleeding Ukrainians dry. Russians are also going out of their way, by multiple time zones, to bleed themselves dry.

Generally population is a benefit, as in the case of China, which has the same population. After all more people = more people to generate GDP, which is why China has the world's second largest GDP.

India... well population appears to hit differently in India.

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Look at the population numbers too dumbass.

It costs an arm to fix a leg in the US.

The sheer amount of vile hate India receives on reddit always surprises me. It's truly the nation and ethnicity everyone is allowed to be racist to. Atleast China is feared, hope India reaches the same place.

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Russia stole some islands from Japan north of the mainland after WW2 and their ownership of them was never ratified by post war treaties. Russia offered some of the smaller ones back in exchange for Japan to acknowledge the larger ones belonged to them but Japan turned them down and maintains that they're rightfully Japanese.

With Japan building up the (formerly?) JDF and Russia very much with their hands full and their pockets empty it could be that Russia wants to demonstrate a show of force in the area to deter any attempts for Japan to take back their land.

....not that Russia could even hope to begin to support a fight off their eastern coast...but y'know...Russia and optics and shit.

Sure would be entertaining to watch them try though.

Trick is to sell right before the crash: "CEO Greg Becker sold over $3.5 million in company stock, an SEC filing shows. Less than two weeks before Silicon Valley Bank became the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, top executives at the company sold stock totaling several million dollars, according to federal disclosures obtained by ABC News"

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

> Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in strikes and protests Tuesday in the tenth day of action since January against reforms of the country's pension system.

> The Interior Ministry said it expected disorder at Tuesday's protests and had deployed 13,000 police - 5,500 of them in Paris - to counter it.

> The change is opposed by trade unions and the majority of people but Macron, who has made reform of the country's generous pension system the cornerstone of his presidency, says the country cannot afford the ballooning deficits it will run up over the next 25 years as the country's population ages.

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Jesus, I agree with both of your points. Keep talking.

The police are the armed paramilitary for capital owners. They are literally only protecting those who benefit them in this situation and most situations.

Depositors got made whole, largely through asset sales and their deposits being bought by other banks.

I have as yet to hear of anyone getting investigated for insider trading, which they should, or negligence or wilful malfeasance, which they also should.

And the bank wasn't bankrupt. But I've explained this as far as I care to; go read some background reporting instead of spouting off silly sound bites.

Didn't svb stockholders lose everything?

The BEST lumbar support. Unfortunately, after a small explosion your lumbar is now 100 meters from your skull.

>MANILA, March 28 (Reuters) - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Tuesday said he would cut off contact with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it rejected an appeal asking it to stop investigating his predecessor's lethal war on drugs.

>Thousands of Filipinos, mainly low-level dealers and users, were killed by police during Rodrigo Duterte's fierce crackdown on illicit drugs, with many more gunned down in mysterious circumstances.

>The ICC is investigating widespread allegations by human rights groups and victims of systematic executions and cover-ups by police, who say they killed suspects only in self-defence.

>"That ends all our involvement with the ICC .... At this point, we essentially are disengaging from any contact, any communication," Marcos told reporters when asked about the appeal, which was rejected this week.

>"We cannot cooperate with the ICC considering the very serious questions about their jurisdiction and about what we consider to be interference and practically attacks on the sovereignty of the republic."

>The ICC is a court of last resort that can exercise jurisdiction if states are unable or unwilling to investigate crimes. The Philippines has argued its own institutions are capable of prosecuting crimes.

>As international criticism mounted, Duterte unilaterally withdrew the Philippines from the ICC's founding treaty in 2018. The treaty stipulates the ICC can investigate crimes that took place while a country was a member.

>The court in January granted its prosecutor's request to reopen an investigation into the killings, having suspended the probe in November 2021 at Manila's request after it said it was carrying out its own investigations.

>Duterte has repeatedly said he gave no instruction to kill, other than in self-defence. He has said he is willing to go on trial over his drugs war, but only in a Philippine court.

>His daughter, Sara Duterte, is currently vice president and was the running mate of Marcos.

>Most of the components that make up Iranian Shahed drones are made by Western countries, which can be bought on Aliexpress.

Regardless of whose side they are on, that is pretty ingenious and resourceful

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Rapist and murderer.

looks like most of the bulk is the engine... does that look like a beefed up scooter engine??

Why must you people always make things personal? I think it's because on some level you know that angry confrontation is all you have, or maybe it's just that people drawn to violence tend to lack in... other areas.

What do you think?

And probably cheaper to manufacture in the same way a full size computer is cheaper to build than a similarly powerful laptop. Why waste money keeping things compact if the final mission for the device is kamikaze anyway.