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Agree. That saudi Iran is a very big and life changing policy between these countries. Youdon't see much positive news outside the West, especially their adversary. That why tiktok congress hearing news also don't show up here (well with very less upvote, less visibility) .

So a dollar a day and a porcelain toilet after 10 yrs

This is the consequence of American “I’m Irish because my great great grandfather was” attitude seen in motion. Both are clearly British.

They aren't affected

Not quite. They main damage comes from explosives. That “bulk” is useless.

To me (not an expert in the slightest) it seems to have been designed with parts similar to small commercial propeller planes. Most likely because the machinery and parts for such vehicles already exists and would be far cheaper to produce.

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You're totally right. Other countries don't have crime.

The military committed a genocide under her government and then she denied the genocide, never happen. Now they dissolved her political party, im gonna deny that her party has never been dissolved. Everything is fine.

Alibaba is like amazon kinda.

They don't actually manufacture most of the shit they sell.

Who has the more to gain by decredibilising protests with violence?

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It's not a war though. Tear gas are the least of worries. Riot guns and grenades are the dangerous ones

I don't see any rioters with body armor and batons?

Blessed

You're right to feel the way you do. Russia decided to spend all of its money building missles to counter US ABM systems instead of its actual military and it's amounted to what? I can nuke you better than you can nuke me? Oxymoron.

On paper the Russian ballistic missle fleet is easily the largest and most capable in the world. This is borne from necessity, as all of their existing missles suddenly became much less reliable due to aforementioned ABM system. So they rolled out Yars, Bulava, SARMAT II, Kinzhal, Iskander, Avangard, and Zircon. New missles built after 2000. Limited quantities but deployed in respectable numbers none the less. Some not fully deployed yet and no doubt affected by sanctions. Plus they got their old stocks, what still works anyway.

How many new missles by America entered into active service since 70s? Zero. They field two missles. Minuteman and Trident since the cold war, plus the world's most formidable bomber fleet. Missles have been updated but max at 3 MIRV. Bulava and Yars 6 to 10 MIRV. Russia has a bomber fleet but they'd never make it past water. It's all missles for them.

The Russians know that to hit the north American fortress it will either take massive quantities of missles and warheads to ensure they get through or missles that could theoretically defeat ABM today and near future. Whether they can or not, or whether they work as intended, is up for speculation but that's it on paper.

You’re right but they are just predicting the future, probably accurately based on historic precedent.

Peoples livelihoods depend on those inanimate things, so yea

Pretty sure modern society would collapse, unfortunately.

Because the French government is smart.

There are two large groups spared by the pension reform, the police and truck drivers.

One of these groups protects the government's power, while the other can paralyze the country in just a few days.

This is very, very wrong. The drone weighs 200 kg and travels at about 50m/s. Let's say in a dive it could reach 100m/s (it can't but let's pretend it does). That would be 1MJ of kenetic energy total. C4 has about 1.5MJ of energy per kg. There's about 30-50 kg of explosives total. The kenetic energy is absolutely dwarfed by the explosive energy. And every kg of engine you have is a kg of explosive you don't have.

Good. Italian meats and cheeses are too delicious to be threatened by tech crap. I can only imagine lab-grown stuff never being at all a close contender though. It would just harm profit and reduce the amount of good stuff that is produced. It would likely only drive a further wedge between people who get to eat real quality ingredients and people who get to 'indulge' in stuff that is just a simulacra of a burger

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But think about how this could be used. Let’s say an extremist manages to build one of these, realistically who’s gonna shoot it down before it crashes into a crowded building, busy road, power grids, etc? Unless the FBI and homeland security was already on their ass, I don’t see anybody stepping up to do it until it’s too late.

For all that talk about exploited labor, I can't imagine Americans working assembly lines for these devices. Foxconn has had a high suicide rate from monotonous -almost robotic assembly lines.