Wars are won with boots on the ground. But since this is a "special military operation", not a war, Russia didn't know this and thus sent her best 100,000 soldiers to perish there for want of adequate equipment, training and strategy.

I don't know what makes me angrier - the death of Russians invaders who died in vain but for the most part had no choice, or the death of Ukrainians who chose to defend their homeland and died for a noble cause.

We should be even more grateful for the journalists that go out and get info for us while we sit our fat asses in front of our screen, shouldn't we ?

South Africa keep voting for them🤷‍♀️

For real. This comment has nothing to do with the article. The article is speaking of China's belt and road initiative for developing countries' infrastructure investments. Not US-based citizen credit/debt cycles.

Isn’t it the other way around? Warring nations but aside their differences for 2 weeks to participate in the games. That was the original intention. Not that I want Russia at the games but literally, that’s what the Olympics did.

That's disappointing.

Wasn't Stanfords Alpaca trained using GPT?

Yes I think it was: Researchers train a language model from Meta with text generated by OpenAI's GPT-3.5 for less than $600

Are you a beyblade? Because your spin is excellent

Are we talking about electrical energy or end use energy?

Nice. Taiwan next.

I think you underestimate how many people it actually takes to farm with no equipment and no real productive land

I do agree with you tho

They are a blight on the diggers. Send the guilty away for a long time.

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It is definitely irresponsible towards China’s predatory strategy of dominating these developing nations. It may blow up the whole Chinese plan to make these nations slaves of China.

as if the majority of people isn't driven by money, power and status as well. exploitation is as old as human history and no one is innocent - we all contribute our share to human suffering. as for BRICS overtaking Western GDP let's see what happens a couple of decades down the road when climate change has had a chance starting to erode wide areas around the equator or sea levels start rising requiring tremendous investments to reallocate major urban areas. once people start dying like flies because corruption won't help you escape heat, drought, rain, storms, poverty, bad infrastructure and solve the problems of a lack of food and water supply we will see how BRICS are going to help each other. when everything goes to shit everyone turns on everyone, that is the only truth about human civilisation, doesn't matter what direction of the compass points at you.

also: gdp on itself is meaningless as a value for comparison. you compare gdp per capita. BRICS have a lot of catching up to do.

Yes he does and when he stands next to Alexander Lukashenko

Putin always looks small nowadays

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Isn't the whole fact that north Korea is starving that they wanted out from under the Soviets and didn't want an outside connection for their people. seems like a good way to bring their system down when they realise they would be better off and less hungry with contact with the outside world

Holy shit Reddit discussion on anything is really just… so bad

or america arrests a bunch of Russian journalists instead on accusations of spying, considering their diplomatic staff is basically nothing but spies, probably not too far a leap.

But who are we kidding, Russia places no value on the lives of their own, so Putin wouldn't care...

They learned from the best. Loan money, raise interest rates, debt becomes unsustainable, implement a structural adjustment program, privatize a nations resources for pennies on the dollar and massively reduce the cost of local labor. If they don't comply either install a government who will or hyper inflate their currency and lock them out of the global economy until they bend the knee. --The US way.

Yes, because they are the only two countries in the world

Brazil has tried to do this with its main trading partners

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China invaded Korea when it crossed the Korean border and attacked Korean and UN forces in October of 1950.

UN forces were involved in the Korean War until the day of the armistice and did not complete their withdrawal from the peninsula until 1956. So besides being completely wrong, I'm not even certain of them point you're attempting to make.

USSR explicitly authorized NK's invasion of Korea, so not much changed i guess, except they won't make the dumb mistake of boycotting the security council.