I follow the progress of the war via the Rondeli Russian Military Digest: https://gfsis.org.ge/russian-monitor/view/3225 They publish a map usually every day: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lscRK6ehG0l2V-XvJ16nsyblMsQ&ll=48.88186869084407%2C38.00453445920235&z=13 I download t...
Jump to postLet's throw something else in the mix, as some had already mentioned India and China in what they are doing or not doing to support Ukraine. If those two nations who also have industrial capacity continue to purchase cheap, discounted Russian oil, will they see a rise in their export business as th...
Jump to postThe US was right in insisting on more defense spending in Europe, however it was wrong in the way to convey that message, hence results didn't happen. The major opposition to an EU defense didn't help, of course. After the dismal show the Russian army is putting in Ukraine all this talk about incre...
Jump to postSome people have been watching too many Hollywood movies. A foreign (and to some extent domestically orchestrated) assassination is exactly what nobody wants. That would give certain factions a reason to retaliate against the West, while the whole organizational structure of the country could collap...
Jump to postI was watching the German ZDF evening news (which tilts a bit right-of-center in its news coverage), and they had a former German and NATO general Egon Ramms, who in responding to a question about the request for quote "help" by the Inspector of the Army to beef up the German Army, said t...
Jump to postI don’t see Russia becoming irrelevant or collapsing. It’s economy may suffer and the sanctions will hurt, but that doesn’t mean the country will fail. Economically the country has a healthy balance sheet and large foreign reserves. It will profit from record high prices for oil and gas, while the w...
Jump to postNow is the best time to buy oil stocks. Just like Tobacco they will become uninvestable for pensions funds and endowments, keeping their stock prices relatively low. And while oil firms will be unwilling/unable to finance new exploration (due to public pressure) limiting oil supply, demand will be r...
Jump to postFirst of all, United Russia's election results do not equal Putin's approval ratings. Look at historical opinion polls for that. Anyone that claims that is trying to throw in propaganda or is simply incompetent. Secondly, United Russia's election results of nearly 50% pretty much match public opini...
Jump to postI don’t view Germany after WW2 as nation building. The whole idea of Germany as a nation (yes with somewhat different borders), institutions and even democracy (for a short period after WW1) already existed. Additionally you had multiple German intellectuals which already discussed the German nation...
Jump to postWell for one Nation Building is something that takes generations. For people who have lived in a completely different systems for decades, to develop an identity for a new nation and understand how separation of power, democracy or basic human rights work (because that is what the West generally pus...
Jump to postThis is the point where External Operations (Ex-Ops) attacks, or proliferation of same to other groups willing to conduct Ex-Ops (read: Terror Attacks!) on US or allied interests at home and abroad become a terminal and viable threat. Personally I never thought islamic terrorism per se to be an exi...
Jump to postBy initiating an exit from Afghanistan, Trump did what previous administrations refused to do because nobody wanted to (and apparently some still don’t want to) admit that the whole Afghanistan expedition was doomed from the beginning. By negotiating a “peace” deal, or whatever one may call it, the ...
Jump to postTime to build a beautiful wall on the US-Canada border
Jump to postIn the end everybody should decide himself whether he takes the shot. As a young person the risk of having serious effects from COVID is very low and with more and more people vaccinated, you can “freeride” on herd immunity. But the more people who do this, the less well it works. Agree, that is th...
Jump to postI don’t see why you should change your GP. I do find it strange that she is against your mother and grandmother being vaccinated, but simply being against the vaccination doesn’t make you some kind of wingnut. I have quite a few respectable friends who work as doctors or in the pharmaceutical indust...
Jump to postLol, seizure of foreign assets and terrorist state. A lot of talk... Don't remember anything like that happening when Russia poisoned Skripal on NATO soil or the the recent revelations regarding the explosions in the Czech Republic... The US has no real interest in being involved in this mess and th...
Jump to postEU officially calling it a hijack now in a statement from Von der Leyen. a) What Lukashenko has learned from Putin is that the EU is a toothless organisation. b) There will be a discussion and maybe some sanctions from the EU and US and that's it. At this point Lukashenko hardly cares and honestly ...
Jump to postWho knows, maybe AZ will have something good in 2022 and 2023… since AZ doesn´t work on mRNA vaccines as far as we know ..... Just shows how decision making at the EU is made. yup, "this companies reliability killed thousands of people in the EU, we won´t risk that again" is the sort of c...
Jump to postOk, as I said I’m not a big fan of the whole lab theory, but I found the article interesting.
What is your opinion about the subsection “Comparing the Rival Scenarios of SARS2 Origin” in the article?
Wait till the modalities and consequences of the EU lawsuit against them are fully understood... Not only their corporate reputation is completely trashed by their scandalous behaviour, also their balance sheet: the EC will make sure it really hurts. All for the sake of a few tens of millions of ja...
Jump to postThe next next AZ shareholder meeting could be fun :D Wait till the modalities and consequences of the EU lawsuit against them are fully understood... Not only their corporate reputation is completely trashed by their scandalous behaviour, also their balance sheet: the EC will make sure it really hu...
Jump to postWhatever that was is no longer there. It's still there for me? Maybe it's region blocked? I did not read the full article, it's a stretch of text longer then the combined Harry Potter works. It's final two sentences should give you an indication: The common sense perception that a pandemic breaking...
Jump to postProbably because the A340 mod was planned and finalized around 2016 (?) and premium eco was not up for discussion back then. If I remember correctly the actual implementation took ages (2020) because some seats or parts or whatever were massively delayed…
Jump to postI just leave this here:
https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin- ... f03564c038
In the end it seems that Osama Bin Laden was a true mastermind. With 9/11 he caused a reaction from the US that was much more detrimental to the nation then the attack itself. Not only did more soldiers die in Afghanistan and Iraq (if you see that campaign as an extension of the war on terror) then ...
Jump to postMass shootings in the US, that are not islamist inspired (i.e. the majority), seem to be socially acceptable. If the attack is somehow connected to islamists, the whole nation goes crazy, every agency sends its incompetent bureaucrats (or special agents, because that sounds better) to the scene, and...
Jump to postIt is frightening how much the EU is dependant on Russia. You could turn that around: it’s frightening how much Russia is dependant on Europeans buying their gas. But while the EU is (slowly) moving away from fossil fuels, the same can not be said for Russia. There's always energy hungry China. So ...
Jump to postIt all feels rather tenuous and political in nature at the moment and more about deflecting attention away from how the centralised EU vaccine program is very very poorly managed. Correct. The incompetent EU had one major chance to show how marvelous their whole centralized project is and they scre...
Jump to postAbsolutely correct to reject the vaccine. Would you want to be implanted with a 5G chip and be controlled by Bill Gates/Soros and Co?
Jump to postMaking numbers is good and all that but you're ignoring the elephant in the room. How do you vaccinate people that don't want to be vaccinated? (not with what you have available, at least). https://www.europe1.fr/societe/covid-pourquoi-lastrazeneca-est-il-un-vaccin-boude-par-les-medecins-4025998 ht...
Jump to postWow, in France and Germany there is an incredibly low uptake of the AZ vaccine: https://www.ft.com/content/767fdd85-5329-479d-b565-4ec85d28b492 After battling with AstraZeneca over shipment delays, and even casting doubt over its Covid-19 jab’s efficacy, EU countries are seeing stocks of the compan...
Jump to postFair enough, I’m still wondering If that justifies winter proofing energy infrastructure (costwise).
Jump to postTexas is out of power due to an amazingly short sighted policy regarding grid reliability, which seems to be the guiding principle for US power grids in general and the reason why their power is about as reliable as in plenty of 3rd world nations. best regards Thomas Correct I me if I’m wrong, but ...
Jump to postSo what? This is about mobility. These are two high dense cities with lots of economic ties and major tourist destinations. Southwest probably can use their planes on other routes rather than throw money at LA to the Bay area routes. Along with other airlines. COVID is changing the prospect of LA a...
Jump to postJust because it is non-essential doesn't mean it doesn't have to be regulated, does it? :checkmark: Plus of course it is regulated by member states in any case, so this is just about harmonization, not the EU having a new idea..... best regards Thomas Indeed. Nobody wants to spend hours reading up ...
Jump to postI'm no supporter of the UK Government and the way it's handled the pandemic and neither am I a Brexiteer. But it seems there is a whole lot of butt-hurt in the EU because the UK chose not to partake in the EU vaccination procurement program. As a result, mostly because it was able to move quicker b...
Jump to postNothing new here, the EU is a hostage of the agricultural lobby. Just have a look how 35% of their budget goes towards farming.
It’s particularly ridiculous to see how governments subsidies (and promote) environmentally damaging and unhealthy diets, such as dairy and meat products.
AZ signed a contract specifically stating they have no colliding obligations, I.e. they put in writing there is no contract with the UK. And that is fraud, under German law it would also be murder, under the applicable Belgium law it is apparently, and unfortunately, only manslaughter. Have you see...
Jump to postInteresting read: https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-planning-disaster-germany-and-europe-could-fall-short-on-vaccine-supplies-a-3db4702d-ae23-4e85-85b7-20145a898abd Lol especially regarding the scaleback of Pfizer (successful) to match the order for Sanofi (French). I assume that’s wha...
Jump to postdtw2hyd wrote:Robinhood didn't live up to its name, ended up robbing Paul to pay Peter.
Even better is that if people just hold on to their shares many hedgefunds will go bankrupt. :house: The fact that you’d be happy about this is frankly disturbing. There are more people on the losing end of a hedge fund imploding than just the manager, and most of them don’t drive Ferraris. Not eve...
Jump to postOnce Europe has recolonialized North Africa, they will build tons of solar plants to power Europe (Electricity and Hydrogen).
Jump to postAny reason why fuel dumps (here and in general) seem to be conducted over uninhabited areas (or is that they just go to less busy air spaces?).
I would have said the fuel evaporates or the wind blows it far away before reaching ground in some form...
Probably just big tech companies trying to please the Democrats. Highly probable that congress will crack down on them...
Jump to postWhere were all the tough guy cops from the American Action movies who protect the politicians? Have they already been defunded or this just incompetence?
Jump to postAn airline from a small country with a relatively impotent economy fails (after being kept alive for too long with the help of the government). Doesn’t this happen every year somewhere else...
Jump to postI do think that some people will think again about visiting HK or transiting there. I also think that HK as an international finance hub has lost some appeal. That doesn't mean that Cathay won't be flying pre-Covid routes again, but the whole political events (both in HK and the general US-China ten...
Jump to postNavalny and Bellingcat get paid from the same ( convoluted path ) sources. Are you aware that Navalny was in coma? So we've been told. compare: Zitronenfalter falten Zitronen. So now I’m curious, what actually did happen to Navalny? I am open to hear a Tom Clancy version as well as a Gregor Gysi ve...
Jump to postSo what is a „usual place“ for food to come from?
Jump to postI don't know why some people see McCain as some saint. Sure, I respect him for what happened to him as a soldier in Vietnam, but overall I see him as a hawkish guy who would have started a lot of those US interventions that end up failing. As the general public wanted some kind of payback after 9/11...
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