Poor driver. Just tell him to take the bus.

I never said you wanted Chinese boots on the ground. I just said that China sees nothing to gain from shaking the hornets nest that is the Palestinian question at all. That includes making a statement.

Diplomatically China has little to gain from “challenging” the status quo. Even if it’s with something as small as a statement.

If they wanted to they obviously would have by now.

Because China has everything to lose, and very little to gain from shaking the hornets nest. Would it be the moral and correct thing to do to get involved? Yes. But China sees little to no point in risking its position for essentially nothing in return.

Mom said it’s my turn with the economic prosperity.

I love when my package delivery ICBM smashes into a major metropolitan area and kills thousands just so I can get my 45 cent Landfill-ready Alibaba product in an hour.

But you post this as a source, which quite literally states that the growth is coming from oil exports, and increasingly high levels of government spending (One can only wonder towards what). So is the source wrong?

If you go the IMF source this is drawing from, along with the Carniege Endowment shudder, both those sources that the BBC are drawing from describe the increase as coming from surging prices in oil and government investment into the MIC.

This increase also follows nearly a year of negative GDP growth in 2022, so if anything, Russia is simply regaining already lost ground.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009056/gdp-growth-rate-russia/

Doesn’t massive investment into the military present generate an enormous, but false, short-term economic boost that quickly dissipates as the military has very little economic follow-through?

Bad Soviet-Afghanistan vibes though.

Extremely likely that all the Nazis go into the woods and marshes and launch a guerrilla and terror campaign.

Would be a wonderful next step…

But even your source says:

or for his life

The argument this is making is that if you sentence a person for 20-40 years, then they’ll be entirely unable to reintegrate back into society once they finish their term; so there’s no point giving someone with an armed robbery charge 25 years, as you inevitably do more social harm then good.

So we’re still back at square one as even your source states that you might as well imprison someone for life.

Also, the source isn’t arguing for or against the death penalty, and they explicitly state that they don’t want to make a stance on it. Instead, they’re saying that a judge should either sentence for 10 years or under, or simply execute a person as there is no societal difference between 25 years in prison or death.

Wouldn’t life in prison be a better option under socialism/communism instead of the death penalty? I understand the reasoning, but I don’t really see the purpose in executing someone in general, especially over such a crime.

“Setting an example”. Wouldn’t life in prison accomplish the same exact thing?

Why not just let them rot?

Aquilae…. Would you mind explaining to the class what happens in 2026 in the Star Trek timeline?

Yes, as they did it mainly out of survival and wanting to “please their new masters” as the vast majority came from POW and concentration camps. Few were probably true ideological Nazies, they were just scum.

They were seen as useful idiots and often given insane and suicidal tasks because they were disposable.

Shouldn’t they be extremely suspicious of an unscheduled random civilian plane crossing the border of an active war zone and refusing all radio contact while approaching a military base?

Would they even face Russian air defense? F-16’s are fast and nimble interceptors and area defense fighters, meaning they would be in the rear defending against Russian CAS, bombers, cruise missiles, and drones. They are more a defensive weapon then an offensive one, and their offensive capabilities are not that strong since that’s not their foray. Yes you can strap bombs to them, but that’s not their purpose.

This means that either the US has CIA agents embedded in the Ukrainian high command, someone in the Ukrainian high command is dirty and is sending the US vital information Agent Werther style, or the US itself carried out or authorized the attack using Ukrainian assets.

On the other hand, if Ukraine is uninvolved, then the US has either propped up their own little terror group, or given some remnants of ISIS the resources to carry out this attack, and any communication as to how the US knew about the attack would blow their plausible deniability.

Exactly 0 of these possibilities are good, and the US has dug itself an enormous hole. This is going to absolutely blow up in the US’ face.

Oh lmao, it just threw me for a loop because I was not expected a headline of “Woman thinks hat bobble is hedgehog” lmaoo

Sorry about that

That’s not the BBC, that’s BBC Manchester, or in other term, local news. They aren’t going to be writing articles on geopolitical tensions and China.

But do you think that Chinese news doesn’t do human interest or lighthearted articles?

Wouldn’t a better representation be a link to the front page? A random article about a person taking care of a hat bobble in Cheshire (while hilarious and did make me giggle), isn’t really breaking news international news.

Happy to help : )

Partisans, guerrillas, insurgents, resistance fighters, and militia are all essentially the same thing. They are soldiers or civilians that become combatants, but not part of a dedicated outfit in a nations armed forces.

Symmetric warfare has soldiers operate in organized groups, with dedicated logistics and supply and support companies, that communicate and work together with other squads, divisions, battalions, etc usually along a defined battle line. This is your typical “army”.

Asymmetrical warfare is designed to hurt the enemy where small groups can do it best. In the example of Soviet partisans, they did not fight the German army directly. They blew up bridges, ambushed convoys, derailed trains, destroyed communications networks, undertook assassinations, committed various forms of sabotage, and executed small scale raids, etc.

Asymmetrical fighters are usually soldiers that have been cut off behind enemy lines, or civilians that take up arms against occupations. They are small and isolated, which makes them difficult to root out and destroy.

Such fighters are meant to operate in secret. They strike and then disappear, either by going into hiding or blending in with the civilian population. Which is why counter partisans usually punished local civilians for partisan action.