I don’t think we (Europe) should wait for USA, Trump could also decide to end all US aid to Ukraine, which I personally find more likely.
He would then claim it as a victory, for saving tax payer money, despite he is undermining American interests internationally, and aiding Russia that is an obvious enemy to USA.
Trump is compromised, all his actions regarding international affairs show this.
It’s sad IMO, that allies have not responded to the escalation from Russia using North Korean soldiers.
I’m not saying we must send soldiers to the front, but I’m sure Ukraine could use some help with maintenance of the western equipment for instance.
Allegedly one of the reasons it took so long to get F16 to Ukraine, was the training of ground crews. I think under the current circumstances, we can easily justify helping Ukraine with such things now.
The Russian economy is absolutely overheating, the Russian central bank interest rate is 21%, so nobody borrow below that.
There are news about increasing rates of bankruptcies of Russian companies, in part caused by these high interest rates and inflation.
The inflation staying high, makes it likely that another increase by the central bank will happen before the end of the year.
There are also news about Russia laying off a massive 10% of government workers.Probably due to worker shortages and state budget deficits.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/11/russia-preparing-mass-government-layoff-a86976
So Russia is already having major economic problems, and they will get worse in 2025.
Russia is trying to take back Kursk, and is failing badly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-7ErrJ9G4
That’s true, it’s insane but it’s still true.
Who needs tanks when you got North Koreans?
Well I haven’t seen that as something widespread, but maybe I tend to ignore it?
Most here are very much against Russian war crimes, so it’s a double standard if they support Ukraine doing it.
But there have been actions taken by Ukraine that have been called war crimes by the Russians, which are not. Russia is trying to create a false equivalence.
Be careful not to fall for that either.
Funny how war crimes are assumed, I’m obviously talking about militarily valid targets.
But yes you are right, committing war crimes will only lead to Russians wanting revenge.
Why so low? in the 70’s we (Denmark) had a 4% budget for foreign aid! Later reduced to 2%, but we can do more if we want.
If we were actually directly at war with Russia, we would likely spend 25% maybe more on it.
Surely Europe can give more than 0.5% to stop Russia terrorizing Europe.
Clearly Europe and allies need to step up the game, now that we can’t expect more help from USA efter January.
We also need to do more against Hungary and Slovakia for being traitors to EU. That should not be allowed to go unpunished.
Ukraine is entitled both legally and morally to have their land back including Crimea.
Trumps advisor is talking like a Russian puppet.
It would be nice to see those missiles bring some of the heat of the war to Russia.
“One people, one nation, one ruler!”
To be fair, how is a school teacher supposed to know that’s a Nazi slogan, just because it’s common knowledge? /s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery_03.shtml
I suspect Putin hopes that Ukraine will be more willing to compromise, if he keeps the pressure high, and Zelenskyy has no hope of aid from USA when Trump takes over.
But I think Zelenskyy knows or suspects that Russia is just as hard pressed internally as Ukraine is now, if not more.
But Iran may slow down sending more material to Russia, because now Israel is much more likely to attack them, because Trump will very likely give the green light when he becomes president.
Ah yes, every year every grade gets a little bit easier, because everybody can just take what’s been done all the previous years.
I listened to this crap about “stealing knowledge” when Japan rose like a rocket among international economies, the song is always the same, and it’s completely ignorant of the fact that ALL rising economies did it on the knowledge of others. But probably none more than USA.
There is nothing wrong with that, and now USA has advanced far beyond the technologies they originally inherited from Europe.
And China is doing the same now, just like Japan did half a century ago.
Yes they are even stealing more advanced technologies from us than we have, I don’t know how they do it, it’s quite amazing. /s
I don’t see how China can be prevented in becoming a global leader in many or even most industries and technologies. The more important they are, the greater the likelihood that China will take the lead, because they will make greater effort.
As I see it, China has the economy, educational system, people and leadership to achieve it.
USA has better economy, but lacks in leadership, and can’t even maintain their infrastructure properly.
India has similar population, but is behind on economy and education.
Europe lacks in population and leadership, and is somewhat hampered by language barriers.
The only way to prevent Chinese dominance in the future, would be for USA, EU and allies to pull together. But there is zero political commitment in that direction, and with the election of Trump, I don’t see that changing for at least the next 4 years. And without it, China will soon become undisputed economic industrial and technological leader of the world, because they have ALL the necessary ressources, and make the necessary political decisions followed up with economic incentives.
China is doing this in every key area, while USA is trying politically only in ONE SINGLE AREA!! (chips)
There is no doubt who has the political leadership for the future.
PS:
I am absolutely not a fan of China and their 1 party system, or their foreign policies ATM, they have become more aggressive in international politics and against their neighbors.
I am warning against letting China get too far ahead, just like we were many that warned about Trump. And probably with the same result.
For a terrorist state, this is a mild incident. But maybe it will help to show that Israel is not a lawful state. Making it easier to understand that they are not acting lawfully in many other areas.
I don’t think NATO is dead, but NATO allies can’t rely on USA, and USA was by far the biggest military force in NATO.
Everything else was mostly built to support American forces, which in case of an article 5 situation is the commander of the NATO forces.
It’s not just about the next 4 years, we can’t base our defense on a country we can only rely on for 4 years at a time.
There were already problems with Bush Jr. then Trump once, and now Trump again.
You’d have to be insane to believe this is just a one or two off, and things will get back to normal.
Normalcy regarding NATO ended already with Bush.
The times where USA was the deciding factor in most world policies, because USA was backed up by the majority of the global economy is over.
USA loses just as much as Europe and many other US allies. Trump said our so called friends are our true enemies. Trump believes Canada, UK, EU etc are enemies, and he has said directly that Russia and China are “not so bad”. Despite Russia is invading in Europe, and threatening nuclear war, and China is behaving ever more aggressively in the China sea and against Taiwan, and in general against their neighbors.
calculating every SHA256 of all MACs
Yes but because I don’t have the folder it reads myself, I can’t see what actually encoded. Are you sure /etc/machine-id is ONLY the MAC address?
Absolutely, Trump is an obvious flaming narcissist completely without conscience.
Couldn’t agree more, USA as a society is mentally ill, they’ve been indoctrinated about personal freedom to a degree where half the population consider sociopathy as a virtue.
It was 19 today, but still pretty crazy.