My favorite is how they claim that PRC doesn’t invade anyone, ignorant of their attempts in Korea (Korean War) and Vietnam (after the Americans left).

I need this poster or canvas printed so I can hang it on my office wall…

Stupid and unlikely thought I had: The West don’t want Russia to know just how weak it really is against the West so that Russia doesn’t kick itself into high gear trying to truly modernize its forces by eliminating the grift and corruption that plagues its MIC. A Russia plagued by a corrupt military is a Russia that is essentially toothless in an armed conflict.

Of course, this doesn’t excuse not allowing deep Russian strikes with already provided equipment.

I’ll admit I don’t know how Lemmy works in communicating to each other. However, Internet traffic is labeled in some manner. It has to be to ensure data traverses the web of routers we call the Internet. Lemmy instances have to identify each other to share their information to each other.

Just ban whatever traffic Lemmy instances are looking for.

Is my math wrong? Didn’t that guy reporting to Putin say 20km deep and 14km wide? At best, that’s 280 square kilometers. And Ukraine is stating it’s nearly 5x as much. Someone help me here.

Did you read the article? They only said that the process to vote went smoothly, despite all the stations having only one machine for 800 voters, causing long wait times and delays. They don’t mention anything about third party confirmation of the vote tallies, no references to exit polls, and a huge section dedicated to US interference.

Might as well say “Far left organization supports supposedly far left authoritarian governments word without verification.”

The cynic in me says these articles are all about fear mongering to permanently increase spend baselines in the MIC. Another part of me is saying that the industrial shortcomings are great to highlight and beef up now to ensure a deterrence and capacity for any conflict where the US is obligated to participate in (such as Taiwan).

Second grade teacher has the cursive where every letter is a variation of the letter O.

Paywall on the article. Does it say why?

Just like Y to post a click bait, non-informative post. Here’s an article that has more info.https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2280460/shockingly-inept-us-missile-defense-system-had-75-failure-rate-in-iran-attack-on-israel.html

The rate is only for SM-3 missiles that targeted ballistics. Israel also had significantly fewer targets and better preparation for their interceptions.

Japan’s economy is only going to get worse. I don’t think they’ve resolved their population decline and aging demographics.

You should learn context clues to know I was directly commenting on the previous poster about China’s bullying of Philippine fishermen.

As for Kinmen island itself, it is Taiwan’s. The main Kinmen island is 7km from the mainland. The article doesn’t say where the fishermen were in relation to the island.

No… Because China is claiming an island that is nowhere near their internationally recognized borders and on an island they don’t even have people on…

In this case, Chinese fisherman were within Taiwans EEZ. And their boat capsized as they tried to flee.

How did it get so bad? Is there a tl;Dr anywhere that explains it fully?

The article suggests Iran is losing its influence on its proxies. That’s an interesting take, but I wouldn’t hold my breath that it would help simmer things down.

Lots of Chinese seem themselves as white. And plenty of Asians consider lighter skin to mean wealth and upper class.

Plenty of people obviously care. The Pope influences the lives of hundreds of millions directly and indirectly. Especially, people in power who have the ability to enact religiou -based laws that affect everything

They have a patrol fleet there, just like other Navies, to ensure freedom of operations. Speculation is that these vessels are meant to takeover the existing patrol fleets duties, but because of the absence of American vessels, due to Israel, the new Chinese vessels will linger longer, or more permanently.

I feel like it should be community#instance.domain. The @ is already internet common for email addresses. It should be avoided to reference communities.