While I don’t think that what you’re saying is by any means implausible, there is an actual difference here. All rockets and missiles destroy themselves in the process of attacking a target. Not all drones do. A lot of them have a simple mechanism that drops a grenade or similar
Johnson is a slimy tosspot, and his position on Russia is good only for self-serving reasons. Supporting Ukraine let him act out his little Churchill fantasy and distract from all of his domestic failings
The guy that got “installed” was the leader of the opposition in the parliament, had the backing of a clear majority of the parliament, and had been supportive of the protests. It would be weirder for the Americans to support anyone else
Hamstrung or not, the delivery in that article is 70,000 tonnes of fuel. That’s almost as much as the Russian delivery in the article.
If you want pausable combat and a logistics focus, the Hearts of Iron games might be interesting to you. They’re pseudo-real-time in that things happen on an counter that ticks forward once per in-game hour of the day (so the results of two units fighting, a diplomatic message being sent, construction on a building), but you can speed up, slow down, or pause however you wish. If you want to zip along at a few seconds of real time per day in game, cool. Want to slow things down to a few seconds per in game hour instead? Also fine. Need to pause while you read a description? Also fine.
The US military is currently directly involved in fighting in Yemen and Somalia. It’s relatively small-scale, but it is happening
I’m pretty sure they are only talking about windfarms that would otherwise actually be built
Honestly I don’t think that is necessary to explain this. China is seeing the same issue as western countries with birth rates way below replacement, but it hardly has any of the immigration that mitigates it for (most of) Europe and North America. It’s not easy for an economy to support an ever-increasing proportion of its population being retirees
If it was just that, surely there’d be a rebound visible on the chart after 2016 (8-year-olds and younger)? Instead it falls off even harder
Russia did author this one, and it was in November 2021
Hell even on the issue of Cuba specifically, during his presidency Trump chose to undo the progress Obama had made. He has already made it worse
The EU has absolutely done similar things against American companies before. The Boeing-Airbus saga is a good example
Assuming 0.125%, it’s very roughly 10% of the original total every three months for the first year
I don’t think it is, but at the same time I’m also not sure what else I would call it. I suppose if I’ve got the structure of it right then it is quite analogous to a nail violin
He has a bow in each hand. I think the metal plates on the sides are the component that gets bowed, kinda like a musical saw
Moldova just voted for European integration despite what seems to have been extensive Russian efforts to push it the other way
You quoted me doing exactly that, why are you acting like I didn’t?
Super layman’s explanation ahead, there is a high chance of me getting something wrong here:
Very broadly, inflation can be caused by there being more money to spend than there are goods to buy with it.
If there’s €10 in the system that is available to be spent and an amount of goods that was worth €5 yesterday, the goods are probably going to be worth €10 now.
When a bank gives a loan to someone, it effectively creates new money. This doesn’t need to involve actually making new money in the sense of a mint or even a central bank. If I possess €100 of actual physical cash and I give €50 loans to five people, that’s totally fine so long as I can rely on no more than two of them actually requiring hard cash at a time before they pay me back. So now I have essentially “created” €150 more than there was before. And so long as everyone trusts that I can actually show up with €50 on demand, they can act as if they have the €50.
The central bank’s interest rate is what the central bank will pay me if I keep my €100 deposited with them. If that’s 5%, I’ll have €105 next year. As such, I will only offer loans if I expect to make more than €5 off of them once they are all repaid.
So if the interest rate is 21%, you are gonna need a hell of a business plan to be able to beat what I’d get by just leaving my money with the central bank. I am now unlikely to lend any money unless someone can persuade me that they’ll beat 21%. As such, I’m no longer loaning money out to all of those five people. Only two of them have plans that are that good. Now, there is way less money available to spend than there was in the other scenario, because two people have €50 each instead of five. If the amount of goods to buy stays constant, then by the principal from the very start of this mess there is less inflation. Buyers don’t have more money to spend, and prices remain lower.
It still does. I have no idea why we bother paying articles like this any attention. Then again I suppose it is worth reporting on that it happens generally, and I don’t have any suggestions for how to make news outlets just do an annual summary