about time

Unit Cost: $56.5 million (includes four aircraft with sensors, ground control station and Predator Primary satellite link) (fiscal 2011 dollars)

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104470/mq-9-reaper/

You can’t give advanced weapons to the savages in Iran and China, that’s reckless!

Yeah, you’re not being productive in this conversation. Don’t be so thin-skinned.

If that’s what you genuinely believe, that’s even more depressing.

yup

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Thing is that the internet is a global phenomenon, and we don’t see the same thing happening in all the countries. So, the internet itself clearly cannot be the explanation here. There are specific issues present in the US society that we see manifesting as political polarization. I do agree with you that the internet makes it easier for ideas to spread, and thus it acts as an accelerant. However, there need to be underlying divisions to accelerate in the first place.

Always great to see how libs who never stop bleating about authoritarianism, don’t actually believe in democracy themselves.

From what we’ve seen, when any tank gets hit that tends to be fatal. Drones in particular tend to hit weak areas that cause munitions to explode.

lol yeah that too

Lack of social cohesion is what makes people open to all sorts of ideas outside the mainstream, including propaganda. Social cohesion isn’t unravelling because of the internet, it’s unravelling because people’s standard of living is collapsing and they don’t believe that the government is working in their interest. Internet has been around for a long time now, but the political polarization is a very recent phenomenon that perfectly coincides with the ongoing financial crisis that started in 2008.

ironic that you also accuse me of cherry picking when you responded to half of what i said and left the rest

That’s because what you said was nonsense based on your cherry picking. The sources I provided very clearly show that none of this colonialism that you bleat about is actually happening in practice. And if you had a shred of intellectual honesty, you’d be addressing the actual findings in the many studies conducted. Instead, you’ve exposed yourself as a troll. So there’s no need to address anything you said.

also crazy that you just admitted to having an archival system for arguing with strangers on the internet my guy torture wouldn’t have got that out of me

Wow it’s so crazy that somebody would save links that address the arguments that trolls on here make time and again. Absolutely crazy stuff!

so it destroys the local economy, save for businesses now irrevocably economically tied to china?

Gotta love how you cherry picked one quote out of context. Very intelligent behvaior on your part.

also you kept this one in your wank bank for so long some of your links are dead, so you might want to fix it

you could just spend your time to learn to paste links into an archive instead making a clown of yourself in public

Believe it or not, you’re not the first troll to bring up this cliche.

It’s really mind blowing to me that westerners thought that if they’d cut off China from western tech than China wouldn’t be able to replicate it.

The big advantages that T-72/80 have over western tanks is that they’re much lighter meaning that they don’t get stuck in mud as easily, they’re easier to repair, and they have autoloaders reducing crew size.

Only thing that’s laughable here is westerners being incapable of imagining countries having mutually beneficial relationships. Really exposes how the west is a parasitic entity.

• https://www.eurasiareview.com/01022021-chinese-investment-in-africa-has-had-significant-and-persistently-positive-long-term-effects-despite-controversy/
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3745021
• https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/sri-lankas-debt-trap-and-the-vultures/
• https://theconversation.com/china-and-africa-ethiopia-case-study-debunks-investment-myths-177098
• https://www.lse.ac.uk/iga/assets/documents/research-and-publications/FDI-in-Ethiopia-Crescenzi-Limodio.pdf
• https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gild/2021/01/26/how-chinese-investment-shape-new-growth-patterns-in-africa/
• https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-debt-trap-claims-in-africa-stem-from-us-rivalry-study
• https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/chinas-infrastructure-investment-helps-fast-track-development-in-africa-expert/
• https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/08/20/china-forgives-debt-africa/
• https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/11/broadband-business-formation-and-economic-growth-in-the-global-south-assessing-chinas-impact/

Go look at the history of politics in the US, it’s pretty clear that societal cohesion was far higher prior to 2008 crash.

indeed