Obviously the Russian economy is now so well that they can sell discounted oil to NK as an act of friendship (although they never gave a fuck about them in past). Because it can’t be true that Russia is desperate and even getting just a small amount of money for their oilis better than nothing at all…
Why would he be? He’s happy to be deployed to a position that is all show with no chance of actual fighting.
That’s because those drones aren’t actual weapons. They become ones when merged with existing stocks of old ammunition you already have stocked.
They are (relatively) cheap conversion kits for obsolete shells they have lying around in the 100 thousands and more.
Oh, no! Their debt rose by 1,x percent… to a total of ~64%. That’s nearly 20% under EU average. And while countries with rates of 100-160% (let’s not even talk about Japan or US as they are playing in another league entirely) take on more debt to push the economy in times of crisis Germany is not spending anything as no new debts (beyond 0,35%) are allowed constitutionally.
Sure… Germany totally has a debt problem. One of retarded politicians stuck in economic ideas of the 1970s that still don’t understand the difference between a country’s economy and business economy. So they refuse to take on any debt when everyone else does to make their location more attractive for companies via investments.
And still the German economy is only shrinking if you round rediculous low numbers up to 0,1%. Guess the country will deindustrialise and collaps any day now. I hope someone tells the companies building massive new production sites in Germany that they are wasting their money on lost case they will lose all its industry… somehow…
When your government has taken on debt with the assumption that number keep go up, that’s a problem.
And again, the opposite is true. They have reduced debt constantly for decades, did not spend big sums on stimuli while covid (in fact the recent budgetary discussion was about the unused covid funds) and are still not spending anything on the economy. If they actually would take on debt to invest it into economy boosts like everyone araund them does right now, they would obviously have growth.
So they sat at ~+/-0 now and everyone loudly cries recession, doom and apocalypse because two quarters in a row had a (rounded down) -0.1% which technically qualifies.
Sure… so much common wisdom about Germany. Including their immidiate collaps any day now for the last 20+ years. Or the 5%+ economy loss should they not get Russian gas (after all those people who froze to death of course).
In reality those massive losses -coming out of covid, still having supply chain issues and with not even a fraction of the stimulus money other countries spend to counteract on top of no more gas- are now what? +/-0? And with some more obsolete techs slowly sourcing out parts for cost reasons while new technologies open up shop there at the same time.
The only actual risk for Germany (and a lot of other countries) is that people start to believe the bullshit, the outrage farming and doom scrolling trash and all the usual propaganda they are flodded with on a daily basis.
No, wrong is simply neutral and can mean both.
Which doesn’t mean you aren’t right on principle: we should be more precise and call it the lie it is.
“it would signal that the Biden administration is as serious and unwavering in its desire to provoke and wage large-scale war with China”
Sure… because -as we all know- giving countries threatened the tools to defend themselves is the real aggression.
Welcome to the average tankie’s upside-down world…
Don’t confuse people whose whole narrative is build on some conspiracy of media suppression with facts.
I guess skipping the term “Lügenpresse” to avoid the obvious link was deemed enough progress to keep that same 100 years old tactic alive…
No, actually they would have loved to make it easy. Yet the EU is opposed to it.
So now they are doing it in baby steps to get solid data on every step of the way to show the EU rules are bullshit.
First step: decriminalisation for limited amounts, home growing and private clubs.
Next step: licensed distribution in selective model regions, documented as per agreements with the EU commission.
After that: negotiations with similiarly minded EU countries
Full legalisation can basically only happen with an EU frame work and that will be a marathon…
Hawaii is a state in its own right. Under that delusion you have 49 other instances. They elected to join the USA in 1959.
Nice how you fail to mention any actual context:
Hawaii was illegally annexed in 1898, then -against the native’s resistence- controlled by an US appointed government in 1900.
The the US shipped in more soldiers, especially when Hawaii’s importance as a naval base in the pacific increased after ww1.
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the US had 500000 people stationed there… about the same amount as living natives at that point. But just to be sure, they dissolved the local government and declared martial law for nearly a decade.
And after all this and with more and more US citizens immigrating to Hawaii on top of the massive amount of soldiers stationed there and finally making Hawaii natives a minority in their own country the US started a referendum to join the US.
Sure, that’s not fishy bullshit at all.
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