Russia, North Korea, Iran have no reason to launch cyberattacks on China. Neither does Israel, really (their capability is far more oriented towards, y’know, their immediate vicinity). We’re left with the US and UK, but as we all know, the UK doesn’t really have international power anymore and as a result has little reason to provoke China.
Anyone surprised by this is kidding themselves. Only a few countries have developed sophisticated cyberattack capabilities and even fewer are actually interested in China.
Plus, ever since China went around and started executing CIA operatives in China, the US has been operating rather blind with regards to China.
Maybe drop one to show that Russia still has the capability, then another on a different city to show that Russia can keep dropping bombs for as long as it takes?
To what extent? Greater than healthcare? Greater than the flagging economy? The government has limited money.
Why would they? There’s only 535 people in Congress. Giving each of them a million dollars in “donations” every four years is basically a rounding error.
China dumped $180b into solar?
Danielle Smith is the opposite of a fiscal conservative. Dumping $330m on the new Saddledome? Cleaning up for oil companies?
US policy at the time was that a quarantine was obviously not a blockade and thus not a declaration of war. Obviously.
The US and UK will lose some credibility internationally if they pull out now, but they’ll have more flexibility to address domestic issues that can help them in the next election. Given the relative strength of the opposition this election, they’ll need all the help they can get.
Zelensky buddy…
Biden’s polling below Trump in the US (Nov 2024), Sunak is doomed (Jan 2025), and Scholz is leading a flagging economy down the drain (Oct 2025).
Regardless of how people feel about Ukraine, Western support is not indefinite and at some point the Western powers will have to focus their efforts on domestic issues.
You have to read the whole article instead of Ctrl+Fing…
Yes but you see, no country has declared war based on the threat of nukes.
Quarantines are, of course, different. As are special military operations. Of course.
Dude’s from England, cut him some slack for being oblivious. Cuba was only part of the British empire for like a year.
A fair number of bombings have been attributed to defective Ukrainian munitions…
Sovereign nations like Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Cuba, right?
… right?
Then lastly on Sweden. First of all, it is historic that now Finland is member of the Alliance. And we have to remember the background. The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.
The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.
So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.
At least quote the relevant section ffs
“That is why it is so important to achieve all the goals of the special military operation. To push back the borders that threaten our country as far as possible, even if [this is to] are the borders of Poland,” said Medvedev.
English translation isn’t doing him any favours. He’s saying he wants to push to the Polish border, not across it.
Doesn’t China already have the solution to the debt crisis in a hiked property tax? They’re just debating whether they want to do it because it’ll tank property values and probably lead to them reporting a shrink in GDP.
This article starts with talking about the spy balloon that wasn’t a spy balloon: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre-secret-behind-chinas-spy-balloon/
So… The only reason people even consider this a spy balloon is because some guy in China launched it? Wonderful.