Yes. These guys have a vested interest in their client selling F-35 parts, so they will try to paint white as black.
The interesting part will be whether the court accepts their reasoning.
perestroika
joined 2 years ago
In any self-respecting civil war, people use jets and warships against someone's orders, and build as many drones as they can. Handguns are how it starts - a crew taking control of a ship will be fighting their ex-commander with handguns.
Note: I do not recommend a civil war to the US folks. Almost any other problem-solving method is guaranteed to give better outcomes.
Considering that he hurt the US economy considerably in the process of getting tootled by China, I don't think he has credit to spare for repeating the same process with the EU.
Yes, we sold them a license. The jihadists also bought one.
Despite his lack of recpect, we are even willing to sell a license to president Trump. He will appreciate our proprietary methods of air travel. Not a single foreigner has spoken a bad word about them. In fact, not a single passenger has spoken a bad word about them. :)
If he continues ruling like that, he's going to need more floor space. :)
If it were another house, I'd recommend a statue of a small crowd of Soviet citizens heroically overwhelming a man who missed Brezhnev with a pistol. The statue should be equipped with audio, so if a visitor approaches, the audio should play and multilingual translations should run on a screen, narrating the approximate dialogue:
<bang>
you missed him
<bang>
really poor shot
<bang>
hey, let me try
<bang>
give me the gun
<bang>
you're wasting ammo, give me the damn gun
<bang>
stop resisting, I will take the gun from you now
(sadly it's based on an anecdote, no such historical event has occurred)
Depends.
If an overwhelming crowd can come together fast - arrest can be blocked and persons de-arrested. But it has to be overwhelming, so that no cop would think of aiming a gun.
Throughout the history of resisting repression - this arrangement is hard to spontaneously produce.
As a minimum, people would have to organize with the clear goal of interrupting ICE raids. They'd likely establish a means of communcation (most likely a phone app backed up by mesh networking) and dedicate resources to offering each other legal assistance later. Possibly, everyone who goes to jail for the hypothetical anti-ICE movement should be celebrated like a rock star (with their permission) and their families should be helped through hardship, to encourage people to undertake risky actions.
The other option - working underground - would be exhausting either ICE or a local police force by persistent sabotage against them. Neutralizing the ICE would have the aim of them organizing less raids, neutralizing police might have the aim of them not backing ICE raids. While more straightforward to accomplish, this approach would bring about high risk (e.g. accusations of terrorism) to people carrying out sabotage. To avoid this, sabotage would have to be carefully considered and low-key. Perhaps, for example, it would aim to upset the agency's ability to process data - to know whom it actually wants to deport.
Of course, with local police, one should consider the potential outcomes of successfully neutralizing police: both their negative and positive functions would be neutralized, and people might start complaining about crime.
A curious tactical perspective becomes evident when thinking about this: police resources could be diverted in peaceful ways, with false reports.
When I think of how one might decrease police responsiveness to an ICE backup request, I can't avoid thinking of nice movie scenarios: e.g. while some people are busy obstructing an ICE raid, some other reliably anonymous people divert police resources by calling 911 and reporting various violent situations elsewhere. Others create a traffic jam, effectively isolating the street involved from motor vehicle traffic. Backup will have to arrive on foot, after they're done chasing the hostage-taking bank robbers who did not exist. :)
Wait until you happen to visit to Risti, Estonia, where a mast named Soorebane inhabits an intersection of some country roads. :)
Of course, it's an artsy decorative exception for where a high voltage line must cross through a public place. In all other places, ordinary lattice grid masts.
Despite the suspicion-causing "Trump says" expression in the title, the news has been confirmed.
It's a relief that they stopped. This could have turned really ugly.
Once upon a time, in a distant land, a person arrived near a police vehicle while a crowd surrounding the vehicle was argumentative and loud. They dropped a few caltrops and nudged them under the wheels with their toe.
Once upon a time, in a distant land, a guy with a cordless drill disabled some police vehicles in a speed-run. Sadly they had no RC car to mount it on (note: some cleanliness, testing and engineering skills required) or they could have called it a "rig" and proclaimed "drill, baby, drill".
The doctrine of the EU so far, is to consider China a multi-faced player: a partner for cooperation, an economic competitor and a systemic rival (e.g. it's possible to cooperate with China on climate, but not on human rights).
So far, China has also been a multi-faced player. Xi has patted Putin on the back and declared "unlimited partnership", but no Chinese weapons have been seen in Ukraine. Chinese soldiers have been observed there, but they seem to be really few for a country of that size - either mercenaries or people obtaining first hand experience under mercenary cover. Too few to matter as soldiers.
China has warm trade relations with Russia and has helped Russia source technology and endure sanctions. However, they haven't made a special and dedicated effort to insulate Russia from secondary sanctions, and several Chinese companies have applied sanctions on Russia as a result.
On other occasions, Chinese representatives have said nice words about Ukraine's territorial integrity. But deeds haven't followed.
In UN votes about Ukraine, China often abstains.
Officially, China doesn't sell drones to Russia or Ukraine. In reality, both Ukrainian and Russian drones are full of Chinese parts. Ukrainian government is asking every bigger player to have a plan B that works without China, but few really have one. What Russian government asks of their drone makers, I don't know.
I think the video refers to this event: back in 2022, a journalist was shot by Israeli troops while covering a raid in a refugee camp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh
The most recent news article about it is from Al Jazeera, 1 day ago:
As for Biden's role, Al Jazeera describes it thusly:
The administration of former US President Joe Biden had “concluded early on that an Israeli soldier had intentionally targeted her, but that conclusion was overruled internally”, he said.
“We found some concerning evidence that both Israel and the Biden administration had covered up Shireen’s killing and allowed the soldier to get away without any accountability,” he added.
So, they were able to do the math, but subsequently "fell on their tongue" instead of speaking up. Later on, the issue was dragged out into public attention anyway, but Israel failed to investigate properly and prosecute the killing (they apologized, though). As of yesterday, the primary suspect's name is also known. But that doesn't guarantee much.
Myself, I actively avoid YouTube as a source of news, since YouTube has a recommendation algorithm that feeds people content that it thinks they want. To get news about the Middle East, I'll recommend Al Jazeera almost without hesitation.
Diagnosis:
The US system for financing medicine has middlemen who increase prices. The consumer / patient has poor representation and low bargaining power. In European countries, there typically exists a central health insurance authority that's not interested in making a profit, but is interested in everyone's health and access to medicines (at low cost if possible).
Subsequently, a president arrives who doesn't understand a thing. He's been told that his ratings are dropping and he should "do something the people like". He tries to solve drug prices with customs tariffs instead of implementing single payer health care in the US.
Prognosis:
The result will be a free market clusterf*ck and some people will die as a result.