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…
Now that I had to look up quotes anyway…
He was arguing (on that dead-bird-shitshow) that Jews are using their cultural, financial and media influence to weaponize the West’s guilt around the persecution of Jews against innocent Arabs.
Then he deleted the tweet, to repeat the same in several interviews while at the same time claiming that he’s not allowed to say what he just said live on tv.
In several interviews in British media, where he spoke (uncensored) about censorship in the West being more intense and more rediculous than in China. About the fact that he -while freely talking on TV- is somehow not allowed to freely talk about the truth. And about how “the sense of guilt around the persecution of the Jewish people” is weaponized against Arabs via the “Jewish community’s significant influence in the media, finance and culture in the US”.
The latter btw is the bullshit he originally argued. So he is in fact openly telling us to blame all that evil Jewish influence while at the same complaining that he is not allowed to speak about exactly what he is allowed to repeatedly say in interviews…
I don’t remember the original wording, but I’m pretty sure instantly switching over to “the jews controlling media, culture and finance are the reason I got cancelled” (the oldest page in the book about the jewish world conspiracy) is more than enough to evaluate his views…
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Yeah, sure. Listing the 7 countries (from the article btw…) that signed an acquisition and cross-servicing agreement with Japan as one unit is so disrespectful… 🤡
The evil Australia-Canada-France-Germany-India-Japan-UK-US axis… 😂
To fair, there are these so-called “environmentalists” fighting nuclear… in their breaks between protesting wind turbines and solar panels. And who actually finances those is not exactly secret.
But that would solve something. And that’s not wanted.
So instead we will lament ballooning costs and build times for nuclear and invent narratives how that’s totally not caused by nuclear being a shitty alternative to renewables and storage.
This way we can spend another few decades on building a none-solution while just accidently also having sunk so much money already that changing to an actual solution doesn’t make sense anymore.
Oh, sorry. Were we expected to stop burning fossil fuels? Doesn’t seem to work for some reason, but don’t worry. Building nuclear will totally solve this. Any decade now… (And no, we totally did not build to little anyway, just to make sure it will never solve anything even if the unimaginable happens and build times and costs become manageable…)
Yes, that’s a funny tale. And polemic bullshit…
In reality anti-semitism is still wide-spread, no one needs to turn those people. But for quite some time it wasn’t acceptable to say that bullshit out loud. And now a lot of those people are even willing to support a terror organisation like Hamas implicitly or openly, because that gives them the chance to finally have a justification to express their anti-semitism openly again.
When an UN commissioner openly talks about all “media being controlled by the Jewish lobby” you don’t need any made-up excuse like “they are critical about us, so they must be anti-semite” anymore. That guy is an actual anti-semite, shown by parroting a century old anti-semitic conspiracy about their secret world control.
And it’s even worse. People like you are part of the problem. As long as there are easy to see anti-semites among Israel’s critics, but you prefer to ignore them, it’s actually easier for Israel to run with the bullshit story of how all criticism is anti-semitic and anti-Israel. Because the easiest way to lie is to hide it between some truths.
Get rid of obvious anti-semites among critics that anyone can clearly spot -unless you are a total moron or antisemite yourself- and suddenly your criticism seems so much more valid and is not vulnerable anymore to being attacked as antisemitsm, something Israel’s propaganda departments will happily exploit. Fail to do so and you look just like a moron/anti-semite, actually helping Israel’s bullshit PR by devaluating your own arguments.
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