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Vietnam is adopting Standard Gauge Railway (same as China's gauge railway) for all her high-speed rail in the country, North to South, including ones connecting to China itself.
Anyone with a modicum of understanding of geopolitics knows that Game Over, GG.
Not even Russia-China shares the same Rail Gauge connection - yet China achieved that with Vietnam. If you read Western pundits, you would think Vietnam would never adopt HSR/gauge size tech of China due to adversarial relations - this is farther from the truth. Yes, they are unusually silent too.
I'm pretty sure X is more real world than things like USAID/RFE/RFA/VOA. Those institutions are controlled by a small group of people that seem completely detached from reality. There's little lost in their absence.
USAID was still getting shit done, though. While the projects had woke sounding names, they were facades for regime-change and comprador training and they had people on the ground in most of the globe so they were actually touching grass in the areas of interest.
The same can't be said about techbros.
it's weird how this list doesn't even include Israel. if we rank countries by their overal strength then we have to include everything. not just their economy or military but also their influence. the second weird thing I noticed is that he ranked Singapore at 11th place higher than countries like the KSA, Turkey, Italy. Singapore is a prosperous city for sure but in the end it is just that, a city state. if we make a list of which country is more prosperous Singapore would probably be number one maybe but this is a list of the total strength not a list of economic perfomance.
personaly that is how I would make the list:
1-USA.
2-China.
3-Eurozone.
4-France.
5-UK.
6-Russia.
7-Israel
8-Germany.
9-Japan.
10-South Korea.
11-Saudi Arabia.
12-Italy
13-Turkey.
14-Brazil.
15-India.
16-Indonesia.
17-Spain.
18-Canada.
19-Asutralia.
20-Malaysia.
21-UAE.
22-Singapore.
23-South Africa.
24-Mexico.
France and the UK have larger more prosperous economies than Russia. plus they are members of the EU & NATO and thus have more influence than Russia in Europe and unlike Germany they do have nukes. France's nuclear arsenal is independant unlike that of the UK which is dependent on the US that is why France is higher than the UK. France's and the UK's military and nuclear arsenal is sufficient for self defence and deterence and while their military is smaller than that of Russia however that is done by choice because the UK & France would rather spend on welfare and keep the military spending at a minimum which is a wise thing to do.
Israel is a prosperous nuclear state and while it is small however Zionist influence basically has the entire west (including the US) by their balls. it is this influence that makes Israel a capable state otherwise it would have been closer to the bottom of the list.
"Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with Belgium, saying it has been "consistently undermined" by the European nation during the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Brussels has been leading calls for European nations to sanction Rwanda over its support for the M23, a rebel group at the centre of DR Congo's crisis.
The authorities in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, have given Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country.
Belgium, which is the former colonial power, has said it will respond to these measures and labelled Rwanda's decision "disproportionate".[...]"
Brussels has been leading calls for European nations to sanction Rwanda over its support for the M23, a rebel group at the centre of DR Congo's crisis.
The authorities in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, have given Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country.
Belgium, which is the former colonial power, has said it will respond to these measures and labelled Rwanda's decision "disproportionate".[...]"
Saar. How dare you put Bharat at 15 and not even in top 10! I'm going to directly @ Modi-Ji on X telling him to take immediate action against you! Then you will understand not to mess with us.