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It's owned by a company in Hongkong, this is a much bigger deal then the previous stateless tanker they seized a week ago which was a legal seizure according to .
This new seizure is completly illegal and and if not an act of war atleast straight up theft.
This video explains it in more detail
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
The cooperation is a distant dream, maybe impossible in a world with split factions and interests but at the end of the day, the most important thing is to remove the power of the USD in granting America the ability to force small nations to its will and to basically take everything for free by printing fiat money. Permanent damage to the US is to remove its ability to use its currency as a weapon and to out-develop its military so that it cannot do things like it's doing in Venezuela today. America's left and right are are its currency power and its military power. Cut both off and while you might argue that you haven't carved its body up, but, you've turned a country that was once an unopposable king of the world in to a harmless dude with no arms who has to mind his own business. That, to me, is permanent harm and lots of it.
You got this the other way around. The reason Trump pivoted to South America is not because he's no longer angry at China; it's because he's now scared of China after not only having his trade war offensive broken but also unexpectedly having a rare earths blade checkmated onto his neck before he was allowed to crawl away. China doesn't care about making Trump mad. Trump cares about not making his base mad because they elected him to bully China; he found out he can't but he can at least offer them the consolation prize of bullying Venezuela and that's why we are where we are.
Complete and utter nonsense. Trying to play games.
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J-10C shooting down rafales were more significant than the 6th gen reveal. It was literally the first time a 4.5th gen fighter was shot down and proved that China wasn't just making shit up about its capabilities. Also, Americans has A LOT of cope against 6th gen reveals like saying how B-21 was...
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Lethe
Captain
I don't know how much the Palmer Luckey/Anduril connection really weighs on ModRetro, but when is also doing the FPGA-based retro console thing but without the Marvel supervillain vibes, it's an easy choice for those who are at all squeamish about such things.
P.S. I bought the recently-released Analogue 3D to indulge in some , but I can't speak to the experience as I don't yet have any controllers for it. 8BitDo have announced the for their controller that goes with the system, but are yet to actually release it, so I won't get to try the system until they do (February). Fingers crossed that I don't have a dud unit...
P.P.S. While these niche nostalgia boxes aren't exactly cheap, it seems that it's only through the magic of China, Inc. that they are commercially viable at all.
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plawolf
Lieutenant General
It’s just the Americans digging their own graves harder and faster. Sure there is little China can realistically do to stop the USN from pirating it’s tankers in LATAM, but there are plenty of ways China to response and counterattack.
The most obvious would diplomatic pressure and economic sanctions.
If we want to move up the escalation ladder, and obvious move would be a tit-for-tat seizure itself of sanctioned American cargo. Arms shipments to Taiwan would be an obvious target.
If China wants to play dirty, it would be child’s play for the MSS to plant an untraceable IED inside the crude storage tank of a real shadow tanker, full said tanker with crude, let the Americans seize it, and trigger the blast while its unloading at an American port. If they did it right, that blast will have quite a bang to it, to put it mildly.