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[FriedButter]

The logistic issues, not prices, with Power of Siberia 2 will be solved soon. Europe will get even less Russian energy.

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Last September, they signed an agreement to build the pipeline through Mongolia and began planning detailed designs. Now the special envoy is saying it isn’t prices issues but “making a proper decision on the route of this gas pipeline.”

So the pipeline route hasn’t been decided on yet?

"This is not the matter of price as many mass media outlets wrote, that we cannot negotiate the price. The issue is not with that. The issue relates more to logistics. Making a proper decision on the route of this gas pipeline," the special envoy said.

"This is a working point that will be solved soon," Titov added.

 

[Lethe]

So millions of dollars wasted to change the name for no reason again.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2067022506742169659

It's easy to read too much into the tea leaves on these things, but this matches with Hegseth's

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of the phrase "Indo-Pacific" in his recent speech at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. It also aligns with signs that the United States is increasingly unenthusiastic about the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, i.e. the so-called "Quad" grouping of US-Japan-India-Australia.

As Graeme Dobell points out in the above linked discussion, the "Indo-Pacific" construct emerged as a way to bring India into the US-led containment matrix against China. That it is now being loudly discarded (i.e. not just by omission from speeches) in favour of a return to an older conceptual framework is therefore suggestive of evolving American attitudes towards both China and India.

 

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[iewgnem]

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This chart can explain so much about Europeans.

 

[VishwaguruSteak]

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I found this dumb gem on Chinese AI CEO caste.

F Baidu though.

This weird Indian propaganda is internally aimed to assuage their masses.

It's like their weak attempt to deflect their rapist society as somehow being less sexually violent than the US's.

No one believes it outside of India.

 

[iewgnem]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2066524443489222833

I find it actually very based that even in their their made up Chinese caste system they placed merchants, i.e. billionaires at the lowest caste

 

[sndef888]

Now that America has lost the war against Iran, what do you guys think the consequences will be?

It feels like a Suez moment to me, but not as Suez moment-ish as the original.

 

[PandaAI]

It's easy to read too much into the tea leaves on these things, but this matches with Hegseth's

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of the phrase "Indo-Pacific" in his recent speech at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. It also aligns with signs that the United States is increasingly unenthusiastic about the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, i.e. the so-called "Quad" grouping of US-Japan-India-Australia.

As Graeme Dobell points out in the above linked discussion, the "Indo-Pacific" construct emerged as a way to bring India into the US-led containment matrix against China. That it is now being loudly discarded (i.e. not just by omission from speeches) in favour of a return to an older conceptual framework is therefore suggestive of evolving American attitudes towards both China and India.

India’s global reputation has completely collapsed. The main reasons are:
1. Mass Indian immigration to foreign countries and abusing the visa system and their appalling behaviour once in those countries. From the worst behaved tourists to students abusing their student visas to scamming using work visas.
2. Scamming foreign businesses operating in India with asset confiscation and issuing massive fines.
3. Humiliating loss to Pakistan in 2025 war.

 

[Mar ling]

Now that America has lost the war against Iran, what do you guys think the consequences will be?

It feels like a Suez moment to me, but not as Suez moment-ish as the original.

The most important effect is that, in our previous assessment, for American opponents, the best outcome is defeating America's puppet and American escape. But Iran's war told us that if you can put enough stress on the American army and economy, America would try to bribe you. Which means resisting the fight with Americans actually has earnings; if you stop and capitulate, instead, nothing can be obtained.

 

[iewgnem]

Now that America has lost the war against Iran, what do you guys think the consequences will be?

It feels like a Suez moment to me, but not as Suez moment-ish as the original.

Well its certainly not like the Suze Crisis: Egypt didn't destroy all British bases or hit British ships in the region, Britain/France was forced out by US/USSR, not by Egypt, and Egypt only ended with control of Suez, Britain didn't have to pay them massive reparations.

This is FAR worse than Suez, Suez established US/USSR as the new superpowers and eclipsing Britain/Europe, but the power was still in western hands, whereas this war established the end of the entire western world and it's age of relevancy in human history.