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Major
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This looks systematic. I'm going to guess that the account is corporate and they're using SDF content to generate views.
I tried reverse searching those images in Google and couldn't find any result, while Yandex keeps returning K-pop celeb pictures but no matching photos. There's a possibility the person is real, using their friend's pictures or using some advanced photoshop dark magic.
It's not a real person. There are quite a few accounts like that where posts alternate between selfies and very specific geopolitical points of view. I wonder if they are picking up random pictures off the internet or actually paying someone for selfie while they post the political content.

Indians have been doing it for years, except they have to use picture of non-Indian girls. Search for any anti Chinese hashtag and you'll find lots of posts from attractive girls from UK/US/EU who only seem interested in talking about Chinese and Indian foreign policy in call centre English.
 

Temstar

Brigadier
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It's not a real person. There are quite a few accounts like that where posts alternate between selfies and very specific geopolitical points of view. I wonder if they are picking up random pictures off the internet or actually paying someone for selfie while they post the political content.

Indians have been doing it for years, except they have to use picture of non-Indian girls. Search for any anti Chinese hashtag and you'll find lots of posts from attractive girls from UK/US/EU who only seem interested in talking about Chinese and Indian foreign policy in call centre English.
Perhaps we actually attracted a bot from Publicity Department of CPC?
A Chinabot if you will
 

Coalescence

Senior Member
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It's not a real person. There are quite a few accounts like that where posts alternate between selfies and very specific geopolitical points of view. I wonder if they are picking up random pictures off the internet or actually paying someone for selfie while they post the political content.

Indians have been doing it for years, except they have to use picture of non-Indian girls. Search for any anti Chinese hashtag and you'll find lots of posts from attractive girls from UK/US/EU who only seem interested in talking about Chinese and Indian foreign policy in call centre English.
Guess there's only one way to settle this. If you're reading this @quanyi_li2, post a pic of yourself on twitter holding a piece of paper with "没有共产党就没有新中国“ written on it or you're a fake CCP shill bot.
 

gelgoog

Lieutenant General
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No, most of the refining and extracting equipment is imported. Soviet stuff is too inefficient and rusting. This is actually one of the big looming dangers to the Russian oil industry and why there is a consensus that the production will be declining.
A lot of the more modern equipment was imported from either Europe or Japan. The US had placed sanctions on Russian oil equipment since 2014. Namely the US stopped sales of horizontal drilling equipment to Russia for Yamal. Russia had to develop their own. Much of the refining equipment was also imported from either Europe or Japan. This might impact the time for entry into service for the gas processing facilities at Ust-Luga near St. Petersburg and at Amur in the Far East. I have little doubt Russia can develop their own equipment if they need to but it might take some time. It was a mistake for them to rely on imports of that to begin with. They can already produce their own mining trucks and the like. Anyway, just think about it, their space industry basically has all the required know-how in mechanical engineering to produce such products if it comes down to it.

And, on the other hand, to cut off trade relations between Germany and Russia and to consolidate the club of European vassals, an objective that has been fully achieved and there is no longer any trace, not even the slightest trace, of the Germany I knew.
The problems started way before that. You had the Soros sponsored disintegration of Yugoslavia and Soros getting the UK GBP out of the EMU and hence the UK never joined the Eurozone.

The EU simply had no concerted response to the civil war in Yugoslavia and the US went and stepped in and used it as pretext to expand NATO and put everyone in line by making NATO bomb Yugoslavia. That was basically when the EU lost any chance of having its own unified defense policy I think. Yugoslavia was too dangerous to keep as a non-aligned nation in Europe since they had the largest army in continental Europe at the time. Even after the breakup one of the conditions the US imposed on Serbia was that they had to melt down most of their tanks.

Without the UK economy, and most importantly defense industry and military, there is little chance of Europe having an unified defense policy much less one which can act in the world stage independent from the US. The German economy underinvests in defense and they are totally subverted under US control with many US military bases on their soil and total US control of their media.
 
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AndrewS

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Without the UK economy, and most importantly defense industry and military, there is little chance of Europe having an unified defense policy much less one which can act in the world stage independent from the US. The German economy underinvests in defense and they are totally subverted under US control with many US military bases on their soil and total US control of their media.

Well, we're seeing very significant headline increases in terms of German military spending.

If you only take France and Germany together, they can make up for anything the UK can contribute.
 
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