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[BoraTas]

Biden era saw a comprehensive collapse of US influence in the Middle East. Quite hilarious considering the US literally spent trillions in the last 35 years in the Middle East. An entire generation of military modernization cycle was wasted because of GWOT related spending and hardware. All for nothing.

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[tygyg1111]

Funny how @Broccoli cries racism when someone says bad things about his people then. Although from I've seen, it seems that hypocrisy is one the cultural staples shared among variety of Western countries.

BuT nAtO iSn'T a rAcE

 

[sheogorath]

Russia is a country in decline, with a very poor economy, nobody is interested in Russia before other markets and more prosperous and stable echo waves

I don't know, Russia has better macroeconomic forecasts than the UK and Germany according to the IMF so that alone would be proof of how you are coping.

Then there is the fact that the war has accelerated the dedolarization of countries that aren't the US's bitch. That alone is a massive win.

 

[Overbom]

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Did anyone really believe that "no limit talk". I only saw Western alarmism, and Russian euphoria about that.

In the diplomatic field, current China-Russia relationship is based on the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship. Nothing inside the treaty text says anything about "no limit relationship".

China's diplomacy is actually very stable and predictable. Just read the official treaty/agreed documents, take them to their word, and that's it. Simple enough

 

[hullopilllw]

Real question is when Indonesia and Thailand will join in the fun.

Watch out, with elections coming you will never know the methods NED take to make their puppets win.
Esp in Indonesia, they are pushing the Anies puppet so hard now.

 

[Phead128]

Artificial "intelligence" of ChatGPT:

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ChatGPT is trained on data before 2021, so you can't ask it questions for 2022 events or current events.

 

[ironborn]

A heart warming welcome party for the governor Tsai in LA

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[sheogorath]

ChatGPT is trained on data before 2021, so you can't ask it questions for 2022 events or current events.

The bot got really argumentative, though which I thought it was interesting.

 

[plawolf]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1643581297707589637

ROCMND is saying Shandong CSG has transited Bashi Channel and is somewhere off the South East of Taiwan.
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This photo is taken by ROC local somewhere off the southern tip of Taiwan, may be from the CSG.

It's a shame Liaoning is in the shop at the moment, or else this would be a good opportunity to have one rounding the south and one up north.

Are the RoCAF still using recon cameras made during the Cold War? I think most of the historic pictures I have seen from the Cold War days looked less vintage and had better clarity and definition than that first image of the Shandong.

 

[Temstar]

Are the RoCAF still using recon cameras made during the Cold War? I think most of the historic pictures I have seen from the Cold War days looked less vintage and had better clarity and definition than that first image of the Shandong.

Taken by F-16 with reconnaissance pod apparently. Compare photo:


To actual Admiral Kuznetsov, then named Tbilisi sea trial photo from 1980s:


Must be some really really old recon pod or epic level of zoom.