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GulfLander

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"Most in Germany want Australia-style social media ban: poll

A survey has shown that a majority in Germany would support banning social media use for those under 16. This week, Australian lawmakers approved legislation to that effect."

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This can have benefits. Curious, how will this affect the views of the youth after few years, like if they can only watch MSM/cable tv?
 

iewgnem

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"Most in Germany want Australia-style social media ban: poll

A survey has shown that a majority in Germany would support banning social media use for those under 16. This week, Australian lawmakers approved legislation to that effect."

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This can have benefits. Curious, how will this affect the views of the youth after few years, like if they can only watch MSM/cable tv?
Kids under 18 also can't go on adult sites or have their own credit card or create a phone number without their parent, depend on how they enforce it this could be meaningless, plus we all know teenagers love being told what to do.
But let's say they build a real-name ID system for all children, which would be fun to sell, and then build a firewall system that can somehow tell a user is under 16 and block traffic only for them, then proceed to feed only pro-NATO, pro-Israel propaganda to them on YT Kids, then it's just a matter of looking up what happens to cult kids after they discover world outside the cult the moment they turn 16.
 

iewgnem

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Re-activating ISIS and opening a new Syria front isn't that surprising given NATO's collapsing forces in Ukraine and the hole Israel is in.
We'll see how these guys do this time against a Russia with a massively ramped up military industrial complex and years of experience fighting much better NATO equipment head on.
One thing is for sure, if ISIS fail they won't get to fall back to Idlib and ask for ceasefire, the problem will be solved in totality this time.
Considering the west still pretend they're not Al-Qaeda / ISIS allies this also provide an interesting vector for China to openly arm Russia.
 

_killuminati_

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As of today, Taklamakan Desert has been completely surrounded by man-made green belt to halt any further desertification. The green belt is 3,046km long and was built over 40 years.
Forestation of Taklamakan can be accelerated if they reroute the Brahmaputra inland. Oh wait..

It's funny how Jai Hinds keep boasting about India's chess achievements (it's pretty lousy for a 1.4B country that puts so much effort into it while Armenia has only 3M people). Yet their leadership strategy and geopolitics play is rather bad. It seems tone-deaf and when other countries go against them, they somehow don't understand why.
Jai Hinds don't understand the concept of innovation. Like when Tamerlane innovated chess by adding his own pieces and simultaneously annihilated Delhi, an event which Indians are still bitter about.

do you think India could be divided without Arabs and US military power. UK was not in position to say no.
Saudi are very generous, sophisticated and polite. They are not going to tell on your face what they actually did nor not did.
In April 1940, within a month of the passage of the Lahore Resolution, Crown Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud visited Karachi. He was warmly welcomed by towering Muslim League figures including M.A.H. Ispahani, M.A. Maniar, and Karim Bhai Ibrahim. He was accompanied by a large delegation, including his five brothers. Two of them, Prince Faisal and Prince Fahd, were to become the future kings of Saudi Arabia.
Who the hell are these guys? Towering figures? Lol. Ispahani was ambassador to US. Other two are unknown. The actual towering figures, Jinnah, Bogra, Suhrawardy clearly didn't show up to the welcoming.

Meanwhile, the bedouin Arabs of UAE, whom the superpower Saudis couldn't prevent from breaking away, had to learn how to fly and lease aircraft from Pakistan.
On 25 October 1985, Emirates operated its first flight from
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I still haven't received a proper answer to the question of why Arabs were so weak to prevent a nonsense fracturing of the state. UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Saudis.. all Arabs, same culture, same religion, same language, same values, yet... smashed and broken up the British.
 

iewgnem

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I don't think you can model this trade war the same as 2018.
In 2018 Chinese industry was objectively not as dominant as it is now
More importantly back then China didn't know how much power itself was, or how weak and incompetent western countries turned out to be.

After 6 years of failed and forgotten trade war, China now knows just how much power the west actually has and how much power itself has, the west is this time going into the trade war with an inflation crisis, and China is going into it with 4 years of dual-circulation, not to mention this time China has almost elusive RMB/non-USD trade with Russia and much of the global south.

China has actively eliminated export rebate on key industrial intermediates to raise prices, and and has been adding more and more products to export control over the last 2 years. So if Americans think they can negotate the same way they did last time and think China cares about maintaining exports to them, they're probably going to have a very bad time.
 
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