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siegecrossbow

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It's expected. Congress and their oligarch friends caused this, the court isn't going to stick their own neck out and fix this. Both parties also going to avoid taking the blame and come 19th it's lights out and then the fun begins. You think the current crowd on XHS is a big deal that's just the entree.

Their days are numbered.

Yeah they can ban XHS next, but the damage is already done. The people know the truth, and there is no turning back from it.
 

zyklon

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I'm actually shocked so many Europeans are saying 5% military spending is good if it's not spent on US weapons.
And not economic suicide.
Maybe they think 5% is a nice round number, like Trump?

This is only a privilege for petrostates.

Looks like Lithuania is looking to outdo Poland by not just allocating 5% of its GDP to defense, but 5-6% of its relatively miniscule GDP to defense by 2026:

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In absolute terms this isn't much, but significant in that Lithuania is currently spending ~3% of its GDP on defense, whereas Poland will be reportedly at ~4.7% for this year.

Not sure where the funding will come from for the Lithuanians for such an immediate and significant jump, but maybe the Lithuanians are hoping for some subsidies or matching funds from Uncle Sam for "setting an example" for the rest of NATO?
 

siegecrossbow

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This is like the metaphorical Three Gorges collapse they have always been wet dreaming about.... but in real life politics....
I hope they keep making "wrong moves"....

If they had been the teensy bit less greedy then none of this would even have happened in the first place. Instead, they chose to devour themselves, because such is their nature.
 

jiajia99

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It matters little. Once the dam has collapsed, you can’t put the water back. Let this be a lesson in greed and hubris.
Eventually, someone might just try to target the people responsible for the ban with actual violence, I mean some people on XHS have floated the idea that a revolution is needed to fix the USA for goodness sake.

The brazen and utterly petty attempt at banning TikTok along with the Chinese netizens on XHS and the like showing the real China to the world could be what ignites a hatred in the American people to the point where one day, these elites like the rich people who had their homes burnt down in the LA fires, might end up attacked for real. I mean if the children of those so called court judges would upheld the ban had there favorite app/pass time taken away because their parents are to busy sucking Trumps dick, I don’t think their relationships would be very good at all moving forward. Heck some might be tipped over the edge to the point something horrible is guaranteed to happen given how the collective citizens of that nation are literally tittering on the edge of the abyss along with well, all the guns they just might end up using sooner or later (it takes one freak incident like the palisades fire to deprive the rich of what is precious)

Seriously, these stupid leaders think that banning something that much of the nation enjoys due to a fuck up they refused to own up to is a good idea. I don’t think Trump is going to enjoy his triumph for very long along with the rest of the government given that well, based on the events on the start of the year alone, the USA still have 11 months of horror to go through and I don’t think they nation is going to make it if they don’t learn a bit of humility and actually start caring about the people, it’s like they desperately want to enact the French Revolution or something, is this a fetish or some kind they want happening to China, because this is simply getting more likely for it to happen in reverse. Why some people think Trump is a genius is beyond me, he is an opportunist like Netanyahu, simply coasting on other peoples fuck ups until one day, they slip up and face reality.
 

supersnoop

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LOL. 1200 horsepower train engines are peanuts in Chinese standards. China has had this hydrogen powered train engine of 2400kW. That's more than 3200 horsepower.

Guess India is once again leading a world in which China was conveniently absent.


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I suspect that the Indian train is a Hydrogen fueled ICE/generator set up?

Such technology exists in China as well, but I believe the majority of Train projects use Hydrogen fuel cell because the conversion efficiency is much higher (~20%). Not well-versed, maybe someone who is more knowledgeable can comment.
 
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