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Bellum_Romanum

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Oooh I lauged when he put his entire family in danger when he went on a racist tirade against Asians on social networks.
Why did he do that? And what did he eat for breakfast to go full racist against his own wife and essentially against himself since he's with an Asian lady for a wife.
 

LawLeadsToPeace

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Why did he do that? And what did he eat for breakfast to go full racist against his own wife and essentially against himself since he's with an Asian lady for a wife.
Having read the c**p those type of people spew from their mouths, I believe that he views his 'wife' like how a 5th century foot-soldier viewed a defeated enemy's palace after a successful siege: loot.
 

Arnies

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After they shot down their own plane while trying to retaliate against the Americans, I have very little confidence in the competence of the Iranians.

No Strikes will come tho because it is fruitless instead what can be expected here is a massive incursion it won't result in a prolonged invasion but 2 years max for disarmement. Israel can't defeat Iran conventionally they are to big and to strong for Israel but NATO and other regional players surrounding Iran will likely forum into one massive coalition and enter real quick some may stay behind and not leave I am thinking Egypt, KSA, Morocco, Algeria, UAE, Tunisia, Jordan, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Turkey etc etc these will likely come in with NATO whereas NATO will withdraw immediately after 2 years time but these 10 others highly probably won't withdraw from Iran aka Dar-ul-Fars as they call it and it is a land they have previously occupied for almost 1000 years.. A powerful Iran has never risen since they have defeated and conquered the Sassanid empire Iran has always lived under their shadows for the last 1500 years either under occupation for the longest span of time like 1000+ years etc etc. I believe they will stay behind permanently not vacating Iran. If Pakistan picks up on this it may grab some lands close to Balochistan and oil areas.

I mean if the situation was to come to this it would be huge opportunity for them to reoccupy Darul Fars at a very low cost
 
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The United States is also uncertain whether Honduras could follow suit and open diplomatic ties with Beijing, the U.S. official told Reuters, but added Washington was ready to "surge" economic aid to the incoming government of Xiomara Castro.
Lol shoe is now on the other foot. These 14 characters are all going to call up Washington every now and then and go "have you seen the latest infrastructure offering by China as part of BRI. If I take up this offer I will see my GDP growth accelerate by as much as 1% per year, what do you think about that?"
 

supersnoop

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EPR was made after decades of mostly stagnant French nuclear reactor orders. A lot of the people who worked on the reactor projects have since long retired. Lots of institutional knowledge was lost.

The Olkiluoto EPR nuclear reactor project in Finland has been nothing but an unmitigated disaster. It is supposed to finally begin operations in February 2022. Construction began in 2005. That is 17 years to build a nuclear reactor.
I don’t know what it was like in the 70’s nuclear heyday, but let me tell you my short experience in the 2000’s.

The early “nuclear renaissance” looking for CO2-free power generation coincided with the end of the useful life of early reactors. Now there is a lot of work to undertake to extend the life/upgrade power plants. This work pulled a lot of old engineers out of retirement, since basically nothing was built since the 70’s/80’s outside of China.

Everything taking a long time because it’s these old guys teaching young people half the time. The other big time suck is half the suppliers are out of business or not making that part anymore. So one way or another you are paying up to get what you need. However because of the “green” aspect, everyone is willing to invest this time and money.

Then Fukushima happens and the companies fire everyone once again and work pace is crawling
 
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