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Sounds more and more like the elite club boys are panicking and scrambling to prevent China + the rest of the developing world from rising, because that would render their long-held privilages and their lordship over the rest of the world void.

Just a heads up: The New York City Emergency Management just broadcasted a nuclear attack PSA on how to prepare and react in case of a nuclear attack on NYC.

So nice of the woman explaining the procedures to start with "So there's been a nuclear attack. Don't ask me how or why, just know that the big one has hit. Ok?"

In reality, all of us here already know EXACTLY HOW & WHY that would happen.
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Skynet?
 
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Errrm, okay...
Meanwhile selling F-35 to Greece I see.
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LOL. There are people in Turkey who had been screaming cOmPaTiBiLiTy or loGIsTiCs when anyone mentioned buying non-American aircraft. Now Turkey can not procure even light 43-year-old 4th-gen aircraft while its much smaller neighbors are getting Eurocanards and F-35s. Now the only thing Turkey can procure in a reasonable time period without massive political costs and massive infrastructure revision is Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche-3. And that aircraft is very expensive and lacks an AESA. The MMU won't be here for at least 10 more years.
cOmPaTiBiLiTy and loGIsTiCs people can rejoice. Logistics will be very easy and there will be no compatibility problems when Turkey stops having a modern airforce.
 
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Hypocritical Germany is being brought to its knees

Berlin loved to preach the virtues of net zero. Now it is being forced to confront its own policy failures

How would you like to be told by the government to spend no more than five minutes in the shower – or even urged to share a bath with a friend? That’s what’s happening in Germany, where
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. The crisis caused by Berlin’s dependence on Russian gas and oil makes our own cost of living crisis pale by comparison.

This week there was alarm across the Continent when Russia switched off the
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gas pipeline, supposedly for “routine maintenance”, until next week. Will the Kremlin switch it back on again? Vladimir Putin promises that Russia is still “ready to fulfill its obligations”, but few now trust the butcher of
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Not only the German public but their government are panicking about what will happen next.
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is being stored in huge underground freezers, but unless usage is drastically cut, supplies are expected to run out by January.

If so, Germany would face its worst slump since the 1940s, with the economy shrinking by more than 12 per cent, production in the flagship car industry collapsing by 17 per cent and up to six million jobs at risk. Family fuel bills are already due to rise by €2,000 per annum, and there are plans to provide emergency accommodation in town halls for those unable to heat their homes.

Hence Robert Habeck, the Green Party Vice-Chancellor, is appealing to families to reduce consumption. “I’ve never showered for [as long as] five minutes in my life,” he says. The energy minister boasts that he turns off his heating all day in winter because he is always out. This is cold comfort for families and the elderly, who don’t have a warm ministerial office to go to. Yet some landlords are already threatening to turn down the heating in blocks of flats, while local authorities are even switching off street lights.

Germans used to lecture their neighbours about environmental virtue. Not any more: fossil fuels such as gas are now deemed to be “clean”, while coal-fired power stations are back in business.

A bitter blame game has erupted over the disastrous decision to exit from nuclear power a decade ago, leaving the country wholly reliant on Russia. The reputation of the once-idolised
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is in tatters, but her successor,
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, is held responsible by two thirds of voters for the failure to safeguard energy security. The entire German political establishment has been caught with its environmentalist trousers down. Even a normally docile press cannot ignore the rank hypocrisy of an elite that preached “net-zero” to the rest of Europe but is now moving in the opposite direction.

That collective hypocrisy goes far beyond the politics of energy. Despite their crocodile tears about the war, to save their own skins Scholz and his coalition are in effect throwing Ukraine under a bus. Apart from a handful of howitzers, Berlin has neither given Kyiv heavy weapons nor boosted their production.

Meanwhile, Scholz’s much-trumpeted hike in military spending, announced last February, turns out to have been a flash in the pan. Germany’s depleted armed forces are to be cut back even further next year.

Even the supposedly hawkish Green foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, now merely wrings her hands, saying that “there is nothing to be done”. The prospect of rationing has already caused public support for backing Ukraine to decline: as food and energy prices continue to rise, 38 per cent of Germans want no punitive action against Russia.

Scholz is attempting to placate both his Nato allies and Putin, but has earned the respect of neither. In eastern, central and northern Europe, meanwhile, Germany under Scholz is more despised and distrusted than at any time since 1945.
Either an almighty bust-up in Berlin is coming, with a real possibility that the ruling “traffic light” coalition will implode, or it will capitulate to Putin.

Last week Scholz and his colleagues were toasting the fall of
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. But the German Chancellor faces a nightmare scenario of his own; his schadenfreude may prove to be short-lived.

Once admired and envied, Germany is now the textbook example of how much damage a misguided foreign and energy policy may do.
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The funnier thing is the Telegraph (UK government mouth piece) calling Germans hipocritical when everything described in the article is happening in the UK as well, with the added cost of Brexit, lowest natural gas storage in Europe, collapse of the government, not enough food and even higher inflation than Germany. Hipocritical inception?
 
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JebKerman said:
The funnier thing is the Telegraph (UK government mouth piece) calling Germans hipocritical when everything described in the article is happening in the UK as well, with the added cost of Brexit, lowest natural gas storage in Europe, collapse of the government, not enough food and even higher inflation than Germany. Hipocritical inception?
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The UK is in a worse position than any other European country, yet they act like they are immune. The UK produces gas but still is a net exporter, with a third coming from Norway. What happens when all of Europe start fighting over Norwegian supplies? You can say goodbye to that third.

Furthermore the gas producing regions are almost entirely in Scotland. There is a strong separatist movement there, and it won't take long before they figure out instead of having their gas taken by England they can just keep it for themselves and become a net exporter.
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China is still buying new J-10C. The latest F-16 is likely one of the cheapest modern fighter to operate.
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J-10C is a new plane, not a redesigned 70s jet. F-16s aren't cheap, look up the Bulgarian F-16 purchase a few months ago.
 
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Lowest storage in Europe but smoothest brain in whole world ;)
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I mean they just hosted COP26 last year, and Greta just gave a speech at Glastonbury a couple of weeks ago, and now they are planning on opening new coal mines. The only reason the decision is delayed is because the person in charge (Michael Gove) got fired by Boris before he resigned. What a f***ing mess.
 
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