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pmc

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I'm not so sure about that. If you ask me with half a million strong Russian army available for the Winter Offensive where would I strike I'm very inclined to go for Kiev Offensive 2.0
I have doubt troop from North will come to sieze city size of Kiev. It can only happen if Ukraine nearing collapse or a diversion.
Most of the cruise missile launches happen from Caspian/BlackSea which are to the South of Ukraine. It is the Southern Military district that got involved in various operations in in Middleast and Africa and its expansion towards Ukraine was mentioned.
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Every country has specific demographics and the force structure is built around it especially if sudden surge is needed.
This 2016 video. when you see that Black American SUVs in escort among the Western made vehicles. this the Saudi template of legitimacy as these are the type of official motorcade Saudi kings drive around. It has to look and feel that person is almost at level of Saudi Royals and the Persian Gulf religious leaders shows up when needed. this is all part of legitimacy to provide the most effective force from Caucus regions and people still eat dress well to enjoy the culture.

 

KenC

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Lies and baseless allegations are just not just the monopoly of US politicians but their senior officials too.

Reuters: Top adviser to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Counselor Brent Neiman, said in a speech seen by Reuters on Tuesday, that China’s debt practices were “unconventional” and that they had failed to provide meaningful debt relief to low and middle-income countries. Does the foreign ministry have any comment?

Wang Wenbin: China has always taken seriously the debt issue of developing countries. I need to underscore that first, developing countries mainly borrow from commercial and multilateral lenders. According to the World Bank’s International Debt Statistics, by the end of 2020, commercial and multilateral creditors accounted for 40% and 34% respectively for the public external debt of 82 low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Bilateral official creditors took up 26% and China less than 10%. In recent years, developing countries have mainly borrowed their new debts from Western commercial creditors and multilateral institutions. The developing countries’ medium- to long-term debt payment mainly flows to Western commercial creditors and multilateral institutions. What you quoted from the US side is not based on facts.

 

Petrolicious88

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Are you seriously supporting the anglophone conservatives royalist revisionist propaganda to shift blame? almost everything can thought of as something that “takes two to tango“. but one side can certainly be the aggressor who perpetuated the tango. That’s like how some British historians blame China for the opium wars, stating that it was due to lack of market access or trade imbalance and how the Chinese were just as bad for operating opium dens. The two does not equate in terms of blame. By your reasoning, do you support the Belgium king cutting the hands off their African slaves for not working hard enough because those workers should have been more productive?

it is certainly hypocritical that the same people who try to whitewash British history are also the ones who blamed Chinese demand for African poachers killing elephants.
You clearly didn’t read what I wrote. I said those Africans that willingly sold their own people are just as guilty. Their legacy is just as dirty as the British if not worse. They sold their own.
 

daifo

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Well its better that they are saying that while still importing goods from China at a huge deficit.

The US game plan is likely to try to move manufacturing to some other Asian country like India and Vietnam over the next decade thinking they can play those against China like they played China against the Soviets. The hope is that they will also import American goods which in reality isn't gonna happen as it is rapidly becoming that the US does'nt have anything unique... like do people really want GM cars, walmarts, mcdonalds , suburbia , or hollywood entertainment anymore? Other countries like China and others has also aquire the ability to produce industrial machinery, chemicals and services too since the 80s
 
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The US Army has a major recruiting problem and can't find enough young people who meet the basic requirements to enlist, according to Army Times.

Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, second in command for Army Training and Doctrine Command, sounded off Thursday about the troubling developments. She highlighted disqualification rates for potential recruits jumped from 30-40% (pre-Covid) to a whopping 70% this year due to obesity, low test scores, and/or drug use.

Gervais pointed out the service has experienced a "nosedive" in recruits since July 2021. She explained Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores were 10% lower during the virus pandemic in 2020-21. That figure has since increased to 13% for the most recent high school graduating class.

Perhaps America's youth was dumbed down during Covid with at-home schooling via daily video conferences. The latest Education Department data confirm reading and math scores plummeted. Maybe those kids were playing too many video games or trading 'meme stocks' or posting useless videos on TikTok during the pandemic instead of opening a book and learning something valuable.

Besides failing to meet academic standards, obesity was another driver of higher disqualification rates. Also, increasing drug use among youngsters didn't help.

The challenges of today's youth put combat preparedness in question as liberal war hawks are determined to spark World War III in Ukraine and or in the Taiwan Strait.

Gen. Joseph Martin, vice chief of staff for the Army, warned in July that the recruitment goal for 2022 could be slashed by a quarter. He said the total size of the Army (including active and reserve components) will decrease by 10,000 troops this year and between 14,000 and 21,000 in 2023.

Perhaps lowering the standards to meet targets is a question the service should ponder. Even though the quality is more important than quantity, in tumultuous periods like today, where the world is shifting from a unipolar world to a multipolar world, conflicts tend to ignite -- and the US -- one who has overseen the unipolar world for decades -- will fight 'tooth and nail' to maintain the status quo.

At least the youth have one thing going for them: obsession with violent video games has desensitized an entire generation to all sorts of violence where war might not be a big shock.

Remember, the service's recruitment crisis has been an ongoing issue but has worsened in the last few years. We pointed out it's "another signal of declining support for the federal government and its institutions."

Maybe because the military has gotten too 'woke'? You know the saying: "go woke, go broke" -- this can also happen to empires...

The shrinking pool of eligible youth due to obesity, low test scores, or drug use should be a national security threat to US health and security.
 

Abominable

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At least the youth have one thing going for them: obsession with violent video games has desensitized an entire generation to all sorts of violence where war might not be a big shock.
The old "violent video games" argument.

The US army needs to start paying for gender reassignment again. I'm sure they'll be flooded with recruits in no time.
 
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