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TEL AVIV, June 23. /TASS/. Weapons that the West supplied to Ukraine has already been detected near the Israeli border, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post newspaper in an interview.

Looks like someone in the Ukrainian government decided making some money is more important than fighting against Russia.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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Lol yeah sure when Harvard reaches 100% Chinese Americans then I would be happy to support affirmative action as well. They just reached less than 30% admission for all Asians. That's pretty freaking far from dominating admissions and now already have discriminating policies against asian and you're trying to justify it.

I see you having a negative view on most things Chinese. Why wouldn't Harvard be Harvard with 80% Asian students? It was Harvard when it was 100% white.
No one complains or ask for "diversity" on American sports like the NBA when it's athletes are 95% Black-Americans from Asian-Americans and other ethnic groups in the U.S. for some representation or to reflect the multicultural/racial tapestry of that country because we all know that the moment that noise is made, it'll be quickly slap down or even laughed off (RIGHTFULLY SO) as RIDICULOUS not just from Black-Americans but more than likely from Asian-American groups fearing that they'll be ridiculed as a group and laughed off.

@Petrolicious88 will just about justify everything under the sun that's being done against Asian/Chinese descent for myriad of f..d up reasons as he wonderfully exhibited in his prior posts regarding the supposed "need" for affirmative action in academic institutions fearing that it'll become too CHINESE for his liking. In my opinion, our friend here is already slick with his take on the Chinese government policies, system of government and just about anything that China is not doing right in his assessment.

China isn't without flaws, faults, or blemishes that needs urgent but prudent and wise handling whatever the issues. But the insane amount of criticism hurled at the country, people, political system, even its history and historical legacy is quite insidious, disgusting, disingenuous, unhinged, and dangerous. The level of debate is never fair, the burden of proof, guilt are always heap against China and her defenders automatically labelled as 50 cent army, wumaos etc...among other insulting label primarily designed to disrupt, discombobulate, and destroy any sane discussions about the country's failures and SUCCESS that is often minimized, trivialized as inconsequential, unimpressive due to "repressive regime/policies"....

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So @Petrolicious88 posts provide nothing substantive or offer anything that can be described as an erudite contrarian. At least, one can glean or learn something from another's point of view that's not hidden or laced with your typical western shitlib take. His opinions in my opinion are nothing of the sort other than to gloat when China is perceived to be in decline or made a monumental blunder (handling of Covid-19, financial crackdown, evergande, private tutoring, space, AI LLM), not a crime or offensive, but his effort just comes across as agenda driven rather than being on this forum willing to learn, change or modify views on whatever pre-conceived bias against China in it's totality. The guys arguments, views, and style of debate almost come across like his from the land of many different gods, yoga, and Modi.
 
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GodRektsNoobs

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Looks like someone in the Ukrainian government decided making some money is more important than fighting against Russia.
To think that there will be no blowback to NATO supplying weapons to Neo-Nazi groups such as Azov would be insane, yet that's exactly what they did. The West is literally creating 10 new problems for itself for every "problem" it attempts to solve, as the case of Russia containment and Iraqi WMD.
 

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Recent Hunter scandal news (after over a year of censorship) on MSM feels like somebody finally had enough and is looking to keep Biden from reelection.


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that her real problem was she started looking for economic cooperation with China, and so lost US support. This might be inaccurate, if anybody is living there and familiar with the matter.
Myanmar’s “Freedom Fighters” Slaughter Singer Who Disagreed
The BBC, in a June 8
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titled, “Lily Naing Kyaw: Killing of Myanmar singer unnerves pro-military celebrities,” shows opposition figures gloated over and celebrated Lily Naing Kyaw’s murder on Facebook.
US-backed Separatists Kill Civilians Because they Feel “Oppressed, Cheated”
US government-funded media platform, Radio Free Asia, in a June 11
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titled, “Armed group attacks Vietnamese police stations, 39 people arrested,” quickly adds below the headline the caveat, “reasons behind attack in Central Highlands unclear, but people in region have felt oppressed, cheated.”
 

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That's not exactly true. Titanium is one of the most corrosion resistant metals out there, short of being a noble metal like gold or platinum.

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The USCG reported that the rescue rover found the titanium ends from the submersible intact, so the best working theory is the carbon fiber tube shattered/imploded. Most people don't know that carbonfiber parts are made from layers of thin carbon fiber webbing that are glued(epoxied) together. Those type of parts have a shelf life, especially after years of repeated drives/stress where the layers slowly come apart from microfractures in the epoxy.
not to say that Ti corrosion caused the failure but electrochemical potential alone is not the sole determinant of corrosion resistance. It doesn't take into consideration corrosion resistance from passivating native oxides. Al is much more corrosion resistant than mild steel due to the nonporous oxide layer despite a lower electrochemical potential.
Despite Titanium's corrosion resistance, I think perhaps galvanic corrosion could still be at play here. What is the electrode potential difference between them (Titanium and Carbon Fiber)? If it's high enough, we've found one potential answer to the cause of this catastrophe.


Good thing there aren't carbon fiber tubes that carry hundreds of people all over the world and under go lots of pressurization/depressurization cycles! ..wait
Like what? Aircraft only undergo 1 bar of pressure cycling at worst, submarines undergo 300 bar of pressure cycling.
The sub was in compression cycling while aircraft go through tension cycles.

Carbon fiber is really good in tension but bad in compression. Also, different scale.
yea no kidding, there are orders of magnitude difference between the pressure a container is exposed to at 11 thousand feet underwater and at aircraft cruising altitudes.
Absolutely loving this active lesson in humility.
 
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