For the time being I think its a bluff and distraction to keep other issues out of the news. From his pedo escapades with Epstein to Israel's genocidal campaign.
“US orders more ships to Venezuela.” Should be the actual title.
For the time being I think its a bluff and distraction to keep other issues out of the news. From his pedo escapades with Epstein to Israel's genocidal campaign.
“US orders more ships to Venezuela.” Should be the actual title.
French assets hit by prospect of government collapse
Finance minister Éric Lombard. But he warned that there was a risk the IMF could step in if the government were to fall next month and subsequent administrations fail to tackle the country’s finances.
If they genuinely tried creating something now, with the social, economic and demographic environment at home, they would probably come up with their own version of the river elegy documentary.Pretty funny microcosm into the brain-rot that seems to be endemic across the American ruling classes where they are literally just running out of fresh ideas even in their most dominant field of mental gymnastics.
What an almighty fall from the days where western news was the news, and Hollywood controlled the world’s tastes. Now everything is a CHATGPT warmed up copy-paste of something done earlier; a reboot, a reimagining or an adaptation.
This is very close to the Indian psyche - spiting an enemy is as important as scoring a real physical victoryThey only want China to buy just so they could refuse to sell.
Imagine a world where on May 7th it was India who 6-0'd and shot down multiple J-10CE and JF-17 with no loses, how different would things be today.They could’ve been spared the current humiliation if only they didn’t drink their own koolaid and performed better on May 7th. Trump does not like losers who get seven planes shot down.
...The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Tuesday issued a high-flood alert for the Ravi River after India released additional water into the tributary.
Wasn't the Tempest 5th Gen? Before the J-36 and "J-50", the only country you could associate coming out with a 6th Gen was the US. Ironic because this video makes no mention of China and why any country talks about developing a 5th Gen without saying it's because of China is unheard of. Now all of the sudden it's a 6th Gen. I guess it makes it a little easier admitting it's too much for them hence why it's going to be "cancelled" at best. I mean how embarrassing for a country better than China who can't even come out with a 5th Gen let alone a 6th Gen. And if it were China that came out with a fighter that didn't have internal weapons bays, they wouldn't dare call it a 5th Gen. Mention the K-21 when by their own labelling, it's not a 5th Gen.
Zhou Enlai said Nehru was the most arrogant person he ever came across. Keep in mind Zhou has met countless leaders including those from nations who are actively hostile and flat out said they would like to see him dead. And yet he found those guys more tolerable than Nehru who kept bragging how he would destroy China if it didn't do what he said. Zhou generally is supposed to be the more diplomatic dove in China compared to other hawkish leaders and he still supported China should go to war with India.India will never be a friend of China. Zhou Enlai tried to end the border conflict already back in the 1950s by proposing mutual acceptance of border areas. China would get Aksai Chin and India would get what they call Arunachal Pradesh. India rejected it then and has rejected it since.
Don't fool yourself. India is only moving towards China because circumstances forced them to. There is great distrust among Indians, particularly the Hindutva types. Ironically, it's precisely these self-styled nationalists who were the biggest boosters of a US-India partnership. The left-secular Congress had traditionally favoured a more balanced foreign policy, closer to Russia and the global south.
For the Philippines, public sentiment is overwhelmingly anti-China. For Vietnam, it's more complex. The leadership is pretty pro-China but the people beneath the elites are more pro-US. This is weird, given the brutal Vietnam war. China's brief border skirmish was a nothingburder in comparison.
I think the main reason for all of this is the diaspora. Indian, Vietnamese and Filipinos diasporas are all very numerous in the West and this creates a natural cultural link to elites back home. China is a much more closed society, so there hasn't been the opportunity to create foreign diasporas. In addition, China was simply too poor to be attractive for immigrants until recently. For these reasons, people-to-people ties are scarce compared to what the West can offer these countries. China also has its own enclosed cultural space. India consumes lots of Western culture, whereas China largely does not except a few films on the margins.
Making a rational argument on economics is a very Chinese way of thinking, because Chinese people are pragmatic and rational. But people in global south countries often have emotional and social factors swaying their decisions. It's the same reason why elites in countries like Iran or Armenia keep running into the arms of the West even if it doesn't make much sense from a cold geopolitical standpoint. Because it's an emotional decision.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US knew and gave its blessing in the go ahead to India. The US is Dana White and India was supposed to be his new MMA prospect where White gave him an easy Pakistan opponent with a poor record, home crowd, biased referee and basically every advantage to win on the big stage. And then he got knocked out by his opponent in just one round viciously. Imagine how mad White would be after all that investment. Thats probably how the US feels after investing so much in India to be its new prospect to take on China.Imagine a world where on May 7th it was India who 6-0'd and shot down multiple J-10CE and JF-17 with no loses, how different would things be today.
You know that's probably what the US was counting in hence why they banned Pakistan from flying their F-16 on that day.