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ficker22

ficker22

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BoraTas said:
Japanese military suffers from the unholy combination of
- Military being a low respect and low pay occupation
- Literally dwindling number of young people
- No conscription

This problem is the same with Germany's. This is among the primary reasons why you hear them "getting themselves armed again" annually yet no drastic change in force compositions happen. As far as I can remember, articles about Japanese and German remilitarization (I find this term funny considering their existing spendings) were common in even ~2012. Yet the progress was just incremental. No serious change happened. In 2022 both increased their budgets substantially but I don't expect anything drastic. Most of the new budgets will go to increased salaries to keep enough people enlisted.
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We adress the shortage of people in uniform with absurd high pay, a private gets 2000€ before taxes plus money for every day and every kilometer he is from home in his base.


Lieutenants (basically 21 year olds when starting right after high school) get almost 3k€ base after taxes plus the aforementioned subsidees regarding away from home.


And it still doesnt work because half of those people you attract are money hungry greeds and not really fit for service.
 
siegecrossbow

siegecrossbow

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Chevalier said:
I thought Prigozhen was going to nominate himself for ukraines presidency?
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654304093584908290

India has now shut down the internet in Manipur and sending in the death squads. The record of Indian conduct towards those in the northeast is not pretty. Rapes similar to what you saw in Rwanda is the norm for Indian soldiers in the seven sisters.
And nothing from the Anglo mouthpieces…

I can’t help but laugh at how westerners huff their own Coolum rather seeking truth from facts.
for eg, they tell themselves India will help fight China for them little realising that they’re basing their defence strategy on the fighting ability of the Indians who historically have tended to be the conquered as opposed to warrior races.

secondly, because of that supposed “promise” to fight China, the Indians take advantage of white western desperation by forcing western nations to import huge numbers of Indians who will take key positions in the legal, business, politics sectors, promote their cousins and just leech off the industry of the west.
All because the west cannot abide treating China as an equal. Now they will have to answer to an increasingly powerful china and a leeching class of domestic bloodsuckers.
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Super Power 2030 is, in fact, a prophecy!
 
daifo

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KYli said:
Why would think these American politicians want you stinking Chinese being here? They would prefer taking your money and sending you back to China.

From their prospective, there are no regular Chinese as all Chinese are commies and spies. You and those wealthy Chinese and elites and liberals think to highly of yourselves. In the end of the day, Chinese ranks bottom that below blacks, Latinos or Russians.
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Bit of a strange comment. Are you mad that there are Chinese people living in the US and they deserve hate? Don't seem that you understand the racial dynamics of the US. As I have said before, the Chinese are just rejoining the other color folks , rather than perched as the model minority.
 
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pmc

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obj 705A said:
The former Russian deputy defence minister Mikhail Mizintsev joined Wagner.
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You know how people talk about revolving doors, that when officials do something for a private company they get rewarded with a job in that company.
Col Macgregor says Mizintsev was fired not only because he was doing a poor job recently but also because he was illegaly sending some military equipment (more specificaly engines) , if he was sending that equipment to Wagner then that would explain alot.

Macgregor says Prigozhen has political ambitions in Moscow and hopes that at some point he would nominate himself for president, that may be why he likes to film himself alot to gain popular support for his political carrier. That could be the reason why Wagner was reportedly cut off from all supplies by the ministery of defence, it's possible that the higher ups in Moscow (possibly Putin himself) want to take Prigozhin and Wagner out of the picture.
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Russia is technologically advanced version of Soviet Union. Alot of deception, discretion and sophisticated approaches. This Wagner person has collected global people and by constantly talking against Russia MOD he will try to gain trust and find out more about his people in the organization. Just look at Sudan evacuation. without Wagner ground work those planes and military vehicle escort not possible. with planes there is that extra risk when there is no airpower escort like US provided for the West.
If you want to dig deeper. there are now more flights added to Azerbaijan.
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Well, at least Tim Cook puts the money where his mouth is: iPhone 15 will be made in China. Decoupling is easier said than done.
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One of the companies (Wistron) making iPhones in India is winding up their Indian business and selling their factory to Tata group.

Tata was recently infamously leaked to have only a 50% yield on the outer casing of the iPhones. The Indian government will likely need to give a lot of money to Apple to continue production…

It’s okay, according to WSJ, Samsung has the answer for “de-risking”.

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Samsung’s success was also related to market factors that could be hard for Apple, for example, to replicate. Samsung’s smartphone market share in China was battered in the mid-2010s
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So to successfully de-risk, just totally fail in the Chinese market! Are you listening Cook? Elon?
 
coolgod

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obj 705A said:
The former Russian deputy defence minister Mikhail Mizintsev joined Wagner.
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You know how people talk about revolving doors, that when officials do something for a private company they get rewarded with a job in that company.
Col Macgregor says Mizintsev was fired not only because he was doing a poor job recently but also because he was illegaly sending some military equipment (more specificaly engines) , if he was sending that equipment to Wagner then that would explain alot.

Macgregor says Prigozhen has political ambitions in Moscow and hopes that at some point he would nominate himself for president, that may be why he likes to film himself alot to gain popular support for his political carrier. That could be the reason why Wagner was reportedly cut off from all supplies by the ministery of defence, it's possible that the higher ups in Moscow (possibly Putin himself) want to take Prigozhin and Wagner out of the picture.
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Most of Chinese internet says Prigozhen's videos complaints is a trap, meant to entice Ukrainians to counter attack. Macgregor's analysis is bull, Prigozhin and Putin are pretty tight.
 
FriedButter

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654452965674188801

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Ukrainian Officials resorting to punching Russian Officials at a Turkish meeting.

Ukrainian MP punches Russian official at summit in Türkiye​

A fistfight broke out at a summit of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) in Türkiye’s capital Ankara on Thursday, where members of the Ukrainian delegation attempted to disrupt a meeting involving Russia. Olga Timofeyeva, acting head of the Russian delegation, told RT that guests had been “shocked” by the actions of their Ukrainian colleagues.

While Timofeyeva was delivering a speech, several Ukrainian guests came up behind her, unfurling a large Ukrainian flag and what appeared to be a banner belonging to a Ukrainian military unit.

The group then scuffled with officials who attempted to escort them away. The session resumed after the flags had been removed.

The Ukrainians behaved “aggressively” and chanted anti-Russian slogans, Timofeyeva, chair of the Parliamentary Civic Society Committee, told RT shortly after the session. She added that members of other delegations had been “shocked by their attitude.”

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US Sets $500 Million for Taiwan Arms on Ukraine-Style Fast Track - Bloomberg

Sale marks first time US has used the authority for Taiwan
Pentagon and White House declined to comment on Friday

The Biden administration is pulling together a $500 million weapons package for Taiwan, using for the first time a fast-track authority that it has relied on to speed arms to Ukraine, people familiar with the matter said.

The package will involve sending existing stockpiles of US weapons or support equipment to Taiwan under what’s known as a Presidential Drawdown Authority, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations. The equipment to be in the package wasn’t immediately known.
 
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