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European defense plants growing 3 times faster since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, FT reports The Financial Times identified 7 million square meters of new industrial development after tracking changes at 150 facilities across 37 companies, namely those associated with ammunition and missile p...

⚡️ European defense plants growing 3 times faster amid Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, FT reports.

Azerbaijan will allocate $2 million to support Ukraine’s power system damaged by Russian attacks. Under President Ilham Aliyev’s decree, the Ministry of Energy will use the funds to purchase and deliver domestically produced electrical equipment to Ukraine.

president.az/ru/articles/...

You travel to 1959 and meet a computer scientist.
Scientist: How good are the computers in 2025?
You: Great, you can talk to them.
Scientist: Ha ha! I can talk to my computer right now. I wanted to know, how good they are at math?
You: Not good. Not good at all.

USS Essex (1856) - Wikipedia

Could I get the USS Essex?

A random selection of BBC articles related to air-traffic disruptions as a result of personnel going on strike.

Off course we do, but we do it for good reasons. So people can go on strike.

How much of Gaza is left standing? Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction

“The studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide” www.economist.com/interactive/...

It's peak English cuisine. In order to be peak Scottish you'd have to run that baby through a deepfrier first.

1967 USS Forrestal fire - Wikipedia

I guess that assumes the damage control is on point tho.
In the real world things can spiral out of control real quick once a ship takes damage.
A good example is the 1967 USS Forrestal fire.
134 dead, 161 injured, 21 jets lost and 40 damaged, all because one zuni rocket misfired.

Worse. Czechoslovak legion groupie.

Who even cares about the Western front of WWI? It's boring. Trenches, mud and misery. Spend 50 000 lives to advance a 1/2 mile. Booh!!!
Eastern front's where it's at. War of movement, cavalry actually doing stuff, big dramatic swings in the respective fortunes of the two sides.

Despite tariffs now being paused at "only" 30%, US direct trade with China remains in freefall

In June, total imports were down more than 59% from January and hit the lowest levels in 21 years

Sweden, Denmark, and Norway will jointly provide $500M to fund U.S. weapons for Ukraine under the PURL (Priority Ukraine Requirements List) program, which ensures rapid delivery of key American defense systems, especially for boosting Ukraine’s air defense.

www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/n...

An diesem Tag, vor 30 Jahren, begann in Kroatien die Operation Oluja 95 (Sturm), mit welcher die südlichen und westlichen okkupierten Gebiete, von den serbischen Besatzern befreit wurden.

In nur 84 Stunden wurde der Mythos, dass man Serbien nicht besiegen kann, von der kroatischen Armee widerlegt.

IRIS-T SLM Reports Successful Ballistic Missile Intercepts Some thoughts on the role of IRIS-T SLM and IRIS-T SLM-like systems in ballistic missile defense

IRIS-T SLM Reports Successful Ballistic Missile Intercepts - It's rather fascinating what the IRIS-T SL... family is developing into, particularly with the SLX, when you compare it to it starting out as basically the idea "Let's fire off some IRIS-T missiles from the ground and see what happens".

YouTube video by Perun The Attack Helicopter Under Threat? - Vulnerabilities & Trends featuring @TheChieftainsHatch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZj...

Instead of doing it themselves you mean?

Racoon: what is this stuff?

Me: it’s our garbage

Racoon: it’s delicious, I understand why you chase me away from it, do you eat it?

Me: no we’re trying to get rid of it

Racoon: ok I guess I don’t fucking understand at all then

For the 248th day in a row, Rustaveli Avenue is blocked in Georgia. ✔️🇬🇪

Protests continue in 8+ cities. ✊

Freedom to political prisoners. Down with the Russian regime.

Sure, why not.
If you see this, post a #castle 🏰

Awesome! Doing that has historically always made things worse.

Remnants of the Iron Curtain Bratislava (Slovakia).

Memorial for the 400 men and women who were shot trying to escape to Austria during the Cold War Devín (Slovakia).

Traveling abroad freely notably not part of that "normal life".

Explosions hit the Central Asia–Center gas pipeline in Russia’s Volgograd region, knocking it out of service. The pipeline, owned by Gazprom, carries gas from Turkmenistan via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to Russia and supplies several military facilities.

"Time to team up"
With whom?

Local sources report that an Africa Corps operated helicopter attempted to intervene at Tenenkou but has crashed.
There are no confirmations of this as yet.

I won't be posting the other videos that are circulating due to their graphic nature but at least what looks like 3 Russian were killed and multiple Malian Security Forces.

Germany will send Ukraine two more Patriot systems, with launchers arriving in the coming days and additional units in the next few months. In exchange, Germany will get new Patriots from the US.
www.bmvg.de/de/presse/de...

@jay.bsky.team please reconsider the ban of ban Mira of Kyiv
@reshetz.bsky.social she is a Ukrainian who has done great work keeping all of us informed about the war in her country. I am sure any transgressions against TOS were the unintentional result of translation errors or reporting on events.

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* The graphs above show Real GDP growth Annual percent change per IMF datamapper. (I've noticed the screenshots don't actually say that. My bad.)
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Graph showing GDP growth comparison between India and China. Source: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/IND/CHN

But it's true China has been outperforming India (and most asian countries) until recently.

Graph showing GDP growth comparison between India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Source: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/IND/BGD/PAK/LKA

India also outperforms Pakistan and Bangladesh (arguably most similar countries) and they mostly kept pace with Sri Lanka outperforming it in recent years.