Jussi

In a potential indicator of Russia's post-Putin foreign policy, intelligence services loyal to the balding man sitting on the right spent 8 years trying to kill the bearded man sitting on the left

Världsledande forskarna: USA inte en demokrati USA är inte längre en demokrati. Det slår forskare fast – ett halvår innan världens största demokratimätning publiceras. – Just nu har USA med råge passerat gränsen till en autokrati, säger Staffan Li...

According to a Swedish team of researchers the US is objectively no longer a democracy but an electoral autocracy, in the ranking system they use.

www.expressen.se/nyheter/varl...

I was going to suggest calling everyone Dr. until I realized that wouldn't help much in German.

Yeah maybe the US should participate too.

Onkohan tässä taka-ajatuksena selvitä näin pari vuotta eteenpäin ja yritys rauhoitella esimerkiksi luottoluokittajia?

Toinen asia joka tuli mieleen: joko kreikkalaiset kuittailee suomalaisille EU-kokouksissa? Timo Soinilta voisi kysyä oliko Kreikan painostaminen viisasta.

Time to block the Independent.

On the other hand, if the Tomahawk has better precision and/or other attributes that makes it more likely to hit a certain spot deep inside Russia, a couple dozens of them might be a good investment. If the question of how to launch them isn't too difficult to solve.

The Tomahawks seem like a psyop to me, surely Ukraine can use the money better? According to wikipedia the export price of a Tomahawk is $4m while a Flamingo costs $500k. Unless the plan is for the US to pay for the Tomahawks it doesn't seem to make sense.

Trump's Travelling Circus.

Did this with a mate once when we changed the clutch disc on a Fiat 133. We didn't use a mattress though. :D

A weird thing to say, considering how many died in captivity.

He has at least been consistent in his opposition to military aid to Ukraine. But when Russia collapses he will probably write a column saying how inevitable it was.

I'll give it two months.

I think the interest in this particular case was mostly because there were reports of some kind of accident on board? Diesel fuel leaking on the inside was mentioned.

Or preparing the ground for something, full mobilization perhaps.

At least most farmers and fishemen voted for Brexit, small and medium sized business owners didn't. But everone was thrown under the same bus, and still no strategy for how to put it right again.

Obviously depends on the circumstances, but in most cases more true for the winning side?

I think that neither side is going to win a decisive victory on the battlefield in the near future. So while the frontline is where the resources go, victory will be decided by which home front collapses first.

The lie is the actual point. It doesn't matter if almost everyone knows it's a lie, the goal is to stop people caring about the truth.

It's too early to discuss a new path forward, status quo in EU-China relations is fine for now. A lot depends on how the war in Ukraine ends and how Trump's trade war ends.

It's better not to mention China at the moment. We know they are actively aiding Russia in their war against Ukraine and Europe, it's better to monitor and prepare countermeasures in silence.

Yes, the damage is already done in that sense.

Not sure if European autonomy is actually in the US's interest, they will most likely lose huge future arms sales. But Trump will mos likely be dead by that time.

You can see Iran's absence as irrelevance, but also as a sign that not all issues have been addressed yet. Nevertheless, Trump deserves some credit for the process.

A peace summit without Israel and without Hamas. Everyone except the belligerents is on board.

Well the agreement was forced on both parties, it's not unlikely that they both have some red lines which will make it difficult to get past the first few steps of the plan.

I think that curbing the amount of packages shipped directly to customers from overseas needs to be done, it's a customs nightmare and so on. But obviously needs to be done in an orderly manner.

Riippuvuudesta täytyy tietenkin pyrkiä eroon mahdollisimman nopeasti, mutta siihen menee vähintäänkin vuosia.

Ymmärsit varmaankin että tarkoitin turvallisuuspolitiikkaa, koska valitettavasti olemme toistaiseksi riippuvaisia amerikkalaisista aseista, tiedustelutiedoista jne. Tämähän on syy miksi esimerkiksi EU hyväksyi niin kehnon kauppasopimuksen USA:n kanssa.

Voi olla noinkin, ja sitten on tietenkin yleiset syyt eli yleiseurooppalainen tarve pitää USA ainakin jossain määrin samassa rintamassa.

Toisaalta jää nähtäväksi onnistuuko rakentaminen Teksasissa. Lopuksi voi vielä todeta että osaaminen tavallaan meni kun telakka myytiin ulkomaisille omistajile.