Nigeria will be the big loser if they ban Meta’s free and widely used services. No tech company could function if every banana republic levies hundreds of millions of fines when they don't even generate that much revenue in those markets.
Don’t be daft, he’s assuming the father thinks the business is legitimate. No salary would be worth it if you know it was an illegal business as you creditors will come knocking.
Go has also been my go to choice for backend for many years, but these days I feel it’s almost like malpractice not to use Typescript. The advantages in productivity & code robustness were just too great. With libraries like zod & trpc, Nextjs api routes/RSC, I don’t see how Go can compete for simple CRUD apps or quick prototyping.
I’m getting second hand embarrassment watching you try win an argument you lost decisively 3 replies ago.
Your comment: “Huawei hardware cannot be legally distributed or sold by US companies.”
You were dead wrong. Just admit it, it’s not personal.
“Does the fact that I bought it from an US website, mean that Sony is effectively selling this gadget in the US? Of course not, that's ridiculous.”
You can’t be this naive. This is 2023 not 2001. Sanctioned companies selling through distributors has been around since sanctions. US laws have explicit rules around this and companies facilitating are themselves subject to sanctions.
I'm not even sure how to make sense of what you wrote. How did you conclude everyone on the globe will get a Chinese social credit score if China becomes #1 economy in the world?
Most people outside the West don't necessarily clamour for Chinese hegemony, but want to live in a multipolar world. Why should trade between non aligned countries have to be restricted when US decides to weaponize its currency?
I think it's telling you don't mention what exact 'special forces gear' were provided. As far as I can tell all that was provided were some machine guns and helmets, and don't see any mention of anything useful like night vision goggles, radios etc. Even if these forces were fully specced, SF equipment for a few hundred soldiers would make zero impact on a conflict like Ukraine.
It's interesting to see lately how people use their pet random social/political issue and try draw some parallel with the Russia/Ukraine war.
More likely they’d be wondering what all those extra people were doing in the first place when they realise Google is still operating as usual and churning out features and products.
Why are you being dishonest? You know damn well Israel has no intention of ever relinquishing Golan Heights back to Syria, under any circumstance, whether peace is achieved with Syria or not, and their government has said as much whenever the topic comes up. [1]
> Ukraine and Russia were not at war before Russia, as you note, launched the war.
Says who? I think the Ukrainians would disagree with this assessment. They’ve been at war with Russia since they seized Crimea and sent their proxies to occupy parts of their country.
That’s nonsense, international law is international law, there are no carve outs and loopholes for what US deems “legitimate security interests”. Russia used this exact same pretext to launch its war in Ukraine.
And the annexation far precedes the current regime by decades.
If I understand you correctly, you’re saying if a country is attacked by another nation state, they’re entitled to seize the territories that was used to launch the attack if they win the war, like some kind of war loot?
I'm not sure whats more incredible, that the US once again votes against any resolution seeking accountability for Israel's brutal occupation of the Palestinian territories or the Western media's mute response to it, especially in light of the current conflict in Europe. What reasonable justification could there possible be to vote against the ICJ to produce an opinion? Yet the US is currently seeking to take Russia to the ICJ for its actions in Ukraine.
The US & Western governments have absolutely zero moral standing at all to criticise Russia's illegal annexations of Ukrainian territories when they themselves turn a blind eye to their allies annexation of another neighbours territory (Golan Heights, Syria). Despite there being an existing UN resolution (497) rejecting the annexation, the US under Trump has formally recognised Golan Heights as US territory in 2017! [1].