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eagleal
·Hôm kia·discuss
> War is less imminent now than ever

You can always make your enemy. Current rearming efforts really remind historians of WW1 arm races.

At some point once so much interests and offers are at stake, that creating the demand is inevitable and just a matter of time.
eagleal
·14 ngày trước·discuss
Even the latest World Bank report, the defacto neoliberal institution, recognized a couple of months ago that leaving the industries focus be dictaed by purely capital decisions was bad, as in _really_ bad.
eagleal
·17 ngày trước·discuss
Do not know Germany's specific tax code, but in most EU countries should a control fire up it would result in tax evasion (not even tax avoidance), as in this case Germany can easily demonstrate the center of control is in fact in Germany.

Especially as you will have to file tax forms and disclosures for your salary.

You guys might want to take a consultation with a proper accountant/tax advisor for these setups.
eagleal
·18 ngày trước·discuss
Units will use any reinforced or cover position to carry their objective.

Even roofs of civilians apartments, let alone reinforced structures such as hospitals, town halls, schools, etc if they can't use alternatives.

Even antique frontal wars used terrain to their advantage. That's why we wrote rules of engagement, but if the bigger powers themselves abuse them, how can you expect militias that have to carry guerrilla or urban tactics to stand by them?
eagleal
·18 ngày trước·discuss
> Firing from schools, hospitals and resendential buildings.

I really don't want to descend into countless counterexamples, but that's how virtually every military or militia wages war, including the IDF. I assume your confusion on this issue may be due to a lack of familiarity with the subject.

Usually never ever has anything to do with malevolence (eg. in an attempt to use the counter strike as a propaganda story). More often, it's just a matter of convenience, logistics, and the realities of operating in populated areas.

If there's one thing that CIA manuals on training militias stressed on, or any military history book in that regard, it's that soldiers need to be fed and supported. Or they'll find ways to meet those needs without you.
eagleal
·24 ngày trước·discuss
Yes of course, but that's only the admin.

The strong minority base that has been artificially inflated to advance the personal interests of the leadership has linear roots dating back to the XX century rhetoric promoters and activists. In Europe there's the militant and militia groups of Gladio and the likes that thrived in illegal affairs and that have persisted and were integrated into power following 90s (case in point in Italy Berlusconi basically legalizing the MSI, AN, FdI and Lega by using his privately owned televisions and media, to acquire an election victory).
eagleal
·24 ngày trước·discuss
Caesarism/kleptocracy is definitely a more accurate description.

People usually attribute the term fascist to this admin, because of the racial/ethnic retaliatory actions or the neonazi/neofascist base they need to overpower/outweigh the more moderate right.
eagleal
·24 ngày trước·discuss
There's a limit to orbit at your desired location similar to what real estate is. At some point it becomes scarse and consolidation will happen.

At a time when state actors are becoming increasingly non-cooperative, it may not be wise to put all your eggs in someone else's basket.
eagleal
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Japan, Italy and UK have a program for a competing F35 design, GCAP. And Japan is focusing mainly on the engines.

Given there will at some point be the need to deliver competing cruise missiles for this platform, and after the crisis of the US not being able to keep demand with Israel's and Ukraine's orders they greenlighted SK and Japan to enter the European defense market, to answer your question yes, this is of course a defense related project.

There's been an industry request to develop native defense components on these matters within the EU following pressures and contrasts with the US (on a report to the EC for the ReArm campaign, EU's biggest playes of aerespace industry made a joint report estimating 60-80% of their components and tech are sourced from the US).
eagleal
·2 tháng trước·discuss
The Wiki has been a highly contested political/propaganda ground since its inception. My personal opinion is that it pretty much has endured just because the generation that formed the community back then was probably less susceptible to bias manipulation through social channels, because they didn't exist to this extent.

A famous case is the CAMERA's takeover of key administrator positions in Wikipedia back in 2008, but in local communities it went probably unnoticed.
eagleal
·2 tháng trước·discuss
> We need global open congestion data. At least on the european scale.

Congestion data was also used to track the advancing Russian army invasion in Ukraine's urban area according to the probably sponsored articles on Bloomberg for Project Maven.
eagleal
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Do not know about the US, but some countries publish some type of high profile cases but _only_ after anonimization for obvious privacy reasons.

To access the DB through the modern archive (well modern as new rules) you'd have to be an accredited professional passing through a few legal hardles and digital chancellor's office for each copy. It's like going to a bureaucracy^bureaucracy office.

Some early companies given their initial foothold were not required these checks so they were able to get hold of bigger archives (it's also important to remember often legislation or conformity is done through consulting or lobbying done by these entrenched players).

They can also build on the Data professionals themselves submit.
eagleal
·4 tháng trước·discuss
> I don't think Iran can take a sustained air campaign for that long

Most probably, but Israel and US are now being more conservative with interceptor targets though so that seems to go both ways.
eagleal
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Russia _recruited_, not mobilized as usually in popular conception that would equate with conscripted.

Conscription is enforced with martial law only in ukranian territories, by both the official ukrianian government, and by the russia's occuption forces in donbas.
eagleal
·4 tháng trước·discuss
There's also the theory of the attacks starting at a certain time because the talks for the nuclear were under way. They probably knew the iranian leaders would group together to discuss the details.

For example it is now common knowledge that IAEA shared reserved data with Israel INT agencies, and this info was used for the previous strikes.
eagleal
·5 tháng trước·discuss
This is a valid tool for intelligence and propaganda operations, for both USA and Israel (since they have access to whatever.

In this age this is akin to funding and arming a militia in a foreign country, or what would've been on old times preemptive land operations.
eagleal
·5 tháng trước·discuss
It's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country.

In Italy for example RT website is blocked.
eagleal
·5 tháng trước·discuss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554
eagleal
·5 tháng trước·discuss
In Italy there's a politician named Gasparri who has made a career (30+ years) of barring himself behind Parlamentary immunity and insulting on citizens/journalists. When they respond he sues them for libel or similar asking moral damages.
eagleal
·6 tháng trước·discuss
Not long ago there was the story of an orangutan in the wild using a paste it made from plants to heal itself, like some sort of anti-bacterial/anti-inflammatory.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123