thethirdgracchi

Fair enough, I'll definitely agree that it's better than open warfare between India and China. Thankfully feels like we're lightyears away from that outcome, especially given BRICS.

Unfortunately this is not wholesome at all; those Indian soldiers are getting the Chinese soldiers to say "Jai Shri Ram," which is effectively a Hindu nationalist slogan. It's the kind of slogan that Hindu nationalists chant directly before engaging in pogroms against Muslims and Christians. They're doing this today of all days because this week Hindu nationalists are celebrating the opening of a temple to Rama at his supposed birthplace that was a sacred mosque (the Babri Masjid) burned down during the 1992 Hindu nationalists riots that killed hundreds of Muslims.

EDIT: In fact it was exactly this slogan that the Hindu mob shouted right before burning down the mosque, so a very obvious fascist dogwhistle here.

The absolute legend of a man as he is, he gets cash, gifts, and letters galore sent to him in prison. He knows he's achieved complete victory. I'm sure he's kept well abreast of the fallout as it continues. https://www.thedailybeast.com/shinzo-abe-assassin-tetsuya-yamagami-gets-worshipped-as-a-god-in-japan

nononono you don't get it, China only growing at 5% a year is very bad because it's bad because their economy is slowing day because they only had 5% growth it's only 5% their real estate sector is fucked ok you can't do that real estate is important you can't manufacture your way to growth growth means assets go up line goes up bro it's bad 5% is not good it's bad 5% bad no don't look at the US GDP numbers no

Mainly because the euro is not the global reserve currency and they can't just do tax breaks for everybody. They don't even have a real central bank, they're at the mercy of Germany for large euro monetary policy. France is the only major power in the EU that wants to develop European strategic autonomy from NATO/America, and they need military spending to do it. Plus it's good for French industry, as France is like the only country in the West that produces weapons instead of just buying from the Americans.

Nah, not in the same way anyway. France economically is actually a brightspot in the EU. They get most of their power from their nuclear plants, so they've been relatively unaffected by no Russian gas. Macron's government is just deeply unpopular, still reeling from the mass protests around raising the retirement age, and desperately trying to appeal to a population increasingly sympathetic to the fascist far right.

Too busy with problems at home. He just sacked his Prime Minister and replaced them with a young twink (Gabriel Attal) in the hopes that this will distract the French people from their own problems.

Imagine thinking some airstrikes can stop this. The courage of Yemen will be remembered for millenia.

The Allies were really insistent that Prussia be eliminated once and for all. What better way than make it a Jewish state?

RETVRN to the Principality of East Frisia, the Archbishopric of Mainz, and the Free City of Lübeck

Damn, those strikes really worked, it stopped Yemen from firing on cargo ships for around checks notes 12 hours. Here's the most recent "incident", just reported. From here: https://www.ukmto.org/indian-ocean/recent-incidents#

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