Basically, military service for 16/17yos? I'm against it, but it's honestly not that crazy given that Singapore, the US, and Germany allow military service at 17 with parental consent. Canada also allows people to join Military Colleges at 16. It's unclear how parental consent will play into this in Russia.
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Putin Promotes 'Self-Sacrifice' in Russian Schools as Grade Schoolers Build Weapons to Fight Ukraine
The victims? Primarily Black. The perpetrators? Primarily white.
There is no ethnocide in America.
Hundreds, thousands, millions. It's all the same because people died and the people that died weren't white.
Didn't a bunch of Muslim countries actually ask China about Uyghurs (and even visit Xinjiang) and they left unanimously content with the response?
Winter tires, then a winter driving course, then AWD. In that order.
This is indeed me
Caps on Russian oil price, restoration of original Ukraine borders, prosecution of Russian "war criminals"
It's what you'd expect from a country that's completely winning the war and not stuck in a stalemate while losing support
Radio Free Asia, truly the most unbiased media source.
Back in 2018 people weren't really sure what the primary drivers for Uyghur extremism were. Even the US was striking "ETIM training camps" near China: https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/1435247/us-forces-strike-taliban-east-turkestan-islamic-movement-training-sites/
US oil is predominantly used for transportation (67%) and industrial (27%) applications.
China, meanwhile, has seen a massive shift to electric vehicles for what I believe to be partially strategic reasons: electric-powered vehicles can be powered by coal power plants instead of oil. As a result, China is estimated to peak in oil demand this year. China also has massive reserves of shale oil, but lacks the water supply to make fracking economically feasible in the near-term.
Frankly, I don't think oil is the big problem you make it out to be. As China increasingly electrifies it's primary oil-consuming sector, China's oil supply gap will become less and less prominent. By 2030, I anticipate that EVs will dominate China's transportation industry and essentially equalize the supply and demand sides.
How? A 65 million unit surplus is more or less in line with other countries: 65/1400 = 5%. At an average family household size of 3, that gives an aggregate household vacancy rate of (up to) 15% (ignoring, of course, that not everyone who owns a home has a family). This also ignores how things like second homes, vacation homes, and excess rural housing stock is counted (given that, y'know, China has had a massive rural-to-urban migration over the past few decades).
The US census reports a vacancy rate of about 10%, and even New York has a vacancy rate of 3%.
Approximately 89.6 percent of the housing units in the United States in the second quarter 2023 were occupied and 10.4 percent were vacant.
All Ukraine said is that Russia deployed 15000 men to Bakhmut and that Ukraine fighting in Bakhmut keeps them from being redeployed to the Zaporizhzhia front... Sensationalist titles, much?