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@riteshgoel5750 > Iraq Afganistan Syria Libya
That's a false equivalence.
Unlike Russia, the US did NOT assimilate Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iran, Kuwait, and Yemen into US federal structure.
>Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden
>Libya
NATO STOPPED the bloody civil war in Libya.
Putin STARTED the bloody war in Ukraine.
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 17 March 2011 in response to the First Libyan Civil War. The Security Council resolution was proposed by France, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom.
Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and win stupid prizes.
>Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq STARTED the bloody war in Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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@solarflare2199 For Iraq,
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
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@duniavirtual7112 The period of Indonesian occupation was marked by violence and brutality. A detailed statistical report prepared for the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor cited a minimum of 102,800 conflict-related deaths in the period between 1974 and 1999, including approximately 18,600 killings and 84,200 "excess" deaths from hunger and illness. Portuguese, Indonesian, and Catholic Church data estimated 200,000 deaths. The East Timorese guerrilla force (Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste, Falintil) fought a campaign against the Indonesian forces from 1975 to 1998.
The mess is Indonesia's NOT the west.
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East Timor is a full member state of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, an international organisation and political association of Lusophone nations across four continents. In each of those nations, Portuguese is an official language.
Brazil and Portugal are the major powers for Lusophone Commonwealth.
Lusophone Commonwealth's Defense component, In 2016, CPLP revised its cooperation protocol in defense, affirming the organization in the promotion of peace and security.
The 2017 Exercício Felino military exercise taking place in Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, Resende, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aims for the increased interoperability of the armed forces of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste. The Parliamentary Assembly of Lusophony is the body that brings together the representations of all the Parliaments of the Member States, constituted on the basis of the respective electoral results of the legislative elections.
Lusophone Citizenship
Easing citizens' cross-border movement between the member states was proposed at the 2017 CPLP Summit.[30] This proposal by Portugal and Cape Verde to Brazil was thought by some to conflict with Europe's Schengen area. However, this free movement is based on a different model: as residence permits, associated with the recognition of academic degrees and professional qualification, and maintenance of social rights including pension systems. It would henceforth establish Lusophone citizenship.
Brazil has a nuclear-powered submarine and Sweden's Gripen E (F-39). As the rising power of Brazil coupled with Portugal partner, the Portuguese speakers have their own transnational Portuguese interest. The relationship between the raising power of Brazil and the smaller Portugal mirrors the relationship between the larger USA and the smaller UK. Brazil has a large landmass (linked to mineral wealth) and a large enough population size to be near super-power.
Work in progress CANZUK initiative is the English-speaking version of Lusophone Commonwealth's Lusophone Citizenship.
Lusophone Commonwealth's integration is far more advanced when compared to the CANZUK initiative.
Russia and China are NOT the only groups reverting back to historical empires.
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@abhimanusingh66
Land Area for potential raw materials with the war of attrition context
Canada = 9.985 million km² (CPTPP member)
Australia = 7.692 million km² (CPTPP member)
UK = 242,495 km² (soon to be CPTPP member)
NZ= 268,021 km² (CPTPP member)
Subtotal: CANZUK group's 18.187 million km²
United States = 9.834 million km²
Japan = 377,975 km² (CPTPP member)
Europe = 4.233 million km²
India = 3.287 million km²
Russia = 17.13 million km²
China = 9.597 million km²
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West's joint hypersonic agreements
Japan-US
AU-UK-US
Israel-US i.e. Arrow 4.
UK-JP's Meteor replacement with the Joint New Air-to-Air Missile (JNAAM) program.
India is not part of the 14 Eyes Alliance.
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Brazil and Portugal are the major powers of the Lusophone Commonwealth. Larger Brazil and smaller Portugal relationship mirror the larger USA and smaller UK relationships.
Lusophone Commonwealth's Defense component, In 2016, CPLP revised its cooperation protocol in defense, affirming the organization in the promotion of peace and security.
The 2017 Exercício Felino military exercise taking place in Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, Resende, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aims for the increased interoperability of the armed forces of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste. The Parliamentary Assembly of Lusophony is the body that brings together the representations of all the Parliaments of the Member States, constituted on the basis of the respective electoral results of the legislative elections.
Lusophone Citizenship
Easing citizens' cross-border movement between the member states was proposed at the 2017 CPLP Summit.[30] This proposal by Portugal and Cape Verde to Brazil was thought by some to conflict with Europe's Schengen area. However, this free movement is based on a different model: as residence permits, associated with the recognition of academic degrees and professional qualification, and maintenance of social rights including pension systems. It would henceforth establish Lusophone citizenship.
Brazil has a nuclear-powered submarine and Sweden's Gripen E (F-39). As the rising power of Brazil coupled with Portugal partner, the Portuguese speakers have their own transnational Portuguese interest.
The relationship between the rising power of Brazil and the smaller Portugal mirrors the relationship between the larger USA and the smaller UK. Brazil has a large landmass (linked to mineral wealth) and a large enough population size to be near super-power.
Work in progress CANZUK initiative is the English-speaking version of Lusophone Commonwealth's Lusophone Citizenship.
Lusophone Commonwealth's integration has progressed deeper than the CANZUK initiative.
Brazil has placed higher importance on Lusophone Commonwealth over BRICS.
You're overselling India's importance.
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@adarshgarhwal747
From US EIA
In 2021, a large share of Europe’s supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) originated in the United States, Qatar, and Russia. Combined, these three countries accounted for almost 70% of Europe’s total LNG imports, according to data by CEDIGAZ. The United States became Europe’s largest source of LNG in 2021, accounting for 26% of all LNG imported by European Union member countries (EU-27) and the United Kingdom (UK), followed by Qatar with 24%, and Russia with 20%. In January 2022, the United States supplied more than half of all LNG imports into Europe for the month.
Exports of LNG from the United States to EU-27 and the UK increased from 3.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in November 2021 to 6.5 Bcf/d in January 2022—the most LNG shipped to Europe from the United States on a monthly basis to date, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s LNG Monthly reports and our own estimates, which are based on LNG shipping data. Rising U.S. LNG exports are the result of both natural gas supply challenges in Europe and the sizable price differences between natural gas produced in the United States and current prices at European trading hubs.
Natural gas supply constraints in Europe and the low storage inventories of the past year contributed to recent increases in U.S. LNG exports to Europe. Europe’s natural gas production has been in continuous decline because of production limits on the Groningen field in the Netherlands and declines in the mature fields in the North Sea. To meet demand, Europe’s natural gas imports, particularly from Russia, have increased in recent years.
Pipeline flows of natural gas from Russia decreased during 2021. Pipeline receipts from Russia at the three main entry points (Kondratki in Poland, Greifswald in Germany, and Velke Kapusany in Slovakia, which combined account for 14.3 Bcf/d of import pipeline capacity from Russia) averaged 10.7 Bcf/d in 2021, compared with 11.8 Bcf/d in 2020 and 14.1 Bcf/d in 2019, according to data by Refinitiv Eikon. More natural gas delivered by pipeline from Norway, which increased from 10.4 Bcf/d in 2019 and in 2020 to 11.1 Bcf/d in 2021, was not enough to offset reduced pipeline receipts from Russia.
Supply challenges in the European market have led to rising regional prices for natural gas. The natural gas spot price at the Title Transfer Facility (TTF) in the Netherlands—the most liquid virtual natural gas hub in Europe—has been trading at all-time high levels. The TTF price averaged $28.52 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) from September 2021 through the first week of February 2022. The TTF price peaked at $60.20/MMBtu on December 21, 2021. Prior to this sharp price increase, the TTF price had averaged $9.28/MMBtu from January through August 2021, $3.28/MMBtu during 2020, $4.45/MMBtu during 2019, and $6.45/MMBtu from 2014 through 2018.
Historically, spot natural gas in Europe has traded at prices lower than LNG spot prices in Asia. In recent months, however, natural gas prices in Europe have closely tracked LNG prices in Asia. On some days, the natural gas price in Europe has exceeded the LNG price in Asia, attracting higher volume of flexible LNG supplies to Europe. LNG imports to Europe increased in December 2021 and January 2022, averaging 10.8 Bcf/d and 14.9 Bcf/d, respectively, partly in response to the price at TTF rising above LNG spot prices in Asia.
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@yogiahmad328 Indonesia wasn't part of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations.
Dutch controlled Java, Sumatra, and most of the Indonesian archipelago.
When Napoleon fell from power and the French left Holland, the Dutch and the British signed The Treaty of London in London 1824. This treaty stated that all colonies that belonged to the Dutch from 1801 be returned to the Dutch Administrators.
In 1801 the British took control of Minahasa, which is a region located on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
In 1814, during Napoleonic rule when the French were occupying Holland, the British arrived on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. The British established Fort York as headquarters, which was later renamed Fort Marlborough. Due to the power shift to the British the leader of the Java people became Lieutenant Governor Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles.
Governor Raffles proposed to the Indonesians a partial self- government and the land-tenure system. The land-tenure system threw out the much-hated agricultural system that had been put in place by the Dutch. The land-tenure system was a system where crops were grown and were given freely to the government. This is different from the system in place under the Dutch, which was that the crops were grown by the citizens and the government took them without paying for them. Governor Raffles also ended slave trade, restored the native temples in Indonesia, and allowed research to be conducted on many topics.
When Napoleon fell from power and the French left Holland, the Dutch and the British signed The Treaty of London in London 1824. This treaty stated that all colonies that belonged to the Dutch from 1801 be returned to the Dutch Administrators.
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@alcapone7867
That's a false equivalence.
Unlike Russia, the US did NOT assimilate Iraq into the US federal structure.
>Yugoslavia
9 February 1994: At UN request, NATO agreed to authorise air strikes, declared 20 km total exclusion zone around Sarajevo and required Bosnian Serbs to withdraw heavy weapons from zone or place them under UN control within 10 days; also called on Bosnian Government to place heavy weapons in Sarajevo under UN control. Agreement between 'RS' and Bosnian Government to a ceasefire in Sarajevo, negotiated by Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Rose, then Commander of UN forces in Bosnia.
>Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden's group in Afghanistan has executed strikes inside the US.
>Libya
NATO STOPPED the bloody civil war in Libya.
Putin STARTED the bloody war in Ukraine.
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 17 March 2011 in response to the First Libyan Civil War. The Security Council resolution was proposed by France, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom.
Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and win stupid prizes.
If, however, you are referring to the NATO intervention in Libya, that was NATO agreeing to enforce a United Nations Security Council Resolution. It was never intended as a permanent expansion of the Alliance to embrace Libya nor to establish a NATO base in the country.
>Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq STARTED the bloody war in Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992 <----- note the 1992 year
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq STARTED the bloody war in Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992 <----- note the 1992 year
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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@MikeOxlong- As of 2015, the Moldovans are no longer the largest single group of the Transnistria region (being surpassed by the Russians).
According to the last census in Transnistria (October 2015), the population of the region was 475,373, a 14.47% decrease from the figure recorded at the 2004 census.
By ethnic composition, the population of Transnistria was distributed as follows: Russians - 29.1%, Moldovans - 28.6%, Ukrainians - 22.9%, Bulgarians - 2.4%, Gagauzians - 1.1%, Belarusians - 0.5%, Transnistrian - 0.2%, other nationalities - 1.4%. About 14% of the population did not declare their nationality.
October 2015 Transnistria Census beats your ignorance.
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@hammadhussain9779 >u created fake grounds for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
FALSE. Iraq-Kurdish victims are winning European court battles against European companies that provided chemical components for Saddam's WMDs. LOL.
In Iraq,
Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government since its formation had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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According to the Iraqi-Kurdish regional government, Iraq's WMD exist.
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@Czhr43jh6hyx >But when US organized a coup in Ukraine in 2014 to get to the Russian doorstep
Putin: "I don't want NATO on my bnorder!"
Putin the next day: "Imma annex this country so I'm directly sharing a border with NATO."
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Before Euromaidan, Russia successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kyiv, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Article 17
The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is false when Yanukovych breached the 1996 Ukraine Constitution's Article 17.
Victoria Nuland's grandparents on her father's side are Ukrainian. You can't handle the truth when anti-Russian Ukrainian descendants are backed by NATO's military and economic firepower.
1. 1863–1864 January uprising, Russian Empire crushed Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian insurgents uprising.
2. Soviet–Ukrainian War occurred between 1917 to 1921, a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic vs the Bolsheviks i.e. Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (modern-day Russian Federation).
These "old world" issues existed before the US being a superpower.
The US's involvement with Ukraine is by Ukrainian descendants who fled the Soviet–Ukrainian War that occurred in 1917.
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@Czhr43jh6hyx >Territory of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia was purchased by Peter I from Sweden King
Both Sweden and Russia are "old world" imperialist European powers.
Estonia won the Estonian War of Independence against both Soviet Russia and the German Freikorps and Baltische Landeswehr volunteers. Independence was secured with the Tartu Peace Treaty, signed on 2 February 1920.
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In 1558, Tsar Ivan the Terrible of Russia invaded Livonia, starting the Livonian War. The Livonian Order was decisively defeated in 1560, prompting Livonian factions to seek foreign protection.
The majority of Livonia accepted Polish rule, while Reval and the nobles of Northern Estonia swore loyalty to the Swedish king, and the Bishop of Ösel-Wiek sold his lands to the Danish king.
Russian forces gradually conquered the majority of Livonia, but in the late 1570s the Polish-Lithuanian and Swedish armies started their own offensives and the bloody war finally ended in 1583 with Russian defeat.
As a result of the war, Northern Estonia became the Swedish Duchy of Estonia, Southern Estonia became the Polish Duchy of Livonia, and Saaremaa remained under Danish control.
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These old-world issues existed before the US being a superpower.
"Livonian factions to seek foreign protection from Poland" against Russia have evolved into Estonian factions seeking foreign protection from the USA against Russia. 😂🤣😅
The same old imperialist Russia.
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@TheMoor8654 Government Entity means (a) any federal, state, provincial or similar government, and any body, board, department, commission, court, tribunal, authority, agency or other instrumentality of any such government or otherwise exercising any executive, legislative, judicial, administrative or regulatory functions of such government or (b) any other government entity having jurisdiction over any matter contemplated by the Operative Agreements or relating to the observance or performance of the obligations of any of the parties to the Operative Agreements.
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@StevenSmith-mk5fg >the Russians are still saying they have no plans to invade
Russia already invaded Ukraine by slicing out Crimea and integrating Crimea into Russian Federation's federal structure.
>and wish to talk
Putin's talk is a list of demands
Putin: “Speaking of security guarantees … our actions will not depend upon the negotiations, they will depend on the unconditional compliance with Russian security demands”.
The main articles of Russian draft proposed agreement demand included eight articles with the following points:
Article 1: the parties should not strengthen their security at the expense of Russia’s security;
Article 2: the parties will use multilateral consultations and the NATO-Russia Council to address points of conflict;
Article 3: the parties reaffirm that they do not consider each other as adversaries and maintain a dialogue;
Article 4: the parties shall not deploy military forces and weaponry on the territory of any of the other states in Europe in addition to any forces that were deployed as of May 27, 1997;
Article 5: the parties shall not deploy land-based intermediate- and short-range missiles adjacent to the other parties;
Article 6: all member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization commit themselves to refrain from any further enlargement of NATO, including the accession of Ukraine as well as other States;
Article 7: the parties that are member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization shall not conduct any military activity on the territory of Ukraine as well as other States in the Eastern Europe, in the South Caucasus and in Central Asia; and
Article 8: the agreement shall not be interpreted as affecting the primary responsibility of the Security Council of the United Nations for maintaining international peace and security.
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For Article 1, Israel sells missile technology to Eastern Europe while Russia sells missile technology to Israel's adversaries.
For Article 3, Being labeled adversaries are based on action and behaviors. Finland, Poland, and the Baltic states have purchased Israeli missile technology and have historical PTSD issues with Imperialist Russia. There are no US nuclear-armed missiles in Eastern Europe.
For Article 4, Russia's demand to degrade NATO's Article V enforcement.
For Article 5, Israel sells missile technology to Eastern Europe while Russia sells missile technology to Israel's adversaries. There are no US nuclear-armed missiles in Eastern Europe. Finland is not a NATO member.
For Article 6, Russia demands to restrict counties in Eastern Europe's freedom of association.
For Article 7, Russia's demand to degrade NATO's Article V enforcement for NATO members in Eastern Europe.
For Article 8, Putin's bullshit statement.
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@solaroid4442 How is Japan able to function with a debt to GDP ratio of 250%?
Because sovereign debt is not debt as you and I know debt. It is debt in name only. Liabilities in the accounting sense only, not a future obligation.
The government doesn’t go to Citibank for loans; the government bails out Citibank when Citibank gets into trouble. If you are a government with its own currency, why would you need to borrow that currency from anybody? It is a ridiculous proposition on its face. Yet people cannot seem to get past the word “debt,” and most don’t bother to understand how this gigantic “debt” came into being.
Here is how it works in the U.S. (all fiat currency economies operate in much the same manner): Treasury issues bonds and sells them to the private sector; then the government spends the proceeds right back into the economy. The private sector gains financial assets (bonds); the government records more liabilities (bonds, reserves, and cash are all government liabilities). The Fed (our central bank) buys bonds in exchange for reserves it creates on the spot in the normal course of business, as they see fit. So the government is able to alter the makeup of their liabilities in the private sector, as all of those liabilities are interchangeable.
Treasury obligations held by the central bank as assets against bank liabilities are often counted as part of the “national debt,” but they shouldn’t be. In any sane description, the central bank is part of the government; it is like your left pocket owing your right pocket money.
Notice that in none of the above transactions does the government really borrow any private sector assets. Deficit spending results in a net addition of financial assets (money) to the private sector. Dollars aren’t used, taxed away, tied up, or otherwise made unavailable to the private sector; in fact, the private sector has gained money, income, and aggregate demand in the deal.
So sovereign debt is nothing like your mortgage debt. It does not make it more difficult for the government to create and spend money in the future; interest payments are simply paid for with new money; and most importantly, it costs the government nothing in real resources to create and spend assets into the private sector while holding the liabilities indefinitely. And these government liabilities (bonds, reserves, and cash) are held by the private sector as debt-free assets.
To answer your question, Japan isn’t burdened by interest payments, because the government creates money at no cost. And they aren’t burdened by “paying off the principle” because all government liabilities are interchangeable - the central bank can exchange bonds for yen (or vice versa) with a few keystrokes; no pre-existing money has to be amassed. It is just accounting.
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Russian currency doesn't have the luxury of large market's US Dollar or EU's Euros, countries like Australia with similar GDP to Russia's GDP must carefully track their government spending.
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@soreeyez >globalists EU listen to Trump
False narrative.
The United States remained Europe’s top supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first 3 months of 2021 as it continued to gain market share at the expense of Russia and Qatar, Europe’s second- and third-largest sources of LNG, according to the EU Commission’s latest European Gas Market Report.
The US supplied 24% (4.2 Bcm) of the EU’s overall LNG imports (17 Bcm in Q1 2021); Russia placed second at 21% (3.7 Bcm); and Qatar was third at 18% (3.1 Bcm), the EU Commission reported in early July.
When compared to Q4 2020, the US picked up 2% market share from January to March this year, while Russia bested Qatar to become Europe’s second-largest LNG supplier. Nigeria placed fourth, followed by Algeria and Trinidad and Tobago.
A review of EU Commission reports dating back to 2019 reveals a steady quarter-to-quarter decline in Europe’s LNG purchases while it also documents the growing rivalry between the US and Russia, Qatar’s fall from dominance, and the emergence of the US as Europe’s top LNG supplier starting Q4 2019.
The EU is the world’s third-largest LNG market, though its imports amounted to only about half that of Japan (36 Bcm) and China (32 Bcm) in Q1 2021.
European gas consumption rose 7.6% to 132 Bcm in Q1 based on a year-on-year comparison. The commission noted that demand for gas as fuel to generate electricity rose 3.4%, also year-on-year (increasing by 4.9 TWh.)
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January 29, 2021
Today, the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the island of Krk in Croatia and its connecting pipeline have been officially inaugurated by the prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenković. The construction of the new LNG terminal and Omišalj-Zlobin gas pipeline, connecting it to the Croatian gas transmission system, have received a total of €124 million EU funding through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).
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June 24, 2020
WARSAW, June 24 (Reuters) - Poland has signed contracts worth 1.9 billion zlotys ($483 million) to expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Swinoujscie on the Baltic Sea to 8.3 billion cubic metres (bcm) by 2023 from 5 bcm now in response to increasing domestic demand.
An LNG unit of Poland’s gas infrastructure operator Gaz-System and the ports of Szczecin and Swinoujscie on Wednesday signed a contract with a consortium of Porr and TGE Gas Engineering on the expansion project.
“The terminal gives us the flexibility of receiving gas from different parts of the world,” Piotr Naimski, a minister responsible for energy infrasructure, told a news conference.
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@Darko-kn6il >take out US in that alliance and see how they will fare against Russia in an open field war.
FYI, the US has more than 110,000 troops in mainland Europe (EUCOM, United States European Command) which are similar to the year 2005 numbers. Starting from 63,000 troops in Jan 2022 to more than 110,000 troops in late March 2022.
Western armed Ukraine has bog down the Russians while the US builds up their EUCOM troop numbers.
US has more than 45,000 JAVELINS, 150,000 logistics trucks, and 125,000 Humvees. The US can "zergling rush" the Russians. US still has older LAWs anti-tank weapons in stockpiles.
The F-16s and F-35s' single-engine configurations were designed for the WW3's total war of attrition.
Note the reason for Putin threatening nuclear weapon usage against NATO.
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@soreeyez >It's involved in military operations in the Middle East,
Turkey is a NATO member. LOL.
>Africa
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
NATO was involved in the second phase of Libya's war and after France runs out of precision bombs. LOL.
NATO ran Operation Allied Protector, a counter-piracy operation. Russia was also involved in counter-piracy operations. This is a defense operation.
> Asia too.
For central Asia, the US invoked Article 5 against Afghanistan due to Osama bin Laden.
List of NATO operations
16 July 1992 – 22 November 1992, Serbia. (Europe)
16 October 1992 – 12 April 1993, Bosnian airspace. (Europe)
22 November 1992 – 1993, Adriatic Sea. (Europe)
13 April 1993 –20 December 1995, Bosnian airspace. (Europe)
15 June 1993 –2 October 1996, Yugoslavia. (Europe)
30 August –20 September 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Europe)
20 December 1995 -20 December 1996, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Europe)
21 December 1996 -19 June 1998, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Europe)
20 June 1998 -2 December 2004, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Europe)
24 March 1999 –10 June 1999, Kosovo and Serbia. (Europe)
12 June 1999 -Present, Kosovo (Europe)
27 August 2001 -26 September 2001, Macedonia, (Europe)
9 October 2001 –16 May 2002, United States airspace.
16 October 2001 –9 November 2016, Mediterranean Sea, Maritime counter-terrorism and anti-trafficking/
20 December 2001 – 28 December 2014, Afghanistan (Central Asia)
26 February 2003 –3 May 2003, Turkey, Border defense.
8 October 2005 –9 February 2006, Pakistan earthquake relief. (Central Asia)
17 August 2009 –15 December 2016, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean, Counter-piracy (Piracy in Somalia). (Africa)
27 March 2011 -31 October 2011, Operation Unified Protector (UNSC Resolution 1973), Libya (Africa)
December 2012 – present, Turkey, Border defense.
1 January 2015 – 12 July 2021, Afghanistan.
2015 – present, Europe.
Your argument is pointless.
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@deniscicic8074 >Ukraine is not sovereign and independent country at this moment. It is a puppet of US/UK , result of coup d'etat
1. Before Euromaidan,
Russia, however, has successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kiev, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
2. Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17 .
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting for either NATO or CSTO. HAHAHAH,
In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases. LOL.
3. Victoria Nuland herself doesn't have the power, but about 73% of the MPs—voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine" has the power.
Don't assume Ukraine's president has absolute power when 73% of the MPs have voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine".
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@adrianroksa7250
Ukrainian's ethnic groups
Before WW2,
Census 1926
Ukrainians: 80% (23,218,860)
Russian: 9.2% (2,677,166) <------
Census 1939
Ukrainians: 76.5% (23,667,509)
Russian: 13.5% , (4,175,299). Russians flooding into Ukraine.
After WW2.
Census 1989
Ukrainians: 72.7% (37,419,053)
Russian: 22.1% (11,355,582) <------
Census 2001
Ukrainians: 77.5% (37,541,693)
Russian: 17.2% (8,334,141) <------ //Post Soveit Union, Russians heading back to Russian Federation.
Russia slicing Crimea (2.4 million population) from Ukraine has further increased Ukrainian's proportion.
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The differences between Ukraine vs Russia are similar to differences among the Germanic language majority countries. Russia is attempting to keep it's European colonial empire.
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@henryseidel5469
Date: Jan. 7, 2010
Yanukovych: Ukraine will remain a neutral state.
"It’s certain that Ukraine was and will be non-aligned state… We strive neither to join NATO nor the [CIS]CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization]. We’ll maintain a neutral status," Yanukovych said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine newspaper.
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The trigger for Euromaidan was Yanukovych initiated non-neutrality policies such as joining a trade block instead of executing Switzerland-style neutrality.
UK leaving the EU and joining CPTPP proves freedom of association.
Before Euromaidan,
Russia, however, has successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kiev, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
Some trade background for the context
From Tradebarrier Index (lower score = less trade barriers)
New Zealand's tariff score is 2.92
Australia's tariff score is 3.03
UK's tariff score is 3.94 (after Brexit)
Japan's tariff score is 4.05
US's tariff score is 4.54
Germany's tariff score is 4.88
EU's tariff score is 4.88
Russia's tariff score is 6.16 <--------
China's tariff score is 6.8 <------
Russia wants to maintain its higher trade protectionist policies.
Victoria Nuland herself doesn't have the power, but about 73% of the MPs—voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine" has the power.
Don't assume Ukraine's president has absolute power when 73% of the MPs have voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine".
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Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17.
In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases.
Your narrative is wrong.
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@nathannataatmadja3349
At the lowest point in the Philippines and the US relationship, the Philippines lost territory to China. Feelings are useless without firepower to back them.
China's action on Mischief Reef started around 1995, shortly after the US navy left Clark airbase in Subic.
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China blocked Australia's and New Zealand's marine park proposals in Antarctica. It is the eighth year the proposal has been knocked back, with China and Russia voting the proposal down on previous occasions. This caused Australia to enlist help from the EU while New Zealand enlist help from the US.
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The Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng) were a series of military campaigns launched by the Qing dynasty of China in the mid–late 18th century during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796).
President Xi's argument is based on historical Imperial China's Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng).
They included three to enlarge the area of Qing control in Inner Asia: two against the Dzungars (1755–1757) and the "pacification" of Xinjiang (1758–1759).
The other seven campaigns were more in the nature of police actions on frontiers already established: two wars to suppress the Gyalrong of Jinchuan, Sichuan, another to suppress the Taiwanese Aboriginals (1787–88), and four expeditions abroad against the Burmese (1765–1769), the Vietnamese (1788–1789), and the Gurkhas on the border between Tibet and Nepal (1790–1792), with the last counting as two.
Faced with a powerful China in the northeast and a resurgent Siam in the southeast, Burma's King Bodawpaya and his army invaded eastern territories of India, hence bringing the rising British East India Company into the fray which defeated the Kingdom of Burma. British East India Company is allied with mostly Hindu Maratha Empire.
President Xi's argument is based on historical Imperial China's Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng).
There's nothing new under the sun.
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@Michael Kopischke
Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government (since its formation) had demanded from the Iraqi federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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The Iraqi WMD issue is NOT yet over when Kurdish victims are suing European companies in the EU court system who sold chemicals to Saddam.
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@tsubadaikhan6332
China has an anti-foreign "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" protectionist policy.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about AU's reciprocal policies.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@kedsau Chile example,
USSR has supported its Cuban proxy that in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende. You're a hypocrite.
Marxist Salvador Allende clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état.
Marxist Salvador Allende's presidential branch effectively declared war on the judiciary and right-wing majority governed Congress branches.
During the 1970 Chilean presidential election, both the United States and the Soviet Union poured money into this election through their intelligence agencies and other sources.
💰KGB money was more precisely targeted. Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende. The original allocation of money for these elections through the KGB was $400,000, and an additional personal subsidy of $50,000 directly to Allende.[8] It is believed that help from KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39,000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast. After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure Allende victory in Congress. In his request on 24 October, he stated that KGB "will carry out measures designed to promote the consolidation of Allende's victory and his election to the post of President of the country".[8]
You're a hypocrite.
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