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@UtubeMemRnB We can totally read what you guys say.
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North Korea has a relatively open border with China and a few special economic zones where Chinese companies can operate. When someone leaves the DPRK, it's usually this way. A few also leave from official work abroad.
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@faisaldmdmalupco Jesus is not the first Messiah candidate the roman occupational authority executed at the time, and not the last. There is a slew of them, some of them drawing much more attention from Rome with armed uprisings.
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There are US bases in Norway and mainland Denmark. You have some sort of air base there already. Denmark is one of the more obedient NATO nations you got.
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I'm starting to appreciate the production of very basic stuff. Not the next generation of attack aircraft but basic shells. Or stuff like helmets, rations, drones. Covid made me nervous about short-staffing health systems like they were just in time systems that only had to function as long as everything was normal.
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It looked like all sorts of your institutions are farmed out. A state can rent institutional space from a contractor in another state to house everything from foster care to narcotics treatment. Sweden has started to contract hospice care and schools. It is impopular with voters but popular with politicians. Every now and then the last politicians end up on their boards or start their own commercial provider.
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Why you have private institutionalization is another matter. Right now, it looks like that sector is looking to expand with a whole new level of federal contracts.
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Your other social media companies have also built mass data gathering systems that would make Stasi drool. The main difference is that TikTok has foreign owners residing in a dictatorship. The EU forces your companies to not automatically collect as much information.
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My favourite part was when any chump with $8 could be the "official" company or org account.
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I usually think of gun owners in segments. In my country the hunter segment is pretty big. Their idea of firearms is a tool you use situationally. They might not like people taking a firearm to the pub or keeping one in the car. The few collectors I know might own a lot of firearms, but they are closer to people who own a huge amount of mechanical watches or Barbie dolls or guitars. They think of historical importance of uniqueness or interesting engineering. Of course all these overlap, too.
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The USA are one of the few nations using something like armed Air Marshalls. I always wonder how often they are needed.
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@Godfrey544 I think various Republicans from the last term described Trump as a man who can't read the Daily Brief, and needs to be either flattered or goaded, or given a dumbed down oral version. But I think a lot of your business leaders are partly showmen and personal branding.
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The Mother Church is sometimes a pretty decentralized organisation. The Holy See is sometimes run by local organization, sometimes by central edict, sometimes by doers.
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@TheAlastairBrown We have a labour conflict with Tesla right now. Not because they are moving in workers from India, but because they refuse all union contact. Personally, I think its not impossible to undercut an American with another, slightly more desperate American.
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@gsilva220 You already do escorted deportations routinely using chartered flights.
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I don't know what your FEMA uses, but a communication system is usually something civ authorities request help with here. Our national plan is to fall back on FM radio. People with a battery or hand cranked radio can listen in and receive information.
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It took until the 80's for South Korea to democratize. The modern South Korea we know today was not in place.
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I thought the US armed forces had to vaccinate for all sorts of weirdness that you don't see stateside.
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The mass conscript army my nation had during the Cold War meant you, for better or worse, served your mandatory period with a cut-out section of a generation.
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It reminds me a bit of Soviet interior troops and all their janky functions. Diverting every cop in the USA into ICE is definitely a cost. I assume you have many other tasks your cops must do.
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I think the typical techbro CEO wants to have a vision some engineer needs to figure out, and to talk others into investing.
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@MarcYanruw It would prove Castro right. There can never be anything but a client relationship to the USA. It's like watching the USA dismantle it's own hegemony.
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I have to be able to imagine that any sort of spy will try to create the kind of persona I will go for.
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One of my mates described it as easier to look at them as different regional autonomist or nationalist groups.
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For some reason people think us folks in smaller business have more beef with the government than we do with larger business. Smaller business here usually have their own branch organisations. We are one branch interest and they are another. I would be mighty upset if some blokes swooped in, "liberated" us and then it turns out peak liberty is a Koch monopoly on fertilizers.
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@equos5060 PiS is out of power now. The war has pushed Poland closer to the EU and NATO. PiS thought it would be possible to do what Orban did, and teeter as some sort of middle man. Orban on the other hand has pushed further from EU/NATO. A lot of the little nations trying to hold this middle man position are not necessarily friendly or allied with Russia.
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Right now I think the Israeli unwillingness for any Palestinian alternative to Hamas is the other step to overcome. Bibi has a way of saying different things depending on who he stands in front. Partly in order to balance his own coalition, partly to be the realpolitik man he thinks he needs to be.
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Rwanda is also only nominally democratic, which is a little awkward. They keep contributing blue helmets. Things are a bit awkward currently, with a Rwandan proxy militia attacking Kongo-Kinshasa and killing a bunch of UN troops in the process.
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Too bad the candidate talks about pet thieves instead of auto accidents. Auto accidents was among the top three causes of death for young people in the USA, next to opioids and firearms.
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I've started to think it's very much an old total war production conflicts. Everything from MREs to gloves to shells to helmets. Everything is a consumable.
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The EU is sending a lot more cash. Part of the EU foreign policy toolkit, when lacking hard military power, is to use its industrial and financial clout. This usually meant peacetime civilian and government development funds. But a lot of the Ukrainian state and armed forces are funded with EU aid at the moment.
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I think that showed just how populist opportunism works.
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@danburnes722 It's perhaps the hardest part to grasp from the outside, just how relatively few Americans are hardcore party folks, trying to figure out if the big-tent parties even have ideologies and just how much is down to your support of local faces. If I describe a euro christan democrat or liberal-conservative or green or social democratic party I can assume they have an ideological unity.
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@looking4themountain I think the USA really likes having cheap workers, but pretends not to. Sergio Aragones did a comic strip on immigration where a bunch of dudes in sombreros build a wall.
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@gsilva220 What happens if you start shooting inside a cargo plane?
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Regarding oil fields: Syria has a miniscule production. It is among the microweights of international producers. This was an important government revenue source, especially as the rest of their civ economy collapsed from the war. What is a piddling amount of resources to a nation is a huge wealth for non-state actors like Daesh and later Rojava or Wagner.
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Belarus is currently an aggressor nation. Letting your territory be used for troop movements makes you one even if the Belarus armed forces aren't in Ukraine.
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I would think dumpster diving and fishing is easier for a modern day bum.
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From what I understand of the cartels, they have little interest in replacing the central government. The cartels have split and reformed numerous times and have become pretty paranoid about eachother. Which is still pretty gnarly when twitchy, jumpy sicarios are not sure. A failed state is a void, a whole different levels of buggery. They exist and they are a whole lot scarier. A lot of nations fighting active armed rebellions with partial territorial control are not failed states yet.
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I think the House of Saud would act differently without the possibility of a carrier group to show up. Same for Turkey without NATO membership.
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gfgh1234 The traditional reason in a European early modern period army was that the army pays better than day labour.
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How seasonal is US agriculture labour? If I was to work a seasonal job, I would either need to earn enough for the downtime between, or have other jobs to support myself on. Tourism and the Norwegian fishing are both seasonal industries here that try to earn money for the off season in a few, intense months.
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Snowfall is by nature seasonal work. You need a lot of machines and people in a weird burst. We can activate home guard for some civic emergencies. I haven't seen it for snow clearing. Home guard has done missing person searches. Sometimes we want any terrain vehicle out there, or 200 people to canvas a forest.
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I think the US system ensures you must have gobs of money to break the law.
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@johanmetreus1268 NATO opinion changed dramatically in Sweden and Finland.
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@AnonD38 I thought modern self-pripelled artillery during artillery duels did the same.
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@jsncrso This is mostly about pressing Ukraine. Whatever Trump and Putin agreed on requires Ukraine to obey. The groups Musk visits are not the reps of a strong, united Europe. He is going around to the weakest quislings he can find who are just waiting to appease Russia even further.
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@OutsiderLabs It depends a bit on how much cooperation with the USA is worth. And that is rapidly shrinking.
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@Zenerd775 It is one of the weirdest part to grasp in Europe. I could not grasp how the social democrat party, the conservative party and the christian democrat parties could just flip places. The most radical shift in my corner was the agrarian parties. When farmers were a large block of people they sometimes had their own interest parties. But only 1-2% are farmers today, and that does not make a party. So they became a more general small town liberal party.
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Jeff Bezos is not sitting around waiting for a chance to stop busting unions. I am personally pretty weary of people fretting on my behalf, only to tell me the real pay was culture or honour or some other bollocks.
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