A Bayraktar drone factory that was being built by Turkey since 2022 and was supposed to start operations this month got struck. Who could of guessed that building factories inside a country that is actively at war is maybe not such a great idea.
I'm even seeing some Redditors on non-political subreddits praising China's handling of AI compared to the US. Not long ago it would have been a very tall order to find anyone saying anything pro-China whatsoever on Reddit outside of very specific places like r/sino.
This is why I keep saying that electricity generation is a much more reliable measure of a country's overall economic strength then GDP, countries will naturally find ways to consume as much electricity as they can and there is much less room for voodoo in the calculations. That would place China at already being over 2x the size of the US economy and place Russia as the 4th largest economy rather then the 11th behind countries like Canada and Italy which is just plain absurd.
When measuring the true economic strength of a country I think you should simply just look at what it actually produces. Actual things like electricity, food, construction materials, etc. Russia is far above Spain in all those metrics.
A full and comprehensive film about Unit 731 would be up there with movies like Human Centipede 2 in terms of being dark and disturbing. The shit they did was cruel even by Axis standards.
A couple weeks ago I went to the hospital for an unrelenting cough that was starting to tear my back and rib muscles. Got there, had to wait over 3 hours from them to take a couple X-rays. Then told me it's probably just allergies and then they didn't even have any basic cough medicine and told me to pick it up at Walmart which I couldn't because it was past 11pm and they were closed. Billed me $400 dollars and now I'm 99% sure it was a covid cough and not allergies.
Luckily I've haven't been seeing that many pinning the blame of this censorship push on wokeism, just a metric ton of "We are becoming like China/North Korea".
I stick almost exclusively to single player games like Silent Hill, Sekiro, Resident Evil etc. nowadays and avoid the whole online culture entirely, spares me all the brainrot.
We went from having a senile man in office throwing money at Ukraine and sponsoring genocide in Gaza, to having a senile man in office throwing money at Ukraine and sponsoring genocide in Gaza.
Oreshniks in LatAm kinda sounds like an extremely major game changer, because then the mainland US could be targeted with non-nuclear weapons and just massively shift the balance overall.
China becoming more attractive for researchers to study and stay is vital and would put a definitive nail in the US's coffin. For proof you only need to look at lists of developer names for AI models, whether the models be from China or the West.
Because socialist movements how a far greater chance of succeeding in a world where major powers are divided rather then the US/NATO having absolute dominance and control. If the US has no major rivals they are free to use their resources on playing world police and smother socialist country or movement before it has the chance to get off the ground. Obviously, worldwide socialism is the ultimate goal, but multipolarity is the most feasible next step towards that.
Not surprising to me in the least, Spotify has been consistently showing their colors and all you need to do is look how big they were in being pro-ukraine in 2022. A complete no go for me.
The DPRK is built around self-sufficiency as a founding principle, and as such can do whatever they want. Iran is more self-sufficient then most, but still can't tank sanctions the same way.
The DPRK has a defensive alliance with China which of course makes the west more hesitant to bomb them while Iran for the most part is alone.
As a poster here from Iran has said, there might be a dangerously high number of liberals in Iran's government who want to be accepted by the west rather then stand up against them.
A Bayraktar drone factory that was being built by Turkey since 2022 and was supposed to start operations this month got struck. Who could of guessed that building factories inside a country that is actively at war is maybe not such a great idea.