Curious if this a reddit-wide thing (i.e. implemented by oligarchs) or something specific to that community.
Skiluros
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The key issue will be whether we can scale the production of home made missile and whether there will be funding to build out a industrial scale missile program.
More than 100 mostly elderly people were murdered between December 6 and 7 by a gang operating in the Cité Soleil neighborhood, one of the capital’s poorest, according to Haiti’s government and human rights groups. Gang members shot or stabbed victims to death with machetes and knives, and burned bodies in the streets, according to a statement released by the National Human Rights Defense Network (Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains – RNDDH).
The gang’s leader reportedly ordered the slaughter after being told that elderly people in the area were practicing witchcraft to harm his young son, who had fallen ill. He subsequently died on December 7, according to the RNDDH.
This is intense brutality, chaos and collapse of government authority.
This isn't political violence in the sense of supporters of different parties killing each other.
These are Mexican drug cartels killing and intimidating politicians to protect their turf, enable corruption and make it more difficult to fight them.
I am not necessarily arguing against what you're saying, just pointing out that what's going on in Mexico is primarily linked to drug cartels and not violent conflict based on ideology or political goals.
That's not good. I was hoping they would move towards more open, inclusive governance.
I guess we'll see how things develop, but this is not good sign.
I do believe this is true to some degree.
NK may be more fundamentally more aligned with China, but I do think NK at least tries to play them against each.
This does seem very strange. I don't understand why they would even bother with such a specific, minor tariff.
Perhaps some senior goon (i.e. pretty close to putin, not just a regular oligarch or a regional fief) has money in the furniture business? Still I would imagine it would be easier to implement some sort of local subsidy or corruption scheme as opposed to a tariff against China. It just doesn't seem worth it.
This is honestly a tiny tariff that has no real impact on trade between russia and China.
Oh, I am well aware, I live in Ukraine. :) I agree with you, but I am going to despair. Nothing good comes out of that.
I just don't expect any good faith actions from Trump or his appointees. Just the nature of oligarch rule.
Will take a look.
Not planning (hoping?) on getting fucked though. 😄
I tried to keep the discussion somewhat measured.
And yet you come up with "Admit you are wrong and stupid!" What? How? What is going through that head of yours? Are you a teenager? Do you really expect anyone to go through with this?
I guess it's on me that I expected something different.
You can fuck righ off, you shit eating lemming!
Saw the comment further down in the thread.
Fascinating stuff.
It's understandable though. I don't think US oligarchs are too concerned about security per se (US is sufficiently wealthy, on a compative basis, for anything approaching a real rebellion), but the whole situations does raise uncomfortable questions about their regime.