Do they have permission from the Iraqi government, which is after all supposed to be a friendly government? Or is this another case of sovereignty not mattering when it’s inconvenient for the US? (Won’t even bother asking about Syria.)
After all the angst and drama over whether Turkey will allow Sweden into NATO, it’d be hilarious if the accession gets sunk by Hungary.
Like, during the many months other NATO members were pressuring Turkey, no one thought they should worry about Hungary too?
To avoid this, Gazan civilians who are out in public should wear black clothing and masks, and move tactically between points of cover.
Missed opportunity for “not great, not terrible”.
Steel is a complex manufactured intermediate good, not just a raw material that you dig out of the ground. Steel products and production methods evolved rapidly over the course of the 20th century, and the downfall of British steel was because they couldn’t/wouldn’t upgrade their tech and how their industry was organized.
The same could have once been said of the British steel industry…
Over geologic time, the vast majority of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. It’s not particularly meaningful to try to divine the reasons for the extinction of any one particular species. Obviously, the subtext they are trying to convey here is “these were apes, and climate changes drove them to extinction; we are apes, so won’t anthropic climate change drive us to extinction?!1!?” But it doesn’t carry over like that.
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The thing is, individual citizens can’t reform the police, or ambulance services, fire brigade, or power utilities, all of which have been gutted by the ANC. All they can do is to pay, out of pocket, for private sector replacements. No one is arguing that this is better than having working public sector versions in the first place, but that’s not achievable until the national government gets totally overhauled (if it ever happens).
This is what happens as the state gets hollowed out by decades of ANC corruption and misrule.
The one time the CCP backs away from clamping down on the private sector, it’s over video game microtransactions and gacha. Go figure.
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Honestly, many of these reforms are urgently needed and long overdue, such as lifting export controls—it’s literally insane that a country facing a shortage of foreign exchange would deliberately crimp its own exports. For these parts, Milei has a pretty good justification for issuing an emergency decree.
The big gamble Milei is taking is to stuff the package with a bunch of lower-priority items that, while arguably needed, are hard to defend as emergency measures. (This is quite similar to what the US government has often done, see e.g. the Inflation Reduction Act.) This increases the risk of the package being voted down, which hasn’t happened before with his predecessors’ decrees.
Bad title. An entire army division (10,000 to 20,000) surrendering would be a spectacular event. Turns out the article is talking about “some (~180) soldiers from a division”, which is totally not the same thing.
After a century of Peronism, the current state of Argentina isn’t a case study about libertarianism. Quite the opposite.
These sanctions are marketed as being aimed at military applications, but the dirty little secret is that high-end semiconductors are irrelevant for military tech, which overwhelmingly uses previous-gen semiconductor tech.
These particular measures are dumb, though.
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Guess this is dating me, but everytime I see this I flash back to the classic rant…
Mr. Howe! Is there any other kind of drone? You, you tell me right now. Is there any other kind of drone, drone, other than a pilotless drone? Isn’t that what a drone is, an unmanned aircraft? Don’t you check these things? Don’t you supervise the subeditors who write these headlines? Don’t you do your job?!?