the f-35 has been upgraded into the unmmaned drone division and you terminal leftists think thats a bad thing

callout to the German Kyrgyzsian friendship.

The Indian government seems very inclined to break down relations with Canada for a pathetic separatist movement which has near zero support in India itself.

“I guess we’ve got a pilot in our house, and he says he got ejected.”

That was the 911 call received in Charleston County, South Carolina, after an F-35B Lightning II fighter jet's pilot ejected Sunday, parachuting into a home's backyard, according to audio released by the county government.

In the 911 call, the dispatcher at first appears surprised by the caller: "I'm sorry — what happened?"

"We've got a pilot in the house, and I guess he landed in my backyard, and we're trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please," the caller responds.

The pilot gets on the call a short time later and says he is 47 years old, that he ejected at around 2,000 feet after "an aircraft failure" and had some back pain.

"We have a military jet crash. I’m the pilot. We need to get rescue rolling. I’m not sure where the airplane is," the pilot tells the dispatcher. "It would have crash-landed somewhere. I ejected."

America Can’t Stop China’s Rise - And it should stop trying.

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All these actions confirm that the American government is trying to stop China’s growth. Yet, the big question is whether America can succeed in this campaign—and the answer is probably not. Fortunately, it is not too late for the United States to reorient its China policy toward an approach that would better serve Americans—and the rest of the world.

America’s decision to slow China’s technological development is akin to the folly revealed by the old cliché: closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. Modern China has shown many times that China’s technological development can’t be halted.

Since the creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, several efforts have been made to limit China’s access to or stop its development in various critical technologies, including nuclear weapons, space, satellite communication, GPS, semiconductors, supercomputers, and artificial intelligence. The United States has also tried to curb China’s market dominance in 5G, commercial drones, and electric vehicles (EVs). Throughout history, unilateral or extraterritorial enforcement efforts to curtail China’s technological rise have failed and, in the current context, are creating irreparable damage to long-standing U.S. geopolitical partnerships. In 1993 the Clinton administration tried to restrict China’s access to satellite technology. Today, China has some 540 satellites in space and is launching a competitor to Starlink.

The same principle played out with GPS. When America restricted China’s access to its geospatial data system in 1999, China simply built its own parallel BeiDou Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) system in one of the first waves of major technological decoupling. In some measures, BeiDou is today better than GPS. It is the largest GNSS in the world, with 45 satellites to GPS’s 31, and is thus able to provide more signals in most global capitals. It is supported by 120 ground stations, resulting in greater accuracy, and has more advanced signal features, such as two-way messaging. Other nations have also previously tried and failed to block China’s technical rise. In the 1950s and 1960s, when the USSR withheld nuclear weapons technology from China, China launched its own “Manhattan Project” in the early 1960s and succeeded in testing its first nuclear weapon by 1964. Russian nuclear leverage over China ended that day.

Many of the measures taken by the Biden administration against China were also executed without factoring in China’s capacity to retaliate. While China does not physically construct many truly irreplaceable components of the American technology stack, they are keenly aware of the importance of their raw materials inputs (rare earths) and demand (revenue generation) in fueling the American innovation ecosystem and are now using them as leverage. In the current tit-for-tat dynamic, China will start squeezing these two critical ends of the value chain in response to American technology and capital export restrictions. China’s July ban of the gallium and germanium exports was merely an opening shot across the bow to remind America (and its aligned allies) of China’s dominance in the rare earths and critical metals space. The country has a near monopoly in the processing of magnesium, bismuth, tungsten, graphite, silicon, vanadium, fluorspar, tellurium, indium, antimony, barite, zinc, and tin. China also dominates in midstream processing for materials essential to most of America’s current and future technology aspirations such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper, which are critical for the rapidly developing EV industry globally.

The article continues, talking about mineral supply chains, semiconductors, Huawei etc, then:

This is why the time has come for America to do a major reevaluation of the methods it uses to secure foreign policy goals. Its go-to tactic of imposing sanctions has failed to either halt China’s technological development or influence China’s behavior in any significant way, and most countries do not find that it is in their interests to go along with them. Are there more effective alternatives to sanctions?

In a statement explaining the Biden administration’s approach to China, Anthony Blinken said in May 2022: “we’ll compete with confidence; we’ll cooperate wherever we can; we’ll contest where we must.” We agree with this approach. Rather than undermining its own interests and fortifying a geopolitical and economic competitor, America should practice a more enlightened technology policy. The focus must be placed on initiatives that sustainably support and extend America’s innovation leadership, while surgically removing specific national security threats.

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Initially, this great power collaboration could be focused on areas where both sides have common long-term interests (like climate change, pandemic preparedness, global economic stability, education). When basic levels of trust are established, dialogue and cooperation can be expanded step by step. None of these moves will result in a diminution of American power and standing in the world. Indeed, America’s prestige and standing could well rise as the rest of the world sees America pursuing reasonable policies that are serving both American and global interests. America will remain the most admired country in the world, if it pursues a wiser course with China.

CTRL-F "profit" - 0 results. Foreign Policy can write all the articles in the world about being nicer to China, but so long as the American oligarchy fears the fall in profits that China's supremacy in markets will bring, this war must continue.

Western monopolies MUST remain unchallenged. Luckily, the dipshits in charge have no idea how to make this happen.

Assad is going to China!

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad will head to China later this week in his first visit to Beijing since the start of his country’s 12-year conflict during which China has been one of his main backers, his office said on Tuesday.

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China could play a major role in the future in Syria’s reconstruction, which is expected to cost tens of billions of dollars. Syria last year joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative in which Beijing expands its influence in developing regions through infrastructure projects.

Assad’s office said the Syrian leader was invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping for a summit and will head Thursday to Beijing along with a high-ranking Syrian delegation.

Bit idea: Western spy tries to get Xi to say "Assad must go" to try and trigger the curse

Canada's house speaker apologizes for honoring a fucking nazi, as if he wasn't aware. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anthony-rota-ukrainian-veteran-apology-1.6977117

The recent Insurgents podcast episode is a good update about the UAW strike.

This could have been such a fucking layup for Democrats (Biden). Just show up to the damn picket line, shake hands, yada yada. But in reality, as we all know, he's more indebted to management and doesn't want to offend them by supporting Labour too aggressively. How are you going to let fucking Donald Trump, run to the left of you on Labour issues. Jesus. Paid to fail

Nancy Pelosi writes a letter to the NYT about the coup in Chile. Let us now praise the U.S. for declassifying documents about their complicity! Truth and justice will prevail!

I found some F-35 parts in my backyard. Imma call the Government so they can come and pick them up.

The Chinese Government.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/nRZ6k

Ukraine says it will sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over food import bans

Protectionist trade policies in play, baby!

KYIV, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Ukraine plans to sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in the World Trade Organization over bans on Ukrainian agricultural products, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.

The appeal could be sent "in the near future", a senior official said, and followed a decision by the three countries bordering Ukraine to ban imports of the country's key export commodities.

Politico had earlier on Monday quoted Ukrainian Trade Representative Taras Kachka as saying in an interview that Kyiv planned to sue the three countries.

Restrictions imposed by the European Union in May allowed Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to ban domestic sales of Ukrainian wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seeds, while permitting transit of such cargoes for export elsewhere.

Poland, Slovakia and Hungary announced their own restrictions on Ukrainian grain imports on Friday after the executive European Commission decided not to extend its ban on imports into Ukraine's five EU neighbours.

Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest say they are acting in the interests of their economies and their farmers.

REVENGE FOR THE POLISH FARMERS UKRAINE MURDERED!

Kachka told Politico that Ukraine could also impose reciprocal measures on the import of fruit and vegetables from Poland if Warsaw did not drop its additional measures.

TRADE WAR TRADE WAR

Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telus said Warsaw's ban covers four cereals, but it was also extended to include meals from these cereals: corn, wheat, rapeseed.

PAP news agency quoted Radoslaw Fogiel, the head of Poland's parliamentary foreign affairs commission, as saying Ukraine's decision to sue would "reverberate badly in Poland" and that Ukraine should be aware of this.

Oh hell yeah! Shoot yourselves in the foot over flour!

"Our decision is not aimed at Ukraine, it is dictated by the protection of the Polish farmer and the protection of Poland's interests," he said.

The EU allowed its ban to expire on Friday after Ukraine said it would take measures to tighten control of exports to neighbouring countries.

Kachka said Kyiv was ready to "take on the responsibility to ensure that export from Ukraine is not creating any tsunami in neighbouring countries" and would impose a system of "real time" export licenses for grains.

Farm ministry data showed 1.4 million tons of Ukrainian farm goods left the country by train in the first three months of the 2023/24 July-June season out of a total export volume of 4.5 million tons. Ukraine ships grain by train via crossings with Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Ukraine also shipped by rail an additional 1 million tons of oils and oilseeds.

Lmao now that the grain deal was sunk because Ukraine was overwhelmingly biased in shipping its foodstuffs to Europe instead of countries that actually need it, ukraines going full mask off to the point its threatening to destabilize European agricultural markets with their flood of foods

[A] - https://farside.link/nitter/PremierRP/status/1704550888256196823

[A] - https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/poland-stops-sending-weapons-to-ukraine-says-pm-41460

Polish Prime Minister announces the country will stop sending military aid to Ukraine

Biden Told Zelensky U.S. Is Willing to Provide Long-Range ATACMS Missiles

It will be interesting to see what happens when these and the F-16s arrive in Ukraine. The F-16s can be seen as nuclear-capable (Lavrov has made a big point of this), and ATACMS would be almost indistinguishable from a nuclear missile launch.

Technically, according to launch on warning doctrine, Russia has to launch its own nukes while the enemy's missiles are still in the air - before they can be known to be nuclear or not. Now, for numerous reasons, I don't think Russia or Ukraine is going to nuke anybody, but Russia's nuclear deterrence might be weakened if they let it slide. Though I guess Ukraine has already used potentially nuclear-capable weapons (Tochka-U and cruise missiles come to mind).

Zelensky Hillary 2024

It's Zillary's turn

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense announced the start of a military operation in Karabakh region with the aim of disarming the de-facto Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Democrats racked up two more special elections wins in NH and PA. It's starting to look like the GOP is going to fuck up what should have been back-to-back slam dunks for them, election-wise.

The funniest outcome has to be Biden losing to Trump after fulfilling his lifelong dream of being president, making him once again an exceptional loser, only for the Dems to take both the House and Senate.

Breaking: Fetterman has posted about "grabbing the hog"

Ukrainian embassy in México is mad at us because we had a russian regiment as an invitee for the independence day military parade

Oksana Dramaretska, the Ukrainian ambassador to Mexico, questioned the neutrality policy of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) after the participation of a Russian regiment in the civil-military parade that took place this Saturday on the occasion of the 213th Anniversary of Mexico's independence.

The Ukrainian diplomat claimed through her Putin on Ukrainian territory for a year and a half.

“The Civic Military Parade in CDMX, stained by the participation of a Russian regiment: their boots and hands of war criminals are stained with blood. How coherent, Mr. López Obrador, is your policy of neutrality and your condemnation of the aggression against my country?” Dramaretska reproached on the social network.

AMLO should kick her out honestly, not the first time the ukranian embassy tries to boss the country

Lula da Silva ratified that Brazil will continue to denounce measures adopted without the protection of the UN Charter, such as the economic and financial blockade imposed on Cuba and the attempt to classify that country as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Lula da Silva: "We will continue to criticize any attempt to divide the world and create a new cold war."

Lula's mentions of 'Brazil's comeback', reducing deforestation and criticizing the embargo on Cuba were applauded in New York. The President spoke at the UN again after 14 years.

The Brazilian president spoke for 21 minutes to an audience made up of presidents, prime ministers, ministers of state, diplomats, parliamentarians and other members of the countries' delegations.

Lula was also applauded when he took to the pulpit to begin his speech and at the end, when he called for "indignation at hunger, poverty, war, disrespect for human beings". And he advocated working together to overcome inequalities in the world.

In his speech, the Brazilian head of state addressed topics that he has been discussing at other events with leaders of other countries, such as the importance of preserving the environment and fighting inequality.

The president was applauded, for example, when he mentioned reducing deforestation in the Amazon and when he criticized the financial embargo imposed by the US on Cuba for decades.

Lula da Silva: "Our mission is to unite Brazil and rebuild a sovereign, fair, sustainable, supportive, generous and joyful country. Brazil is reuniting with itself, with our region, with the world and with multilateralism. As I never tire of repeating, Brazil is back".

Lula da Silva: "Reducing inequalities within countries requires including the poor in national budgets and making the rich pay taxes in proportion to their wealth. In Brazil, we are committed to implementing all 17 sustainable development goals in an integrated and indivisible way. We want to achieve racial equality in Brazilian society through an eighteenth goal that we will adopt voluntarily."

"Inspired by the Brazilian Bertha Lutz, a pioneer in the defense of gender equality in the UN Charter, we approved the law that makes equal pay for women and men in the same job mandatory."

"We have resumed a robust and renewed Amazon agenda, with actions to monitor and combat environmental crimes. Over the last eight months, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has already been reduced by 48%."

"Amid its rubble, far-right adventurers are emerging who deny politics and sell solutions that are as easy as they are wrong. Many have succumbed to the temptation to replace a failed neoliberalism with a primitive, conservative and authoritarian nationalism."

"It is essential to preserve freedom of the press. A journalist like Julian Assange [convicted of releasing confidential US documents] cannot be punished for informing society in a transparent and legitimate way."

"Brazil will continue to denounce measures taken without the support of the UN Charter, such as the economic and financial embargo imposed on Cuba and the attempt to classify that country as a state sponsor of terrorism."

Lula da Silva also denounced the coup attempts in Guatemala, Israel's invasions of Palestine and the war in Ukraine.

There is a lot to like about America and Americans. But the sheer waste of resources on show everywhere was pretty shocking. In Europe we absolutely aren’t doing enough to protect the environment and avert the impending climate catastrophe [...] In Florida they don’t appear to be even trying.

I posted an article about a vacationer's observation of the shocking amount of waste of resources in Florida in c/earth.

https://hexbear.net/post/652997

Canada is having a normal one

BBC News: "We've assessed how far Ukrainian forces have really progressed... The area to the south-east of the city of Zaporizhzhia is by far the most strategically important... There hasn't been much progress on this front... We have verified nine social media videos along the frontline near Verbove... However, these show incursions, not that Ukraine has managed to take control of the area. So far it has only been Ukrainian infantry getting through, and we're not seeing Ukrainian armoured columns pouring through, exploiting the gap and holding the ground taken... Ukraine's first attempt to charge through [Russian defences] in June quickly ended in failure, with its modern, Western-supplied armour crippled and burning. Ukrainian infantry came similarly unstuck, taking horrific casualties... for Kyiv, the clock is ticking. The rainy season will arrive within weeks, turning the roads to mud and hindering further advances. Beyond that lies the uncertainty of the US presidential elections, where a Republican victory could see US military support for Ukraine dramatically slashed."

Brazil's Indigenous peoples celebrate massive land rights victory

A lopsided majority of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Thursday against an effort to restrict native peoples' rights to protected reservations on their ancestral lands, in a win for Indigenous activists and climate campaigners.

Indigenous leaders in bright feather headdresses and body paint exploded in celebration outside the high court building in Brasilia as Justice Luiz Fux became the sixth on the 11-member court to side with the native plaintiffs in the landmark case, giving them victory.

will become ?

I'm a size queen, but for aircraft

Our brick houses and walls are so poorly built in South Africa that just a strong wind was seemingly enough to knock down half of them in the Pretoria area. Okay that's a exaggeration, but seriously, there is no way a 114kph / 70mph strong wind should cause that much damage. It wasn't even a rain storm, it was what meteorologists call a "dry microburst"! What the hell is even going on over there in Pretoria? Did they get the three little piggies from the fairytale to build everything?