I mean yeah on the face of it having similar (by then even a bit bigger) population size to China, plenty of natural resources and the largest amount of habitable land in the world, it seems bad that India is only producing a fraction of what China is. But maybe they can compensate for that by going hard on IT and finance to be like the rich, developed western nations. Working in factories or on construction sites is for losers anyway, smart people work in offices writing code or trading stocks - those are the high paying jobs, ergo it stands to reason that a country is better off the more people it has doing those kinds of jobs... ideally 100% of the population for maximum profit!

Pentagon claims

I stopped reading there

Avoided? More like delayed.

They are just employing the good old Zapp Brannigan strategy.

"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."

I don't have much respect for the Lebanese government, but i do for Hezbollah. We have to remember that these are two different entities, and i think that so far Hezbollah have played a very smart game, they have acted patiently and strategically and have carefully controlled the pace of escalation. They have caused huge problems for the Zionist entity in the north of occupied Palestine, and this simultaneously takes pressure off of Gaza as a lot of resources have to be devoted to the northern front now while at the same time creating a political conundrum for the Zionist regime as it is forced to pick between openly admitting to their humiliating defeat in Gaza or a worse and worse security situation in the north.

It's easy to fall into the trap of wanting to see some big, spectacular escalation by the Lebanese resistance but we have to ask ourselves whether we want that because it's the strategically correct play to help Gaza and the Palestinian people or because we are impatient and have an emotional need for some kind of immediate catharsis.

Sometimes we have to have some humility and admit that maybe we don't know what's best because we aren't there on the ground and should instead trust that the axis of resistance knows its own situation better than we ever could, they have experience fighting the Zionist entity and they know what they're doing.

Who in Washington doesn't?

A country has a casus belli to attack anywhere where weapons used against them are produced or shipped from, where intel and surveillance used in the war against them are conducted from, and where soldiers who fight against them are trained. Thus according to the laws of war Russia has every right to strike not only Europe but the US too.

Whether a country also has the means to do this in practice is another matter. In Russia's case they most certainly do, but so far they have chosen not to.

What a joke. Germany has already been overtaken by Russia in PPP terms, just like China has already overtaken the US. Germany is entering the most catastrophic economic decline of its entire post WW2 history. And it's all either self-inflicted or directly caused by its own ostensible "allies".

And sadly not a very funny farce, rather a tragic one...

This is actually a really good idea. Do they have something similar with China already?

It is clear that Ukraine has no future without Russia. This enormous and unpayable debt is just one of the many reasons why. The good news is that if (or rather when) Russia wins they won't need to pay it. Whether Russia takes it all or just installs a friendly government in Kiev, the debt will be defaulted on either way. The obligations to the West that this current puppet regime entered into will be denounced as illegitimate as the regime itself was illegitimate.

I mean for one thing his ties to Burisma through his son and god knows how many other shady dealings in Ukraine, though to be fair probably half of Congress has their fingers in the dirty pie of Ukraine and profiting one way or another. But the fact that we now know for a fact that he pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor looking into the very corruption the Bidens were involved in takes it one step further.