It's infrastructure that Germany and the Netherlands funded. Why doesn't it matter?
Hundreds, thousands, millions. It's all the same because people died and the people that died weren't white.
I think you're misunderstanding to some degree. While silicon PV caps out at around 24% (I think up to 27% now), 100% conversion is basically impossible because of physics.
Plus, the sun basically has infinite energy, so it's not like efficiency is that big of a concern compared to energy density.
Things don't have to be good in Europe to be worse in America.
Socialism worked in Russia: it dragged hundreds of millions of people out of subsistence farming and turned the USSR into an economic powerhouse. Of course, the collapse of the USSR showed the failings of an aggressively socialist state, but the funny thing is that China already has the solution: a market-based economy with strong state control. Putin doesn't dare piss off the oligarchs though, so we're stuck with this crony bullshit.
Who's stomaching the risk profile of investment in Afghanistan? More power to them.
"THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept."
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/
Who would have thought that the charges were bogus? Who would have thought...
America, the land of the free.
Looking at the map of BRICS, it's missing representation from South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
By economic size, Argentina (2nd largest in South America behind Brazil), Saudi Arabia (largest in the Middle East), Iran (5th largest in the Middle East), Indonesia (largest in Southeast Asia), and Nigeria (largest in African) make the most sense for inclusion. It provides a strong counterbalance to the North American-European axis of influence that's dominated global affairs since WW2.
Iran's inclusion forms a necessary counterbalance against Saudi Arabia and can be used to further diffuse the tense relationship between the two countries. The rest are fairly self-explanatory.
Both Russia and Ukraine are buying and using consumer-level drones and scopes from China, though...
Turns out, AliExpress is pretty fucking amazing.
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Who's consuming? China, the single biggest driver of increasing oil consumption for the past few decades, is predicted to hit peak oil this year and their oil demand is collapsing due to the massive market share of EVs in the Chinese market.