Ahhh, its the Vietnamese backed state, that makes a lot more sense! I forgot that they had a very similar flag, and from a distance all I saw was "Red flag, yellow peaked building", which threw me for a loop.
A strange breakaway state in Myanmar that is essentially the remnants of the Burmese Communist Party and various rouge military units that escaped into the jungle after the civil war. They aren’t recognized, and hold little to no meaningful power; just a few villages in the jungle.
They don’t do anything much, so the government just leaves them alone.
They are the equivalent of de facto Central American “cartel states” like Sinaloa.
If I change the title of many Russian news channels to Der Stürmer, there would be very little difference between the rhetoric. Just swap German fanatical nationalism for a Russian flavor.
The UN has been instrumental in assisting Mali and Mozambique in eradicating the last remnant holdouts of ISIS that have terrorized the rural population and caused countless deaths. That is one of countless projects that have brought meaningful change to the world. It is bizarre to discount the efforts of tens of thousands of people and dozens of countries, all because the US prevents the organization from stepping in to assist Palestine. Why throw the baby out with the bath water.
I literally just vibe checked everyone I came across, and somehow got it right because I caught a minuscule completely irrelevant slip up when they used the same phrase across 2 accounts.
What is your source? The national WW2 registry lists there being only roughly 300,000 pre-Pearl harbor. Then roughly 1.4 million total after mass enlistment and drafting in December.
Why would the US military be fielding a peacetime force of 1.6 million members? That’s an insane amount of men relative to the population.
Or this direct US army document that states that the US’ proactive mobilization plan would increase the US military from 167,000 men in 1939 to 320,000 men by mid 1941 in preparation for potentially joining the European front.
EDIT: Nevermind I think I found a source that says something similar to what you’re saying, but it’s a massive misrepresentation of the data. The 1.6 million men number is including YET TO BE ACTIVATED reservists, national guard members, and potential draft selections yet to be activated.
The US military’s actual effective strength was 300,000. The other million exist only on paper up until December when mobilization kicked into maximum overdrive.
This is blatantly wrong, the US military at its peak in WW2 numbered 16,000,000 (16 million) personnel.
In 2023 there are 1,600,000 (1.6 million) personnel. The US military has been below WW2 mobilization numbers for decades, its impossible to keep that number of people mobilized.
Are downtown areas really the best type of data to analyze potential "ghost cities"? This feels like a misrepresentation. The residential designated areas in San Francisco and Los Angeles for example are over capacity and there has been a shortage for over 2 decades at this point.
Downtown areas by definition are the commercial enterprise and business sector of a city. The “vacancy” number here is looking at dead office spaces and commercial real estate, it isn’t even possible to build designate residential areas in a downtown commonly.
This is also mostly due to the pandemic, and increasingly larger numbers of workplaces switching to remote work.
Further, the death of brick and mortar stores, shopping malls, and other commercial enterprises also contributes to this number.
More like he threatened their colonial holdings to such a large degree that they viewed him as a danger that had to be put down. So they’re looking him up for non based reasons.
Thank you, that means quite a lot to hear you say that. Like you already pointed out, I’m just trying to add context and pushback to a very delicate and tense political situation where what’s going on isn’t clear cut and hardly heading towards an obvious conclusion.
I just hope that my context does not come across as disparaging the actions of the Ansarallah or supporting any action that might be taken against them, as I fully support what they are doing, and the cause they are doing it for. It just seems that it’s really easy for most to get lost in pure ideological support and forget that actions such as these have international consequences.
Like you also mentioned, making conclusions or predictions is a fools errand with how early in the situation it is, but it’s important to have all the available information before making any conclusions.
They are one of the 34 nations whose ships make up CTF 153. Even if they do not directly support or sponsee the operation, the PLAN is still a part of it.
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Ahhh, its the Vietnamese backed state, that makes a lot more sense! I forgot that they had a very similar flag, and from a distance all I saw was "Red flag, yellow peaked building", which threw me for a loop.
Thanks for the clarification!