Tankiedesantski [he/him] @ Tankiedesantski @hexbear.net

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America has a lot of warheads but its delivery systems are relatively behind Russian and Chinese systems. For instance, the current US land/silo based missiles are Minuteman 3s, which were first built in the 1970s. Even with upgrades, they are generally understood to be inferior to much more recent Russian Yars and Chinese Dong Feng missiles.

That said, increasing the number of warheads doesn't really help in terms of that deficiency so the between the lines conclusion is that the new American missile systems have hit such snags that the military is considering making up the deficiency with numbers of warheads.

Maybe Todd Howard?

The rules based order actually just means "we rule with an iron fist"

Damn, Mars rovers suffer from incremental SUV bloat too?

Author definitely isn't mad that China mediated the Saudi-Iranian normalization while the US has been pushing for Saudi-Israeli normalization without success.

The active tense of Xi personally invading an entire sea vs the passive tense of a Palestinian hospital exploding after bombs dropped.

Anglo Charlie Kirk

That rumor is so stupid it doesn't even begin to stack up. Paying medical bills sucks, but killing someone even unintentionally puts you at risk of jail time. Vanishingly few people are going to choose a decade or more of hard labor in jail over paying a debt.

The only thing this whole rumor proves is that people will believe the most irrational things about China as long as it makes Chinese people look bad.

Magic Carpet pointing to the first word of its name emphatically

This is like Hitler telling someone to tone down the racism.

I think it's much more likely this is an attempt to balance France's own ties with China to protect its substantial business interests inside China. As much as I would like to think China supports the Palestinians cause to this degree, I think it would take a lot more than this to get China to flip on two decades of its core Russia policy.

Anyone with eyes can see that the US definitely intends to come after China after Russia is "dealt with". It would take a lot of concessions to get China to throw aside its only major ally.

That bear is mood

Locally made, ethically sourced, guilt-free, low carb, organic, passenger aircraft.a

The UK has come to terms with it's inexorable slide into developing nation status and figured it might as well shill a few boner pills along the way.

Laughs in Harmony OS

In evil totalitarian China, you can be banned from buying high speed rail tickets if you default on your loans.

In good democratic freedom America, you can be denied all forms of air travel because your name happens to resemble one that's on a secret list.

An art major's half asleep doodles can receive copyright protection whereas an image created by a million dollar supercomputer running the most sophisticated AI model possible cannot.

Extremely rare artist x lawyer crossover to dunk on the AI bros.

US negotiators in shambles after learning about the existence of "principles".

If porky owns all the houses he can raise rent to much higher than "market" rates due to having a monopoly on an inelastic good.

"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."