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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fine doubles every week so it will take a bit over 4 more years.

Edit: Apparently if Google fails to pay the $20 decillion fine in 9 months, it will double everyday. Yikes. This means it will take a year.

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If you had these $20 decillion in the form of $1 bills, they would occupy 16 times the volume of the sun. In $100 bills it would be ~208,000* volume of Earth.

In terms of google's revenue of $250 billion it would take 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to pay it all back, the current age of the universe is 13,800,000,000

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/29/russia-fines-google-25-decillion-over-youtube-bans-rbc-a86846 (wrong figure)

According to RBC’s sources, Google began accumulating daily penalties of 100,000 rubles in 2020 after the pro-government media outlets Tsargrad and RIA FAN won lawsuits against the company for blocking their YouTube channels. Those daily penalties have doubled each week, leading to the current overall fine of around 2 undecillion rubles.

Google also lost its assets in South Africa due to banning SPAS

Russian media, in turn, have appealed to courts in Turkey, Hungary, Spain, South Africa and other countries to recognize and enforce court decisions made against Google in Russia. In June, the High Court of the Republic of South Africa granted a motion to seize Google's assets in that country. This happened after the corporation failed to comply with a Moscow court order to restore the Russian TV channel Spas's YouTube account.

 

The group of countries invited to join the BRICS as "partner states" includes Turkey, Indonesia, Algeria, Belarus, Cuba, Bolivia, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam, Nigeria, and Uganda.

The BRICS countries have agreed to include 13 nations in the category of "partner states" in the association. However, the entry of these countries will not be made official during the summit. According to this definition, the Russian presidency will hold consultations with the partner countries to make membership of the BRICS official. The figure was confirmed earlier by Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2024/10/24/brics-approves-cuba-bolivia-and-11-other-countries-as-partner-states.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624m4kgrg3o?

Edit: same seems to be true for Nicaragua. https://voz.us/en/world/241023/17479/venezuela-and-nicaragua-would-be-left-out-of-brics-at-lula-s-request.html

 

Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Tuesday:

The reckless infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK by the ROK military gangsters is a hideous military provocation that can never be pardoned.

Seoul will have to experience at first hand so as to know properly how dangerous act it committed and how terrible and fatal the consequences it brought on itself are.

A military provocation against a nuclear weapons state may be led to horrible situation, unimaginable for politicians and military experts in any big or small country in the world with their normal thinking to experience. So, there will be no such instance except one recently made by lunatics of the ROK and Ukraine.

Such deed can be done only by lunatics in the Seoul and Kiev regimes.

Seoul and Kiev are exact counterparts in going about begging and letting loose reckless remarks against nuclear weapons states at random without follow-up capability.

It seems to be a common feature of bad dogs bred by the U.S.

The DPRK detective agencies' investigation into the drones from the ROK is going on and the truth behind the despicable provocation of the ROK military gangsters will be analyzed further in detail.

No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed.

A lot of political motivational rubbish sent by the ROK scum was discovered and removed in many parts of the DPRK on October 21, too.

The brute courage of the Seoul authorities to jump into fire with brushwood on their backs, far from reflecting on their conducts and being prudent, will bring the danger of destruction of all the scum. And they will be denounced by everyone else. -0-

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

China and Russia have mutual defence agreements with the DPRK too.

The outer suburbs of Seoul are only 15 miles from the border.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Firstly for the size of their army they have ~1,280,000 active personnel (~4th, between US and Russia), 600,000 reserve and 5,700,000 paramilitary (overall 1st in the world with 7580000 personnel).

They have 5845 tanks (2nd in the world to Russia) and ~11920 artillery (2nd again to Russia)

They have 35 submarines (4th to Russia, USA and China)

The short border will be deadly, expect Seoul to be fully destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Plenty of flags using a lighter shade of blue with yellow too, the flag of ww2 collaborationist Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

From: http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/d5483a1b74ad535c0736a5751b9e1bf2.kcmsf

Crucial Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Friday issued the following crucial statement "The trigger for defending sovereignty and security will be pulled up without hesitation":

The ROK is crossing the red line in its provocation against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The most hostile and malicious rogue state, the ROK, committed such a grave political and military provocation as infiltrating drones into Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK.

Drone infiltrations were conducted by the ROK on October 3 and 9. They were followed by perpetration of such a hideous crime as scattering a huge number of anti-DPRK smear leaflets over the central part of Pyongyang through a midnight drone infiltration on October 10.

Smear leaflets, run through with inflammatory rumors and rubbish tarnishing the national sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK and malignantly hurting its socialist system, were scattered in the central part of the capital city.

Not content with scattering leaflets along the border by balloons, the ROK infiltrated even into the sky of the DPRK's capital such drones which can be regarded as military attack means. The case is a serious provocation that can neither be overlooked nor be pardoned.

Its provocation beyond the limit line constitutes an open infringement on the sacred national sovereignty and security of the DPRK and a wanton violation of the international law and a grave military attack, for which the ROK must pay a dear price.

The ROK should neither justify the recent case in a trite way nor think of shirking its responsibility by making far-fetched assertions again.

The case is a typical instance that vividly betrays the national position of the ROK belonging to the most shameless, childish and vulgar category in the world and meanness of its clans.

It also evidently shows that the danger of armed conflict is created on the Korean peninsula due to the reckless and adventuristic acts of the ROK.

The international community should strongly denounce the bravado of the ROK, which is steadily escalating the danger of military conflict in the region while unhesitatingly committing provocations hard to sustain their aftermath, and unanimously call for thoroughly deterring them.

International law does not allow free flight of foreign aircraft or flying objects in the territorial airspace of a country, as well as "harmless flight".

The recent intrusion into the airspace is a grave crime encroaching upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and a clear target of the exercise of the right to self-defence.

The ROK chose self-destruction and is hastening its doom.

In the world, there is no country which will not react to the violation of its airspace and the drones of a hostile country flying over its capital.

We regard the recent provocation of the ROK as a serious political and military provocation that deserves retaliation according to the right to self-defence, without any further explanation and necessity.

The recent adventurous provocation of the enemies urgently requires our army to promptly judge what kind of action measure should be taken to discharge its sovereignty-defending mission granted by the DPRK Constitution and make a decision on launching the relevant retaliatory action.

The Ministry of National Defence, the General Staff and the army at all levels of the DPRK set about the preparations to cope with different occasions of the developing situation.

First, all the offensive means of the DPRK, to be involved in getting the military structures near the southern border and in the ROK collapsed, will get ready to carry out their activities promptly at any moment.

The stand expressed by our head of state some days ago that the DPRK has no intention to attack the ROK, does not mean that we are not ready to attack the ROK.

With the possibility of using all means of attack in readiness, we seriously warn the ROK as an ultimatum again to the last.

The ROK should immediately stop such irresponsible and dangerous provocation that may cause an armed conflict and lead to a war between the two sides.

If the ROK commits such a provocation as infiltrating a drone into airspace of the DPRK once again, the DPRK will launch an action immediately without any warning.

Taking this opportunity, we make it clear once again that the source and cause of all these disasters making the world people uneasy are in the ROK which has scattered political agitation scum into our inviolable territory despite our repeated warnings.

The ROK, which wantonly violated the inviolable sovereignty of the DPRK, will face a horrible situation if it continues provocations, not bearing in mind this last warning of the DPRK.

The trigger safety device is now off.

The time for our attack is not decided by us.

We will watch everything in full preparedness.

Criminals should no longer gamble at risk for the lives of their people. -0-

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They have a mutual defence agreement with the DPRK, the only one China has. Also Russia has one with the DPRK too.

 

https://x.com/alexaigor/status/1841173848957333553

https://x.com/albersantin/status/1838587646282473868 When Lukashenko asked "What place does Marxism-Leninism occupy in this book on modern political economy?" when reviewing a new book for university students. He got the reply "first and most important"

Back in October 2022, Lukashenko met Dugin and described his trouble in creating a new ideology: https://m.eng.belta.by/president/view/lukashenko-talks-about-formation-of-state-ideas-153969-2022/

“It got me to look at your views and recall the philosophy I studied – the Marx-Lenin philosophy. Well, it's been some time. It turns out we have not created anything better than that. They say that Marxism-Leninism is bad. Be that as it may but we haven't created anything better than that. And it was an entire system of views. We don't have it these days,”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Some do, some don't.

 

You can hold voting for a referendum? But no presidential election? Contradictory but whatever.

Furthermore Zelensky said that Russia should be invited to the next peace summit in November. No way he'll negotiate sensibly and it will still be for Ukraine's PR.

The majority of the world today says that Russia must be represented at the second summit, otherwise we will not achieve meaningful results,” he said, adding “since the whole world wants them to be at the table, we cannot be against it.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/601950-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-zelensky/

Clownsky's just adjusting his tone to retain the western audience imo.

 

Announcing a new phase of the confrontation, Sayyed Nasrallah said: "We are facing a major battle where matters have surpassed the issue of support fronts," announcing, "We are in an open battle on all fronts, and it has entered a new phase." He emphasized that the escalation of the new phase "depends on the reactions of the [Israeli] occupation."

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Published 12 April 2014 by the BBC. This is at the start of the Donbass war, in Slovyansk, the first city to fall to the rebels. The video explains how the civilian population defeated the Ukrainian army. There is an admission of Ukrainian commander at 2:10

Despite being liberated in 2014 and being the heart of the revolution in Donbass, Ukraine recaptured it after an almost 3 month long siege and retains it to this day.

New York Times article on the aftermath of the siege: https://archive.is/qYLRu

 

Slovakia: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/07/24/7467229/

The Slovak leader stated that his country helps Ukraine with the reverse gas supply and electricity supply.

"If the situation is not corrected, we will be forced to react," Pellegrini said, adding that Slovakia, in his opinion, does not deserve such an approach from Kyiv.

For his part, Slovak Defence Minister Robert Kaliňák said that by stopping the transit of Russian oil, Kyiv was "risking a lot."

"Ukraine's actions were irresponsible," Kaliňák added.

Hungary: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/hungary-block-eu-money-member-states-until-kyiv-allows-lukoil-transit-2024-07-23/

"As long as this issue is not resolved by Ukraine, everyone should forget about the payment of the 6.5 billion euros of the European Peace Facility (EPF) compensation for arms transfers," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto was quoted as saying by broadcaster ATV.

62% of Ukraine's electricity imports come from Hungary and Slovakia, as much of Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been damaged.

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