I literally had plane parts from Swiss Air Force aerobatic team’s F5 raining down on me like 3 years ago…

But my favorite bit was…

The Swiss air force: armed and dangerous, but only in office hours

It was French and Italian jet pilots who escorted the Ethiopian Airlines plane hijacked by its co-pilot safely to Geneva airport on Monday morning in february this year – because, at 6.02am, it was still nearly two hours before the Swiss air force came to work.

“Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend,” spokesman Laurent Savary told AFP.

It would be funny to have the people’s approval rate for this “agreement” in the EU. I am thinking low single digits…

If you know India, they are almost certainly BSing the Americans. Worst case, it will be rerouted through a 3rd country and they will just call it “diversification”.

There are very few evangelicals in Croatia. It's the Croatian branch of Catholic church, which is more right wing than the Vatican itself. Yes, I know how that sounds. Fun fact, no other country on Earth, including Poland, has signed such servile contracts with Vatican, as Croatian nationalists did in the 90's, to win Vatican's, and subsequently international recognition of their fledgling independent state. You know, like the Nazis did with Reichskonkordat in 1933...

Regarding the pogroms...it's not that simple. The first pogroms were conducted by the rebel Serbs who kicked out cca 200k Croatians and occupied a third of Croatia, while also massacring Croatian civilians who "didn't get the message". Eventually, their military strenght disappeared and Croatian military grew massively in power. So, Croatians launched a huge offensive, but telegraphed their intent beforehand, which created a massive displacement of like 350k Serbs to Bosnia and Serbia. A small number of, mostly elderly Serbs that were left, were on some occasions, massacred. A lot of abandoned Serbian houses were intentionally looted and burned.

There was a lot of talk at the ICTY about the intent, because the secret tapes of Croatian president (unbeknownst to everyone, he recorded everything) and his cronies, revealed them basically "dog whistling" (and more) to each other about it.

Fun fact, a Croatian generals were put on stand at the ICTY for war crimes of excessive shelling of Serbian rebel cities in occupied Croatia during the offensive. This didn't "age well" to say the least, given the present Gaza realities. Here's Natopedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Gotovina_et_al.

Anyway, in present day Croatia, it is therefore a political suicide not to show up at the celebration of that offensive, while Serbs are each year, ofc, pissed off about it. Croatians maintain it was voluntary displacement or even forced displacement by the rebel Serbs authorities, and that absolutely nothing would have happened if they stayed fascist wink wink.

Reporting...been reading since day one.

I watched this already and I can't help to notice how Jeffrey Sachs sounds like a normal human being who regardless of his lib status and past "transgressions", seems to be genuinely interested in human cooperation and betterment, while Mearsheimer sounds like a freaking "We'll if I don't steal it, someone else will!" ghoul.

Pretty old news. This pier has already unceremoniously fallen apart, while doing absolutely nothing to help Gaza relief efforts, for the brief period it was active.

This so called “Pax Americana” we occasionally hear about, only applies to Western countries, but the author is trying to expand it to entire world, which is obviously ridiculous, given, you know…the reality.

Where do you suggest to donate for people of Gaza? https://crisisrelief.un.org/opt-crisis? I’ve got this org in my mailbox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre_des_hommes ?

Wait...hold on... "In short, the Pentagon has a system, and the public should trust it, the argument goes"

That the same Pentagon which can't track trillions of "lost" dollars?

This is literally the GDP growth rate. I don’t think you know what you are talking about, but please point us to a definition of the indicator you are talking about as well as to the comparison by country.

Well, they are already way outperforming everyone's expectations, including those of the US government.

China is already planning to build a giant chip-making factory with a particle accelerator, which could completely change the chip-making industry as we know it and could possibly leave the rest of the countries lagging behind considerably. Their approach could end up flooding the market with the most advanced chips, which are also very cheap, and with which the current industry just wouldn't be able to compete any longer. This tectonic shift in chip making technology, could also have a massive influence on Taiwanese economy and reintegration sentiment with the mainland, since it might make Taiwan far less economically relevant in the future, just like it happened with the Hong Kong.

SCMP: China plans to build a giant chip factory driven by particle accelerator

Contrary to commercial players such as Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography (ASML), which favors reducing the size of chip-making machines for export, the Chinese project aims to localize manufacturing by building a colossal factory housing multiple lithography machines around a single accelerator. This innovation could foster high-volume, low-cost chip manufacturing and potentially propel China into a leadership role in the industrial production of advanced chips, known as 2nm (nanometer) chips, and beyond.

https://archive.ph/NrC6B#selection-779.0-803.92