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10 months agoBetter source from Vox:
The memo in question:
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Trump and Netanyahu have alienated 92 million people from the west and kicked a massive, nuclear, hornets nest. I worry that the Tehran regime has nothing left to lose at this point. They’re on the ropes militarily, but they’re not out of power.
would probably take a month or two
Closing Hormuz would blockade the Saudis as well.
That is not the argument stated in the article
Sánchez argued that Spain doesn’t need to spend 5 percent of its GDP to fulfill its so-called capability targets, meaning new objectives of weapons inventory agreed by NATO defense ministers earlier this month.
He also wrote that a 5 percent defense spending goal would jeopardize the country’s welfare system, force the government to increase taxes on the middle class, scale back commitments to the green transition and curtail international development cooperation.
“It is the legitimate right of every government to decide whether or not they are willing to make those sacrifices,” he wrote.
Rushing to 5 percent would also force Madrid to buy off-the-shelf equipment instead of fostering its own industrial base, as well as take money away from welfare policies, Sánchez also wrote.
The Spanish Socialist party is in a coalition with the junior left-wing Sumar party, which opposes increased defense spending and whose members are expected to attend a counter-summit for peace in parallel to the NATO summit.
Trump can just veto the bill if he doesn’t want to sanction Russia, they should stop trying to water it down.
Wouldn’t be funny at all.
Trump was president during the Hong Kong crackdown, they were begging for help.
Is there no family visa for the immediate family of a US citizen?
in play to prevent a civil war
Med plutonium tvingar vi danskarna på knä!
Some industries are saying they are completely unviable around 40-60%. See the recent Gamers Nexus video about the computer hardware industry.
Some companies can survive 10-30% by cutting margins and passing to the consumer, but there are entire classes of product where demand will just evaporate if you raise prices 20-30%, especially budget and value products.
It’s impossible to reshore manufacturing to stop this too. Every single economist is saying that there is a 0% chance that the way Trump has weaponized tariffs will cause any meaningful production in the US. The only outcome from this is empty shelves and stagflation.
No. They paused the tariffs that were in response to the ongoing steel and aluminum tariffs when Trump lowered the “lib day” tariffs from 20% to 10%.
Who made the graphic?
Yes, but natural gas is a more potent greenhouse gas than co2 and there are continuous natural gas leaks. All the CO2 savings (vs coal) from each KwH of burned natural gas is completely negated by all the leaks on the way to the consumer. Note that most oil companies are very bad at reporting leaks, we basically have to measure them manually from satellites to know about them.
Never said electrification was a bad thing, just natural gas. Instead of building new natural gas plants and patting ourselves on the back for it not being coal, we should just build more renewables.
Natural gas electricity contributes more greenhouse gasses per kwh than coal though. The PRC also has lower co2 emissions per capita.
35% Tarriffs on eu/Asia and 104% Tarriffs on China is still a recession. Other countries arent removing their Tarriffs
The only positive thing this did was show that Trump is weak, so hopefully he’ll stay at these rates and maybe he’ll be out by the end of the year
Tell Russia that, the EU never turned them off or stopped ordering. It was Russia who turned them off to try to bully the EU.
Sure, let’s start negotiations, you drop the tariffs while they’re ongoing.
It will never work because the US will want to slash labor unions and Europe wants better product standards, but we can call his bluff.
They literally campaigned on a slogan saying that doubling the prison time would cut crime in half. Insanity.