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Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online

What are the chances this will lead to online data privacy reform and corporate accountability for PII for all? or just...some?

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earthworm

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New punishments for hacking politicians' phones.

Zero changes for anyone else.

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Stefen Auris

in reply to earthworm • 2 settimane fa • •

hate to say it but you're probably right

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Australis13

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Probably right on the money, sadly.

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BigMacHole

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This is HORRIBLE! That RICH people's Information was Leaked! This needs to be PUNISHED BY DEATH so they Learn to ONLY leak POOR People's information!

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JeeBaiChow

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What's the number? So I can make sure I don't accidentally send him a text...

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I need someone where to send me the number so I can make sure I don't accidentally send him a message saying cunt

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LOGIC💣

in reply to Agent641 • 2 settimane fa • •

It's really the phone companies' fault for stagnating instead of innovating.

There is no reason at this point for most people to have phone numbers at all. We have the technology today to throw the whole concept out the window.

Replace it with something where a stranger couldn't guess how to contact a random person. Replace it with something where third parties can't easily share your contact info.

You could even have both technologies at the same time to help transition. And we do, as users, but we still need phone numbers because our carriers don't give us multiple options directly.

Phone numbers are based on requirements for a system that's almost 150 years old now. Back when the numbers really meant locations and before people realized how easy it could be exploited to steal old people's retirement money.

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Echo Dot

in reply to LOGIC💣 • 2 settimane fa • •

You still have to have some kind of unique identifier. What do you propose phone numbers are replaced with because I can't think of anything that isn't basically just the same but with a different flavour or actually is actively worse.

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GasMaskedLunatic

in reply to Echo Dot • 2 settimane fa • •

Your device and account credentials are unique enough to identify you on the carrier-level, SIM/eSIM as well. Ultimately, every time you share your contact info, it should be a unique code (QR would be convenient enough) generated by your cell provider. If it's ever leaked, you just notify your carrier to burn it, and give the contact a new unique code. No two people should be given the same contact, and all of the contacts are simply correlated to your device by the carrier. Additionally, when sharing contacts via QR, they could be modified on the device-level to include e2e encryption keys, thus further securing the transmitted information, not at the trust-me-bro carrier level, but at the user-verifiable device level. If the carrier gets hacked, reset the identifiers, associate the new one in your text app to keep conversations going, and move on like nothing happened. You'll still be better off than if your phone number was leaked. It's not perfect, but it'd be a hell of a lot more secure than what we have now.

In other words: What if a billion dollar company made Signal, but with cell towers, and not as good?

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CameronDev

in reply to GasMaskedLunatic • 2 settimane fa • •

QR would be convenient enough

My friend, that is not convenient. Phone numbers need to be memorable, and need to be transmittable offline without relying on technology. Old people use phones...

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GasMaskedLunatic

in reply to CameronDev • 2 settimane fa • •

Phone numbers need to be memorable. A disposable unique contact does not. You can print a QR code, easily save it to a device, transmit it via nearly anything with a connectible screen. Of course you would want to launch it with alongside phone numbers, not in place of it, but this is what should be the next 'innovation' in cellular communication.
That said, it does pose the problem of contacting someone with a phone that isn't your own, perhaps from jail. I'm sure they would never suggest putting an emergency contact chip in your hand for your own health and safety. No government would ever suggest something so silly. /s

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Echo Dot

in reply to GasMaskedLunatic • 1 settimana fa • •

If I want to contact a business though I know I need to dial 555-123-4568, and I know that because there was a little jingle at the end of the advert. But if they just flash up a QR code then do I just have to wait until the ad is on TV again? There's a reason they don't really put QR codes on TV but they do on YouTube where you can pause it, and queue up the video whenever you wanted.

It's not an awful idea but it needs a bit of refinement. That needs to be some kind of way to associate a human readable identifier to the contact.

We use QR codes all of the time for websites but eventually that still boils down to a URL in plain text.

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LOGIC💣

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Businesses are a separate use case. Phone companies already handle separate use cases, where they use very short memorable numbers for specific purposes. They just need something similar, whether it's keeping phone numbers, or using something slightly different. Probably some sort of simple alias.

It's the phone companies that need to innovate, and the solution isn't very hard.

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Echo Dot

in reply to LOGIC💣 • 1 settimana fa • •

You say the solution isn't very hard but what you are suggesting is basically just obfuscating phone numbers. Surely the actual solution is to just make spam calling illegal.

Oh and just cut Indias data connection, because those guys are never going to fix their scam call centre problem because the government and police are corrupt.

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LOGIC💣

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You could argue that cryptography is nothing but a type of obfuscation. I was trying to explain things so that the very average person could understand it.

People don't stop doing things just because you make it illegal. You even know this because you mentioned India. However people actually do stop when you make it nearly impossible.

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GasMaskedLunatic

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The solution is simple then. Allow businesses to maintain a phone number for people who watch ads on TV. Not like businesses getting spam calls is that big an issue. Though I'm certain they'd be very enthusiastic to have the unique contact QR feature available for tracking in web ads.

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WhyJiffie

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usernames, like in signal. opt-in, customizable. maybe also add something automatically for the locality

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RedGreenBlue

in reply to GasMaskedLunatic • 2 settimane fa • •

Email should work similarly.

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GasMaskedLunatic

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Agreed.

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vacuumflower

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For those who ran their own mail servers it already did, via the +something notation.

Unfortunately the industry and the Internet in general went the other way.

EDIT: Oh, you mean temporary address. Easy. You have tracker nodes and receipt nodes. You publish on all tracker nodes you know your receipt node (by temporary address) every time you generate a temporary address. So those mailing you find it on trackers and post there. On that receipt node your temporary address is associated with some secret, allowing you to retrieve your incoming mail. The easiest way is that the temporary address is a pubkey and to confirm ownership you just need to sign a request for mail, or maybe it'll be encrypted with it and no good for anyone else. Or both.

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vacuumflower

in reply to GasMaskedLunatic • 2 settimane fa • •

In Tox you have a code on the end of the Tox address. One can do similar, but have different codes for different levels of acceptance. Default - ignore. Some other code - add to the list of callers without notification. Some other - with notification. Some other - for SMS, but not calls, or the other way around. And so on.

The problem with things being memorable exists, yes. Computers can make calls, meaning that there's no solution. A good secret required to call someone can't be memorable.

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chonglibloodsport

in reply to Echo Dot • 2 settimane fa • •

Sure you can have a unique identifier. That’s not the issue. The issue is that anyone can contact you via your phone number! This is not a problem with chat apps where people need permission to add you to their contact list. Why not have a system like that?

Same goes for credit cards. They should need to ask for permission to charge your credit card. Merely knowing your credit card info should not be enough.

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rollerbang

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For CCs 3DS does exactly this, though not implemented everywhere.

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Echo Dot

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But then you just get spammed with requests for connection. Just like spam email, the call coming through wouldn't be the point anymore it would be the connection request.

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gian

in reply to LOGIC💣 • 2 settimane fa • •

As today if I give you a phone number you have no idea who is the owner if you don't look up on some service.
It will not change if instead of the phone number we use the IMEI or a UUID, somewhere you need to have a link between the owner and the something, if nothing else in your phone and at the phone company.

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AwesomeLowlander

in reply to LOGIC💣 • 2 settimane fa • •

Would you care to describe how you would implement said system? Because I can't see how that would work technologically

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LOGIC💣

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I intentionally was vague because there are many possible existing ways to accomplish each thing I said, and it is up to the phone company to innovate.

The simplest way to keep people from guessing phone numbers is to make them very long and sparse. If an autodialer had to dial 1000 invalid numbers before finding a valid number, it would make the endeavor that much harder. This is just a convenient example because the cryptography equivalent is harder to explain, but you could make contact info so hard to guess that it would be basically impossible.

Probably the easiest way to explain how to keep people from passing contact info is to imagine a two step process like facebook has. If I pass your facebook username to someone else, they don't automatically become your friend. The cryptographic equivalent would involve a chain of trust, but again, harder to explain.

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explodicle

in reply to LOGIC💣 • 1 settimana fa • •

I love cryptography! Technical explanation please.

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Natanael

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Literally just use existing standards (STIR/STUN) with some filtering by source network, etc

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AwesomeLowlander

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Still not seeing how it would work. You're dropping random bits of the system and saying it would work but it's too complicated for you to explain, so there's really nothing to discuss.

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WhyJiffie

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not op but signal has basically solved this. users are not just randomly accessible by anyone. they can share a long URL that contains an ID, or make a short username they like and pass around to people. and even then the recipient has to accept being contacted by each other user

true that signal now relies on the phone number system for trust and safety, but that's not core to how signal works, it could be replaced if they really wanted.

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AwesomeLowlander

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At that point, you (well, not you per se) are basically suggesting to replace the telephone system with a Signal-esque system. Which would break a billion things in real life, for little to no gain.

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WhyJiffie

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any change would break a billion things in real life, so we could at least have a proper replacement.

the problem with signal here is that it's centralized, probably couldn't even handle the load besides other problems. but that's solvable, like look at simplex which is similar

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nyan

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Phone numbers are the equivalent of IP addresses. It's just that the accompanying DNS solutions are pretty badly broken and the firewall options are all iffy.

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Federal political sources downplayed the seriousness of the issue, believing the issue was not related to a data leak or breach.
Sources noted the private contact information for politicians was often already widely available and known by stakeholders and members of the public they had interacted with. Some pointed out that politicians often kept the same contact details for years, from when they were more junior politicians who freely distributed their numbers on public documents like press releases or community announcements.

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General_Effort

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It's kinda funny how times change.

In Germany, it even used to be that your phone number, along with your name and address, was published in the phone book, by law. If you wanted to be delisted, you had to provide a valid reason, such as being stalked. Just because was not good enough. At every street corner was a phone booth with the phone book of your town with your name and address. At post offices, you could find phone books from other towns. (The phone system was run by the postal service, which was a government agency.)

Phone books were a bit of a plot point in Terminator. The terminator gets the list of Connors from the phone book and kills them in that order.

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Captain Aggravated

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One thing that never got digitized and put on the internet was the phone book. And for damn good reason.

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General_Effort

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I doubt there's anywhere where the phone book wasn't digitized. In Germany, the requirement to publish your address + number was eventually dropped, though; maybe because the phone system was privatized.

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Captain Aggravated

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I'm speaking of my experiences in the United States. Here, phone books tend to be separated into white pages and yellow pages. The white pages listed names, addresses and phone numbers of private lines, usually homes, and the yellow pages listed businesses. Taking out a listing in the yellow pages was the SEO of its day.

When the internet happened, the one thing that never really happened was a freely searchable database of the white pages. One thing the internet was never useful for as an upstanding citizen was looking up personal phone numbers.

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muusemuuse

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Yes it did. Data brokers are a thing. They sell your information to anyone they want and aren’t responsible for anything that happens.

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muusemuuse

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Why do we still still use phone numbers for communication? It’s a terrible idea. One unifying piece of information that if anyone gets they can use. Bah.

We should have a communication method that both sides consent to before allowing the connection. Either side can kill that connection at any time by revoking permission on either side. The contact info shouldn’t be the same for everyone either, but something ephemeral instead. Unique. A burner phone number that’s different to each person and only useful if the connection originates from the one meant to have that number.

It’s 2025. We still have “you have been hacked, give me gift cards to save your Google Chrome” style shit going on.

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luckyeddy

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This sounds cool!
Reminds me of SSH keys a bit!

What is an SSH key? SSH key pairs explained

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The Final Test Starts Now! | Duolingo Anime - Episode 1

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Didn't even watch. I'm assuming it was AI generated.

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Korea's military faces officer shortage amid record exodus - The Korea Times

According to data obtained from the Ministry of the National Defense by Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), the number of voluntary resignations among officers and noncommissioned officers with 10 to 20 years of service reached an all-time high last year.
A total of 1,821 personnel in that category left the military in 2024, up from 960 in 2021. As of the end of September this year, 1,327 had already filed for voluntary discharge.
The number of officers taking leave has also increased sharply, from 2,252 in 2021 to 3,412 last year, with this year’s figure already at 3,401.

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Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns

new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics
“Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns

Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday, as new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics, endangering mi…

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RedGreenBlue

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The US downgraded themselves to third world disease prevention capabilities recently, right?
So super ebola is gonna come from the US.

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American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Including Beatings and ‘Threats of Rape’

Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with “extreme brutality” on Monday, including beatings and “threats of rape,” after being taken by Israeli forces from international waters while aboard the Conscience Freedom Flotilla.

In a video statement published to social media, Schnall – a Los Angeles-born photojournalist who had been reporting from the flotilla for Drop Site News – recalled the “extreme brutality” she allegedly experienced during her captivity.

“Any flotilla member who upset the Israeli guards was subjected to twisted and tightened handcuffs and some received beatings,” she said. “I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways.”

The journalist continued, “Many comrades, understandably, do not want their identity made public when recounting this treatment. During the evening, the men were tormented by guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened with pepper spray. Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”

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Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with "extreme brutality," including beatings and "threats of rape."

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Something tells me this won't be reported on by the NY Times. They are only interested in fictional rapes of non-existent Israeli women.

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geneva_convenience

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Israeli captives felt like they were going to get raped because their guard stared at them for a few seconds.

Palestinian captives should not feel like they were going to get raped because their guards yell at them that they are going to rape them.

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American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Including Beatings and ‘Threats of Rape’

American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Inclu ...

Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with "extreme brutality," including beatings and "threats of rape."

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Venezuela's Maduro calls Nobel Peace laureate Machado a 'demonic witch'

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday called opposition leader Maria Corina Machado a “demonic witch", two days after she won the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democracy. The Nobel Committee praised Machado’s “tireless work” for human rights in Venezuela, long at odds with Washington since the Trump administration deployed warships nearby.

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mcv

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Venezuela has been at odds with the US since long before Trump deployed those warships.

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resipsaloquitur

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Imma say it. Both sides.

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Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows [Jack Poulson and Wyatt Reed | October 13, 2025]

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The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighborhood. Known as ‘Site 81,’ the U.S.-built facility houses a hyper-secretive intelligence base.
When Iran struck a series of targets in the heart of north Tel Aviv with ballistic missiles on June 13, Israeli authorities immediately cordoned off the area to prevent journalists from filming the damage. “The building on this compound was just hit,” Trey Yingst of Fox News reported as he arrived that evening at the site of HaKirya, Israel’s Defense Ministry headquarters, and the nearby Azrieli Center. But within seconds, Israeli police officers arrived to aggressively shunt Yingst away from where he was standing, just north of the HaKirya Bridge on the west side of Menachem Begin Road.
That day, Iranian missiles struck the north tower of the Da Vinci apartment complex roughly 550 meters southwest of Yingst’s location. The Grayzone has determined that the building sits immediately south of the “Canarit” / “Kannarit” Israeli Air Force towers and above an underground military intelligence bunker jointly administered by the US and Israeli militaries. According to an analysis of leaked emails, public documents, and Israeli news reports, the location is host to a highly secretive, electromagnetically shielded intelligence facility known as “Site 81.”
Israel aggressively censors information relating to its urban military and intelligence facilities while simultaneously accusing its adversaries of engaging in ‘human shielding’ – a practice of protecting military targets with civilian populations that is prohibited by international humanitarian law. While the existence of a U.S. Army project to expand Site 81 to a 6,000 square-meter facility was widely reported from government records circa 2013, the specific location remained unknown...

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How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon

For the early Zionists, settling Palestine meant settling the largest possible territory that vaguely overlapped with their biblical vision of the holy land.

Maps presented by the World Zionist Organization to the Paris Conference clearly show that Zionists sought to include in their territory southern Lebanon, including the Litani River and up to the coastal city of Saida - an estimated 60km from the current border.

Zionists, like all European settlers, were also keen to secure the most fertile land and fresh water sources. Eastern boundaries of the proposed map included large swathes of Syrian and Jordanian territory that fully engulfed Lake Tiberias and the Jordan River. French counter-proposals forced the Zionists to confine their activities after WWI to what is now referred to as historic Palestine.

Initial ambitions to colonise southern Lebanon were shelved but never extinguished. During this latest war, Michael Freund, who previously served as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deputy communications director, claimed that “historically speaking, southern Lebanon is in fact northern Israel”. He cited the Book of Joshua as mentioning “Sidon explicitly as being promised to the Jewish people”. Freund also listed several shrines in the south as Jewish and evidence of the right to the land.

The invocation of religious sites as justification for colonial conquest is an old and debunked Zionist trope. Freund was not alone in reviving it. One of Israel’s pseudo-archaeologists, Zeev Erlich, was embedded in the Israeli army during the recent invasion of Lebanon. Israeli troops burned and destroyed parts of the shrine. Before withdrawing, they demolished the surrounding historic buildings of the village’s old quarter, the very place they claimed as theirs.

How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon

Domestic haggling over the disarmament of Hezbollah is overshadowing the long-term and regional dimensions of Israel's war

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Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup

Meanwhile, the Venezuelan opposition, led by former presidential candidate María Corina Machado, the far-right extremist who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, used the UN General Assembly (UNGA) as a lobbying platform, courting the Trump administration and sympathetic foreign governments to support a coup to depose President Nicolás Maduro. She has been part of multiple calls for US interventions in Venezuela, including to, in her words, secure the “total asphyxiation of the Venezuelan economy.”

The opposition organized demonstrations in front of the Secretariat Building to denounce Maduro and call for the world to intervene. Pedro de Mendonça, Press Director for Machado’s campaign, hosted a protest saying, “Maduro is not the legitimate president of Venezuela, but the head of the Cartel of the Suns and the Tren de Aragua.” Mendonça called for “a free Venezuela and a secure West” through an “international coalition.” This is as direct a call for intervention as you could get. Machado retweeted it.

Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup | naked capitalism

The so-called opposition, with a much-needed rebranding assist from the Nobel Committee, proposes total economic surrender to US oligarchic interests.

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and immediately asked for a manager...

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Ceasefire Sparks Fresh Calls for Global Media Access to Gaza

Press groups are also demanding justice for the more than 200 journalists slaughtered in Palestinian territory over the past two years.

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Avid Amoeba

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Not gonna happen until the bodies are swept under the rug.

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VeryInterestingTable

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Yes peace is here! But not for palestinians, oopsy. Now they will order Hamas to give up their weapons and when they don't. Genocide continues.

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Katie Porter's meltdown proves candidates can't be shamed into quitting anymore

Katie Porter’s video meltdowns won’t make her quit her California governor campaign

In the digital era, candidates have no incentive to drop out; given the ocean of information, any attention is now good attention.

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What ever happened to Nicole the fediverse chick?

I haven't gotten her spam, nor heard her talked about in a while. Did she finally get banned?

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AmidFuror

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She and I started dating, and she's had a lot less time for making Fediverse friends since starting her new job.

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Damn, homie really putting her to work, huh? Sheeeeeeesh

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Perhaps the spammer got tired and many admins stepped up their game. As an instance admin I remember having to remove helluva many posts featuring Nicole. Hopefully anything like that will not happen again for a long time.

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UK arms received by Israel reach record high value in 2025

Last week, FactCheck revealed that Israel imported over £400,000 worth of arms from UK companies in June 2025 – the highest monthly amount since these records began in January 2022.

The exact nature of the items wasn’t specified in the data, but they were listed under a category that includes bombs, grenades, torpedoes, missiles, and ammunition.

And we can now exclusively reveal that September was the second highest value month on record, with over £310,000 worth of UK munitions under this same category arriving in Israel.

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Israel dismissed the Commission’s report as “distorted and false” and said the expert panel were acting as “Hamas proxies”.

The UK government told us it does not “export bombs or ammunition for IDF use in military operations in Gaza or the West Bank”.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-uk-arms-received-by-israel-reach-record-high-value-in-2025

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TeamAssimilation

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Aaand this is why UK has been so adamant to quell protests against Israel’s genocidal actions: money

Enjoy the MMOG of capitalism, where only a few griefers using exploits get to win.

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NoneOfUrBusiness

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While it's definitely not helping, the volume of money moving around (less than four million pounds year) is too small to be the only factor at play. (Neo)colonial ambitions, deference to daddy USA and plain inertia probably have at least as much to do with it.

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mrdown

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He all knew Uk and other countried like Canada and Germany lied about the arms ambargo

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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

^{Graham Readfearn (The Guardian)}

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I think we're going to have to genetically engineer some corals.

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ActivityPub - Collegamento all'originale

https://aussie.zone/u/stonkage

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Here in South Australia we are starting to see the effects and it's pretty chilling.

The algae bloom affecting many of our suburban beaches (which is most of Adelaide) and a lot of country ones are seeing huge numbers of dead marine life being washed up.

Anything from leafy sea dragons to fish, stingrays, and sharks. The foam created on some days covers whole sections of beach.

While apparently it's safe, there are warnings that you may experience breathing issues and rashes so your supposed to bring your inhaler and rinse off after you have been in. On windy days it can affect you even if your walking close to the beach.

As we head into summer the damage to local seaford providers (the seafood is fine to consume but people are wary) and cafe owners will be huge and is already starting to take effect.

Because our beaches are so close, people would go down after work for a dip or have a drink at the suburban pubs and cafes.

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-23/sa-…

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Carbon Pricing Strategies and Policies for a Unified Global Carbon Market

https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16070836

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Paragone

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From the Abstract:

"Our analysis reveals three critical success factors: (1) higher carbon prices per capita are essential for carbon reduction, (2) the necessity of penalties on carbon price per capita from EUR 20–EUR 100, and (3) expanded market coverage maximizes impact. To address global disparities, we propose a Uniform Carbon Pricing Mechanism under the Global Carbon Resilience Framework (GCRF), based on carbon price per capita tiered pricing: EUR 100/t (developed), EUR 30–50 (developing), and EUR 5–15 (least-developed countries). This balanced system supports vulnerable regions while cutting emissions, proving that fair carbon pricing is crucial for climate goals and economic stability."

Those points look sane, to me.

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Forty-two killed as bus crashes on South Africa mountain pass

N1 crash: Forty-two Zimbabweans and Malawians killed after bus veers off road in South Africa

The dead were nationals of Zimbabwe and Malawi returning home, officials say.

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India and Canada reset ties after strain of Sikh leader's murder

Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties

Canada's foreign minister visits Delhi as the sides restore ties strained by a murder on Canadian soil.

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German club condemns fan behaviour after tourists attacked

Dublin: FC Schalke 04 fans' behaviour condemned after tourists attacked

The incident on Abbey Street was said to have happened on Saturday, as supporters marched through the city centre.

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Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan tells BBC

Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan says

In an exclusive interview with BBC Panorama, the king says a two-state solution is the only answer.

^{Fergal Keane (BBC News)}

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NoneOfUrBusiness

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Translation: Me and my fellow Zionist collaborators are doomed because our citizens will notice we're doing zilch to help Palestinians.

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palordrolap

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I think this is more of a "If Israel keep this up, they'll be coming for the rest of us once they're done with Palestine. We need them as a distraction / punching bag to keep Israel busy."

So far Jordan has kept their heads down and been left alone, but King Abdullah is probably starting to feeling a little tight around the shirt-collar as Israel's belligerence continues to rise.

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Akasazh

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How are the Jordanians Zionist collaborators ?

Not trolling I don't really know but always thought they supported the Palestinians and argued for a two state solution.

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NoneOfUrBusiness

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E…

Their rhetoric is passable if you squint, but their actions are really not. It's a tossup between them, Egypt and the Emirates for the worst Zionist collaborators in the region.

The fact that there's a whole section titles "economic relations" should tell you all you need to know, but to add insult to injury they helped protect Israel from the April 2024 Iran strikes.

bilateral relations between Jordan and Israel

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Akasazh

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Ok, thanks for sharing. I did tell them a tier higher than the UAE, however I'll read up a bit on their position.

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Akasazh

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From the linked article I find nothing that really implicates them in Zionism.

The openly criticize every but of the genocide and have been amongst the first to call them out, they are strict on the west bank and have been calling for a two state solution.

The fact that they do have business accords and treaties with the Israeli has more to do with the fact that they are neighbors and Israel can basically land lock them, if they want.

I'm curious how you'd say they are more supportive to Israel than say the UK or other European countries, who have -with exemptions- more actively supported the Israeli.

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NoneOfUrBusiness

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The fact that they do have business accords and treaties with the Israeli has more to do with the fact that they are neighbors and Israel can basically land lock them, if they want.

They were doing fine until 1994, and less strictly until the early 2010s, so whatever problems they're solving by trading with Israel are clearly not existential threats. Jordan is too valuable to Western interests for Israel to "landlock them" as you put it. You'd expect an Arab Muslim country to at least boycott Israel, not actively pursue trade relations with them. Given their actions, their rhetoric is meaningless. Now the Jordanian government isn't run by Zionists obviously, but they clearly give much less of a shit than they want you to think.

I'm curious how you'd say they are more supportive to Israel than say the UK or other European countries, who have -with exemptions- more actively supported the Israeli.

That's why I said "in the region."

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Akasazh

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Fair enough, thanks for taking the time to explain your position.

I somewhat agree with you, I found the term 'zionist collaborators' a bit much, but I'd say that pragmatism and their own trade interests have priority over their moral stance. And I find that that is the most common attitude among many nations. Maybe Spain and Ireland did put some money where there mouth is... but generally nations skirt outright criticism over carefully worded 'disagreement' whislt not condamning Israel.

I agree you'd expect something more, certainly from a neigbour that 'considers the Palestinians as family', but here we are...

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Arcane2077

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Wait wasn’t Jordan one of the biggest genocide facilitators (outside of the west)?

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mrdown

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Yes

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frongt

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Not that I've ever heard of. Have a link?

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ayyy

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Why the fuck is there a king in 2025?

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NoneOfUrBusiness

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Surprisingly he's probably the most tolerable autocrat in that part of the world, but to answer your question: As with half the problems in the Middle East, the Brits did it.

the royal family

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Probably a British copycat of sorts.

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At least 27 people killed in fierce clashes between Hamas and clan members

Gaza City clashes between Hamas and clan members leave 27 dead

At least 27 people have been killed in one of the most violent internal confrontations since Israeli troops withdrew.

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mrdown

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Not clan members. They are israeli backed gangs

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phutatorius

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Drug-smuggling bandits, some of whom are related to each other. which is why they're misleadingly described as a clan.

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mrdown

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The USA did not provide a single evidence about it and even Drug smugglers shouldn't be killed but being jailed . It is pretty clear that you do not care about human rights

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Cosmoooooooo

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Wipe out and ban your religious extremists, or they'll get you all killed - when they're not focused on killing you.

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Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

^{Jon Henley (The Guardian)}

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phutatorius

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It seems the Portuguese still remember the time of the generals.

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Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say

Overflowing rivers swept through entire villages, triggered landslides and swept away roads and bridges

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Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?

Archive article: archive.is/lx80A

Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?

Trump’s stance on Gaza shifted after Israel’s attack on Qatar — a close ally where he and his family have key business deals.

^{Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)}

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WhatsHerBucket

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I’m sure a jet probably helps

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NoneOfUrBusiness

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Not exactly the most surprising outcome of all time.

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Chinese coast guard rams and damages a Philippine vessel off an island in the South China Sea

https://apnews.com/article/south-china-sea-thitu-island-philippines-7dfa0e6533236d442271176695039a6d

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NatakuNox

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South China Sea??

Never heard of it... There's a North Phillipine Sea.

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52fighters

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China won't stop until someone gives them a bloody nose.

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A Myanmar town lies in shambles as both sides in civil war vie for control

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/53315431

Photo gallery of the town: apnews.com/photo-gallery/myanm…

https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-shan-tnla-civil-war-kyaukme-f01ac6752ba36f0ef6c34a151510f45e

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Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist"

Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist" - LGBTQ Nation

The politicians held signs that said "genocide" and "recognize Palestine" while Trump spoke.

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Always glad to see Israelis stand up to Trump and Netanyahu.

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Garbagio

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Deadass before reading the article I thought it would be Likud bitching that he paused their genocide for 5 minutes.

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Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50903066

Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/australias-queensland-reverses-policy-pledges-keep-using-coal-power-2025-10-10/

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Naich

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That's fine. We didn't need a habitable planet anyway.

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dizzy

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Damn straight and I wanted all this plastic in my brain and balls anyway!

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BreadstickNinja

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Renewable energy would "blight the landscape"? As compared to coal?

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Carmakers accused in huge UK lawsuits of cheating diesel emissions tests

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50902884

Owners of diesel vehicles made by Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Nissan, Renault and the Stellantis-owned brands Peugeot and Citroen between 2012 and 2017 allege the companies cheated emissions tests.
The manufacturers are accused of using unlawful "defeat devices", which detected when vehicles were being tested and ensured nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions were kept within legal limits under test conditions.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/carmakers-face-key-trial-uk-lawsuits-decade-after-dieselgate-scandal-2025-10-13/

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Powering the deadly EV boom: 30,000 Chinese migrant workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44006161

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Driven by economic and social pressures, tens of thousands of workers from China, mostly middle-aged men, are employed in eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry, which has sprung up in the last decade. Just as critical minerals crisscross the globe before they’re incorporated into cutting-edge products, so too do some of the people who make the world’s green dreams a reality.
[According] to more than a dozen of these Chinese workers and their family members, as well as Indonesian labor leaders who have negotiated factory conditions with top Chinese executives [it was found] that, even following fatal accidents at the smelters, efforts to improve working conditions have been slow, hindered by a lack of oversight from companies, governments, and international labor groups that were dependent on U.S. funding terminated by the Trump administration. We also obtained an internal company review of a nickel smelter expansion that shows facilities are likely spreading pollution and illness well beyond factory walls. Despite the challenges, new nickel processing plants continue to emerge in Indonesia and hire from China.
Before joining Indonesia’s nickel rush, most of these Chinese men had spent almost all their lives in their home country, working in declining steel factories. [...] they had never before owned a passport or boarded a flight. Their leap into the nickel refining industry has helped create entire towns on remote islands in Indonesia, and it’s made them an unlikely backbone of the world’s green energy transition.
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Nickel is a crucial component of EV batteries and energy storage systems. More nickel in an EV battery pack means longer mileage and improved performance from a single charge.
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Indonesian workers, the Chinese companies that run the nickel factories, and international labor and environmental organizations have been attempting to improve working and living conditions. But the few changes that have taken place have come slowly. And such efforts have been hamstrung by the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which terminated almost all international grants from the U.S. Department of Labor. Those grants funded various initiatives to improve labor rights, occupational safety, and health, including in Indonesia.
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“Tsingshan [Holding Group, a Chinese metal and stainless steel giant Tsingshan that was among the first companies to set up production in Indonesia in the early 2010s] started to snatch up economically strained factory workers nonstop in droves,” said Jiahui Zeng, an anthropologist studying eastern Indonesia’s nickel belt at Tsinghua University in China. “For Chinese nickel workers, migration is pushed by family pressure, such as buying an apartment in a better school district for their children or preparing for a son’s marriage.” But these pressures make Chinese workers extremely vulnerable.
“Terrified of losing their income, they are reluctant to organize and wary of speaking out in Indonesia,” she added.
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[Chinese migrant worker] Wong recalled the instructor telling them there were more than 40 accidents in the industrial parks [in Indonesia] each year that resulted in severe injuries and even deaths. [...] “I didn’t understand much at the time,” said Wong.
But before long, Wong had two close calls of his own. First, he burned the back of his right hand when metallic liquid from the furnace splashed at the exit of the waste tunnel as he was walking past. And one night after heavy rain, soon after he clocked out and left the furnace, Wong stepped on what he thought was a puddle, only to find out that it was a neck-deep pond. Not knowing how to swim, he was only able to save himself by grabbing a nearby pole and pulling himself out of the water.
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Some workers he knew weren’t so lucky. An Indonesian colleague suffered severe injuries to his fingers after disregarding safety protocols to manually fix a glitch in the pouring chain. Another Chinese worker walked onto the top of an electric furnace in wet working boots and was instantly electrocuted into unconsciousness.
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[A] review showed workers at the nickel-processing facilities, as well as residents nearby, were increasingly seeking care for respiratory diseases like tuberculosis, acute pharyngitis, and acute rhinitis. Despite the industrial park being operated by multibillion-dollar corporations, the villages surrounding it still lacked wastewater drainage systems and access to clean water. In six villages outside the complex, a quarter of the residents live less than 30 feet from polluted water sources, and 41% of the residents have symptoms of dry cough.
In 12 nearby villages, the number of children with signs of stunted growth due to malnutrition and gastrointestinal infections increased by 50% in two years. “Officials and agencies know about all this,” an environmental consultant and author of part of the report, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution at work, told Grist. Hardly any of the health and environmental risks were present before the construction of the Morowali Industrial Park [in Indonesia] they said.
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Yet as eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry grows, Chinese migrant workers still don’t have a seat at the table in discussions about their careers and safety.
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Chinese migrant workers drive Indonesia’s nickel industry for EVs - Rest of World

Over 30,000 Chinese workers travel to Indonesia’s remote islands to work in nickel smelters, fueling the global EV transition while facing dangerous conditions.

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Grimy

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Oil baron propoganda

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zeezee

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Ah yes the oil supporting Uproot Project of the Environmental Justice Fellowship...

Just because nickel mining is verifiably awful doesn't mean oil rig work is any better. The point most serious environmental groups make is that we shouldn't just replace fossil fuel based exploitation and environmental destruction with metal and rare earth ones instead.

We should focus on an overall reduction of consumption not just taking the over 1 billion cars and turning them electric but instead rethinking our whole relationship with nature.

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Grimy

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The oil industry spends hundreds of millions a year trying to stop EV through propoganda. Any article that starts with "Powering the deadly EV boom" is helping that campaign, even if they mean well.

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zeezee

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Actually fair enough - having read the whole article it does seem much more preoccupied with the dangers of nickel mining than the proven negative effects of fossil fuels and stuff like this is quite obvious pro-ff propaganda

It’s almost impossible to transition away from fossil fuels without nickel from Indonesia,” said Johnny Linghui Ni, a United Kingdom-based research analyst for Project Blue, a data provider on critical minerals. “And it may stay this way until at least 2030, if not longer.”

Still useful to learn about but compared to the landscape of positive oil rig articles this definitely doesn't pass the smell test - thanks!

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ToastedRavioli

in reply to zeezee • 2 settimane fa • •

The article doesnt talk about fossil fuels because it has nothing to do with fossil fuels. Everyone knows fossil fuels are bad, that doesnt give a pass to labor violations and the environmental issues with nickel mining in Indonesia.

Arguing otherwise is like saying that someone writing an article on the health issues of vaping and environmental issues with their battery waste isnt spending enough time talking about how bad smoking cigarettes is, or how bad cigarette butts are for the environment. Its like… the article is talking about completely different shit. Advocating for reforms in the nickel production industry doesnt necessitate opining on how fossil fuels are worse.

People have no media literacy anymore, for fucks sake. Fossil fuels propaganda would spend a ton of time saying “look how bad nickel mining is in comparison to fossil fuel production” which this article doesnt do whatsoever. The only secondary aspect of this article is about the collapse of steel industry in rural northern china has supplied most of the workforce to the nickel plants in Indonesia, and how those areas are contracting due to their workers being exported

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zeezee

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I feel it's complicated - on one hand yes they are supposedly anti-fossil fuels and are saying to replace them with electrified alternatives - on the other the website has so many pro-AI articles that do have some anti-ff messaging but also an underlying "well it does suck but it's unrealistic to power them with anything else so whacu gonna do"

Some data centers have invested in transmission and distribution networks, at times increasing their investment by over 35% to connect to the grid. Still, concerns about the energy deficit and the impacts of fossil fuels haven’t affected new investments, Rivera Cerecedo said.
“We aren’t seeing a slowdown in the industry,” she said. “The effort that companies developing data centers are making to stay in Mexico is big.”

and for a newspaper focused on "VCs sitting in Palo Alto to think twice when a proposal from Indonesia comes across their desk" the above does read like unvoiced support for whatever gets them their superintelligent AI dream.

Idk I'm just saying that this may not be pro-fossil fuels but its still definitely pro-capitlaism and industrial exploitation under the veneer of neo-liberal human rights concerns..

Telling the Untold Tech Stories

“My goal is to change hearts and minds.” Sophie Schmidt, the founder of Rest of World, an Award-winning nonprofit international journalism organization focused on the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble. Brunswick's Kirsty Cameron reports.

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ToastedRavioli

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The amount of people downvoting this very insightful and well written article is particularly inordinate. People just want to pretend that things have no consequences? Rarely, if ever, do market forces create happy-go-lucky stories about global production chains

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Grimy

in reply to ToastedRavioli • 2 settimane fa • •

I guess if it looks like something commissioned by the oil industry, people assume it is. The headline looks like something a bot would link me to try to convince me how "an electric car is the same as an f150 in the end".

Mining nickel looks like it sucks and there's some real consequences to it, but I feel like I'm hearing about it for an other reason.

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reddig33

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Lithium phosphate batteries don’t need nickel. Or cobalt. The industry has already started using them.

arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/i…

cnn.com/2022/06/01/cars/tesla-…

It’s back! The 2027 Chevy Bolt gets an all-new LFP battery, but what else?

255 miles of range, new infotainment, but where did all the torque go?

^{Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)}

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Russia ready for 'hot confrontation' with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns

cross-posted from: lemmings.world/post/35384425

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Russia ready for 'hot confrontation' with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns

"We can’t simply wait and assume that a potential Russian attack won't come before 2029," German intelligence chief Martin Jaeger said. "We’re already under fire today."

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Skiluros

in reply to floofloof • 2 settimane fa • •

I mean this was true 20 years ago, it wasn't as obvious before they invaded Georgia in 2008 (let alone now), but multi decade research (including research that accounts for preference falsification) has clearly shown a consistent level of support among a strong majority of russian society for genocidal imperialism.

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phutatorius

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Propaganda works.

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Skiluros

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Russian society's genuine love for genocidal imperialism has nothing to do with propaganda (if that's what you were referring to).

Mind you, they are fully capable of change, they just don't want to and have no incentive to do (Westerners enabling and promoting their victim-hood narratives only contributes to this).

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phutatorius

in reply to Skiluros • 1 settimana fa • •

Russian society’s genuine love for genocidal imperialism has nothing to do with propaganda (if that’s what you were referring to).

Oh, I'd venture that propaganda is one big contributor to that sentiment, even if the sentiment has been present for a very long time (certainly since WW2). Old horseshit is still horseshit.

Look at American exceptionalism as another example of long-standing unfounded belief that's exploited by many factions of that country's ruling elite.

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Skiluros

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As I said, I don't buy the propaganda excuse. Independent information sources (in russian) have always been easily available and accessible by all (literally in under 10 seconds). Just look at the creation dates of the DW Russian or BBC Russian YT channels (or even their own TV Dozdh). By mid 2010s YT was widely available not only on desktop, but even on smartphones. Not to mention russians full well know what the KGB is like and how dishonest they are.

Let me give you an illustrative example.

You have Vladimir Kara-murza, darling of the west, went to jail for public opposition to the full scale invasion, western educated and with UK citizenship. And yet here is a recent statement from Kara-Murza:

There is another reason why the Russian Defense Ministry recruits so many members of ethnic minorities [to fight in the war against Ukraine]: as it turns out, because it is psychologically really difficult for [ethnic] Russians to kill Ukrainians. Because we are one people. We are very close peoples, as everybody knows. We have nearly the same language, the same religion, and centuries of history in common. But if it’s someone from another culture, allegedly it’s easier [for them to kill Ukrainians]. I hadn’t really thought about it before. I thought the reasons were primarily economic. But after what [a colleague who spoke about the Buryats] said, I started thinking about it too.

He said this in a speech to the French senate, no less!

We are not on people and I want nothing to with any of them, be it putin or Vladimir Kara-Murza.

And yet WaPo decided to give him the opportunity to write another bullshit article about russian victimhood and innocence.

Putin’s anxiety is understandable. The Kremlin knows that public opposition to the Ukraine war is much greater than what its propaganda would admit.

Is Vladimir Kara-Murza under the influence of propaganda while living in the west?

Agreed regarding the negative elements of American exceptionalism. But people in the US have a spectrum of views and the US has had a measure of dynamism in terms of social attitudes. The same cannot be said about the overwhelming majority of russians.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Buryats Find It Easier to Kill Ukrainians

Julia Khazagaeva takes issue with Vladimir Kara-Murza's claim that Russia's ethnic minorities find it easier to kill Ukrainians than ethnic Russians do.

^{The Russian Reader}

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we are all

in reply to floofloof • 2 settimane fa • •

they couldn't and still can't handle their neighbor, so what makes them think they're now all the sudden ready for a new multinational conflict? what is Russian for spread too thin? reliance on their asset djt is helping them but is it enough?

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FishFace

in reply to we are all • 2 settimane fa • •

Their state of being unable to handle their neighbour is that they are winning incredibly slowly.

They don't have the ability to conquer anyone else, but that's not the only hot conflict that there can be. Drone attacks? Border skirmishes? Missiles "getting lost"?

Europe has also not successfully increased its military production to cope with the increased threat, so much of Europe's ability to fight back is tied up in Ukraine

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MushuChupacabra

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

Their state of being unable to handle their neighbour is that they are winning incredibly slowly.

And it's only cost them one point one million casualties so far.

Bleeding out is an idiotic way to "win incredibly slowly".

But I suppose the ends justify the means. In this case, ends refers to territory captured and held, and domestic oil production.

Winning incredibly slowly. LMAO

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StinkyFingerItchyBum

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"I am bleeding, making me the victor."

"I must apologize for Wimp Lo, he is an idiot. We have purposefuly trained him wrong, as a joke."

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FishFace

in reply to MushuChupacabra • 2 settimane fa • •

All casualties that Putin doesn't give a shit about, so why is that important, really? There may come a point where Russia's high casualty rate has significant domestic impact, but it is not yet. With control of the media, Putin is able to paint a much rosier picture at home, and when his military's ranks are swollen with convicts and North Koreans, the actual losses are of lower impact to begin with.

To put it another way: if Russia is currently losing, what would you call a state in which Russia stops advancing? What would you call a state in which Ukraine were able to take back - and then hold - territory?

People who talk shit about how Russia is losing, is idiotic and so on, I think still have the mentality most people did in the first months of the invasion, when Russia had just been shown to be a complete paper tiger relative to prior expectations. A war they were supposed to win in a few days is still going, and they haven't won it yet - a terrible humiliation for Russia. But the fact that they suffered a terrible humiliation, were ridiculously less powerful than most people believed, doesn't mean they're losing. "Slowly gaining territory at great cost" is not losing. Achieving a victory for Ukraine means a change from the current state of affairs; they need more weapons and support than they are currently receiving.

You haven't actually disagreed with any of the potential things I pointed at Russia being able to do, or at Europe's slow rearmament. Those were the substantive things.

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MushuChupacabra

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

All casualties that Putin doesn't give a shit about, so why is that important, really?

The Russians should put you in charge of signing up new recruits. LMAO

There may come a point where Russia's high casualty rate has significant domestic impact, but it is not yet.

Definitely put you in charge of the enlistment PR team. LMAO

With control of the media, Putin is able to paint a much rosier picture at home, and when his military's ranks are swollen with convicts and North Koreans, the actual losses are of lower impact to begin with.

That explains all the state controlled media encouraging all Russians to take lots of road trips. LMAO

To put it another way: if Russia is currently losing, what would you call a state in which Russia stops advancing? What would you call a state in which Ukraine were able to take back - and then hold - territory?People who talk shit about how Russia is losing, is idiotic and so on, I think still have the mentality most people did in the first months of the invasion, when Russia had just been shown to be a complete paper tiger relative to prior expectations. A war they were supposed to win in a few days is still going, and they haven't won it yet - a terrible humiliation for Russia.

At least you've correctly identified Russia's terrible humiliation. Special Military Operation. LMAO

But the fact that they suffered a terrible humiliation, were ridiculously less powerful than most people believed, doesn't mean they're losing.

Make that your first recruiting slogan. LMAO

"Slowly gaining territory at great cost" is not losing.

To learn more, contact your local Recriting Officer. LMAO

Achieving a victory for Ukraine means a change from the current state of affairs; they need more weapons and support than they are currently receiving.

Yeah, they've only been able to kill a smidgen over a million Russians with their meager resources. Thankfully, the Russians haven't sustained any serious equipment losses. LMAO

You haven't actually disagreed with any of the potential things I pointed at Russia being able to do, or at Europe's slow rearmament.

Sorry, I wasn't able to see any of your points through the field of one point one million sunflowers. LMAO

Those were the substantive things.

Of course they were. LMAO

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FishFace

in reply to MushuChupacabra • 2 settimane fa • •

Make that your first recruiting slogan. LMAO

Most of your reply is just continuing down this nonsensical fantasy. Are you ok?

You still haven't replied to the points about European preparedness potential future russian aggression, and have now to top it all conflated casualties and deaths.

Lmao indeed. But I'm guessing you won't be laughing the next time a cargo ship registered conveniently in the Caribbean "accidentally" causes damage to Western interests. Will you then connect your complacency to what's happening?

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MushuChupacabra

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

You still haven't replied to the points about European preparedness potential future russian aggression, and have now to top it all conflated casualties and deaths.Lmao indeed.

Russians have treachery going for them, and that's about it. As far as military might is concerned, you can watch Russian soldiers, pilots, operators, drivers, vehicles explode in Ukraine. Up close and personal footage.

But I'm guessing you won't be laughing the next time a cargo ship registered conveniently in the Caribbean "accidentally" causes damage to Western interests. Will you then connect your complacency to what's happening?

Sabotage and treachery. This is what you do when you don't have the Might. Whatever master plan you're trying to spell out is an increasingly lame Hail Mary. If you want an accurate assessment of what they're capable of militarily, land, air, or sea, watch them bleed during the Special Military Operation.

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FishFace

in reply to MushuChupacabra • 2 settimane fa • •

Cool! And since "sabotage and treachery" are perfectly capable of dealing great damage to Ukraine and other European nations alike, we should not be gung ho about Russia.

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MushuChupacabra

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

Cool! And since "sabotage and treachery" are perfectly capable of dealing great damage to Ukraine and other European nations alike, we should not be gung ho about Russia.

Conversely, we can watch them hemorrhage abroad, while all their domestic refineries burn.

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stoy

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

Exactly how is Russia winning the war in Ukraine?

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FishFace

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They are slowly gaining ground. If the war stopped today with the front line frozen they would have failed to achieve key objectives but would have succeeded in stealing vast amounts of territory with natural resources, people and industry (whatevers not destroyed), securing a corridor to Crimea, intimidating many small countries, and creating a bigger buffer between Russia proper and unfriendly countries.

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stoy

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Russia is using WWII equipment, Ukraine recently retook a big piece of land, Russia's economy is on the brink of collapse, opposition of the regime grows bolder day by day.

This does not seem like a winning power to me.

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FishFace

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Russia is using WWII equipment

Yeah it's pretty ridiculous. The outcome is what matters, though.

Ukraine recently retook a big piece of land

I don't think this is true, and in any case, Russia is still advancing consistently. Go on DeepStateMAP and check the past few months (not every day - just once per month) and you will get the picture: no major breakthroughs, but grinding advancement.

Russia’s economy is on the brink of collapse

It's been massively weakened by sanctions but a quick google for russian economy "brink of collapse" reveals as many articles predicting this as dispelling the predictions going back at least two years.

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phutatorius

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

If the Russian economy is on the brink of collapse, there will be confident assertions it's not true until the actual day of the collapse.

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Voroxpete

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

Gaining ground isn't the same thing as winning, a lesson that the Russians should be all too familiar with, as it's how they beat the Germans in WW2 (though a more accurate point of comparison would be Germany's failure against the West in WW1; they held significant ground in France at the time of their surrender. It wasn't that their lines collapsed or that they were outmanoeuvred on the battlefield; it was their economy that could no longer bear the weight of the war). It is, in fact, an extremely effective strategy to slowly cede ground at a cost that is too high for your aggressor to bear, and that's exactly what Ukraine is doing to Russia. This doesn't mean Ukraine is guaranteed to win, but their success largely depends on the continued support of their allies in Europe and North America. Whereas Russia has no real clear path to success at this point.

Russian doctrine relies on punching a hole, moving and exploiting that gap to create a salient and outmanoeuvre your enemy. Ukraine has gotten too good at entrenching, and is creating deeply layered defences that the Russians have no way to break through in a decisive fashion, and Ukraine is being extremely careful with it's manpower, whereas Russian continues to waste theirs on pointless attacks and dispersed operations. We're seeing constant footage and reports of Russian sections consisting of only 2-4 men attacking over open ground with no vehicle support, and getting picked off as they come in by Ukrainian machine gun positions and FPVs. The Russian economy is grinding to a halt under the weight of the war; they held out a lot longer in the face of sanctions than anyone in the West predicted, but the choices they made early on to keep the economy flowing are now turning into major pain points (massive interest rate hikes to control inflation now turning into a serious lack of investment and consumer spending, dumped foreign currency reserves used to float the rouble now leaving them with no fallback for the hard times ahead, etc). Ukraine has developed new long range attack drones that can strike deep into Russia, opening up all of their industry, and particularly their oil refining capabilities, to attack. Russia is so big that they simply cannot defend all of it from aerial attack, and Ukraine's intel is good enough that they can continually shift their focus to wherever Russia isn't defending.

This is why Putin is eager to talk peace now. He would love to, as you describe, stop with their current gains. That would actually constitute a win. The longer this goes on for, the worse it gets for Russia, while Ukraine can continue to hold out for as long as we continue to stand with them and keep them supplied. Their manpower losses are serious, but manageable if they continue with their current strategies, and while Russia continues to hammer their infrastructure, Ukraine has superior - and more efficient - air defence and most of their manufacturing happens outside of the country where Russia can't hit it.

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FishFace

in reply to Voroxpete • 2 settimane fa • •

Russian doctrine relies on punching a hole, moving and exploiting that gap to create a salient and outmanoeuvre your enemy.

According to whom?

According to the actual battlefield, Russian doctrine relies on throwing wave after wave of poorly trained criminals and shanghaied DPR/LPR citizens into the machine guns, artillery and drones of the Ukrainians.

Don't get me wrong, there are massive weaknesses, and we may see Ukraine exploit them. But we aren't seeing that translate to battlefield success. Putin hasn't shown any eagerness to talk peace; only the same old "peace" meaning capitulation. He's been keen on that since the beginning.

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Voroxpete

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

According to whom?

Funnily enough, experts on Russian battlefield doctrine. The ones I talked to all work in the CAF, but you're welcome to search up your own sources on the subject. This guy was the commander of the US armed forces in Europe from 2014 to 2017, so I'd say he probably knows his stuff, and his analysis aligns with that of the experts I've spoken with;

If you're trying to understand the disconnect between their doctrine and what's actually playing out on the battlefield, it's surprisingly simple really. This is what happens when you have an inflexible command structure that relies exclusively on doctrine and rigid adherence to chain of command (eg, individual soldiers are basically just machines to operated by their superiors), mixed with a huge amount of institutional corruption and an unwillingness to report the basic facts of the situation on the ground because it's politically unfavourable to admit that things aren't going to plan. The doctrine says "Smash a hole" so they try, and fail, repeatedly to smash that hole. That leads to waves of men being thrown at targets to no effect because if you haven't smashed the hole you can't move on to step two, so you just keep on repeating step one.

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FishFace

in reply to Voroxpete • 2 settimane fa • •

The Russian thirst for poorly trained conscripts cannot be adequately explained by corruption and poor reporting obscuring what's actually happening. At some point you have to accept the possibility that Putin knows what's happening and is ok with it.

Sure, it's possible that Russia hasn't changed its doctrine in 3 years, but it seems unlikely. Old doctrine is obsolete on a battlefield where all movements are immediately observed and armoured vehicles are more vulnerable due to a proliferation of anti tank weapons.

But throwing cannon fodder at the guns to reveal where they are, then shooting them with something else - that never stops working as long as you have cannon fodder.

I wonder if we're just arguing over whether this strategy is something deserving of praise, with you thinking that, since I characterise the balance favouring Russia, I think this is strategic genius? In case of that, I don't; it's stupid and wasteful. But it's also working in the sense that it's gradually pushing Ukraine back.

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Voroxpete

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

The Russian thirst for poorly trained conscripts cannot be adequately explained by corruption and poor reporting obscuring what's actually happening.

I'm really not sure why you feel this needs any further explanation. I've already covered how their doctrine is failing them, and it's resulting in troops being pushed into the meat grinder instead. If you're confused on some particular point, maybe try asking questions instead.

But throwing cannon fodder at the guns to reveal where they are, then shooting them with something else - that never stops working as long as you have cannon fodder.

75% of battlefield kills in Ukraine are made by explosive equipped FPV suicide drones. These can attack from any position and angle, and can loiter in an area for a long time, so the notion that they're revealing the position of enemy guns with these attacks does not hold up to the reality on the battlefield. It may be the belief of some of the commanders that that's what they're doing, but if so, they're wrong.

But it's also working in the sense that it's gradually pushing Ukraine back.

I covered this in my first reply in this conversation. If you're going to repeat arguments that I've already countered, without offering any additional counterargument or support for your claim, then I might as well try to have a debate about quantum physics with a toddler.

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FishFace

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I covered this in my first reply in this conversation.

What you specifically said was "It is, in fact, an extremely effective strategy to slowly cede ground at a cost that is too high for your aggressor to bear" but then ignored the fact that Russia seems extremely willing to bear the cost it is paying.

75% of battlefield kills in Ukraine are made by explosive equipped FPV suicide drones.

Most FPV drone kills are not first strikes against moving troops. They are more often used to to prevent recovery of a disabled vehicle or to finish off someone who's wounded. There is a first-hand account of this here but if you're following the war and think back to videos you've seen of FPV kills you'll probably recognise this.

I’m really not sure why you feel this needs any further explanation.

Think of it this way then: if you can explain a phenomenon by a potential adversary as either a conscious choice or a blunder, attributing it to a blunder is risky, because you start to assume that party is incompetent.

Don't forget the context: I replied to a comment saying that Russia could never threaten another country because it was struggling so much in Ukraine. I don't mean that it's "slowly winning" to mean, "I am very confident that, without other changes, Russia will win, but it will just take many years." I mean that Russia is advancing, able to maintain an effective fighting force and remains a real threat.

There are very real reasons to think that Ukraine's war against Russia's oil economy will eventually provide the pressure away from the frontline that forces Russia to capitulate. But we can't be at all confident of this; economic collapse has, as I mentioned before, been repeatedly predicted and has not yet come to pass. That doesn't mean it won't, but it means that confidence about Russia's inability to threaten violence against other states is dangerously misplaced.

Ukraine's economy is only able to maintain its effort due to massive support from its allies. But Russia has powerful allies too: it would be a foreign policy loss for China if Russia fails; China wants the same "spheres of influence" thinking that Putin does (and Trump does) to prevail internationally.

If you want to say that Russia's slow battlefield progress is of little importance to the war in Ukraine I'd be inclined to agree with you, but if you want to stand by the original comment that Russia's struggles in Ukraine indicate its threats must be toothless I hope I've explained why I disagree.

I Fought in Ukraine and Here’s Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck

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Voroxpete

in reply to FishFace • 1 settimana fa • •

Thank you for clarifying. I think I have a better grasp of your argument now.

First, I'll try to offer a clarification of my own; when I talk about Russia's preference for rapid breakthrough operations, I've been using the term "doctrine" very specifically. What you're describing is not doctrine, but strategy. Doctrine is neither strategy, nor tactics, but it informs and guides both. I don't disagree that the current Russian strategy is one of disposable conscript assaults, but I suspect that strategy largely arises from the failures of their doctrine in the face of the realities of the conflict, and is not as deliberate a choice as you seem to think. I don't think there's really a way for either of us to be proven right here, as we'd need to be in the room with the Russian generals to say for sure.

Most FPV drone kills are not first strikes against moving troops. They are more often used to to prevent recovery of a disabled vehicle or to finish off someone who’s wounded.

I've read the linked account previously. It's an excellent and informative read, but it's value is deeply limited. Unfortunately, I can't provide many of the countervailing sources that I have access to, because I'm working from direct conversations with people with significant expertise and first hand knowledge, as opposed to documentary sources. I get that that's a claim anyone could make, and I'll freely acknowledge that I have no way to back it up. Trust me or don't, your call. But basically Jakub is speaking from a very limited, anecdotal view of the battlefield. His account may well be true for where he was stationed and what he was doing, but the broader statistics have shown that FPV drones have become the primary source of battlefield casualties, on both sides. This doesn't mean they're the primary mode of attack, per se, but they are the mode that is most consistent in creating casualties. This article from Kyiv Post covers it well, and while I don't consider them an unbiased source, the statistics cited actually come directly from the Russian MOD, and I can't see any value to them in lying about this; overstating the effectiveness of Ukraine's drones would, if anything, make Russia look worse here. According to Russian figures only 20% of battlefield casualties are caused by artillery, and only 4% by small arms. This pretty directly contradicts the claims Jakub makes in his account. I think it also largely speaks to how the war has more or less become a stalemate. Attacks from both sides are limited; even the Russian "human waves" aren't so much waves as very small groups of soldiers, as Gen. Ben Hodges describes in the video I linked earlier.

Don’t forget the context: I replied to a comment saying that Russia could never threaten another country because it was struggling so much in Ukraine. I don’t mean that it’s “slowly winning” to mean, “I am very confident that, without other changes, Russia will win, but it will just take many years.” I mean that Russia is advancing, able to maintain an effective fighting force and remains a real threat.

OK, so more broadly here, I think there's actually a lot we agree on. Yes, it would be deeply foolish to see Russia as a paper tiger, and yes, regardless of where we differ on Russia's state of play in Ukraine, the fact remains that they are certainly able to maintain an effective fighting force outside of that conflict, and would absolutely be able to prosecute additional limited conflicts (we'll get to that in a moment) while maintaining their position in Ukraine. But there are reasons for that that I think undermine some of your argument.

Basically, the problem for Russia is that they're not really able to fully commit to the war in Ukraine. This isn't a "total war" for them, and Putin lacks the ability to convince the Russian public that it should be treated as one. That's a key difference between Russia and Ukraine right now. The Ukrainian people will accept significant hardship if it means victory, because victory is the only path to survival. But for Russia, this war is Putin's nation building project, and maybe a chance to flex a bit and show off their prowess on the world stage. The average Russian isn't ideologically committed to the conflict, and isn't about to accept, say, food rationing in order to win this fight. Thus, while it's true that a significant portion of Russia's overall military capability remains at their disposal, that's because it is politically untenable for them to use it. Even their apparently endless manpower isn't truly endless; conscription waves come at a significant cost, both in terms of political capital (Russian elections may be a fraud, but dictators still only rule because people allow them to, as many kings and tyrants have learned throughout history; Putin is a keen student of history and painfully aware of this fact), and in terms of the economic impact of sending a generation of young men to die in a war instead of allowing them to contribute to your workforce. These costs are growing unsustainable for Russia, and as Ukraine's strikes on their gas refining capabilities continue to bite that will only grow worse.

While I agree that Russia could, in theory, commit significant resources to a wider conflict, there would need to be a reason for them to do so. This is why I say that Russia would have the ability to prosecute additional limited conflicts. That rules out almost every potential target they have at present; an invasion of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Turkey, or Japan would be a total war with all of NATO, and that's a fight that they would lose. Without the ability to conjure up some existential threat that would make such a war seem completely necessary to the Russian people, there's simply no way for Putin to move in that direction without facing down a full scale public revolt. Either in the short term or the long term it would guarantee the collapse of their government, either because NATO marches on Moscow or their own people do. I'm not saying this lightly; I have friends and loved ones who would likely be the very first in the line of fire if Putin did decide to open up a broader conflict. But I simply do not see a realistic version of events where a broader war with NATO is something that Putin can risk.

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FishFace

in reply to Voroxpete • 1 settimana fa • •

Yeah we're not actually that far apart, if at all 😀

The only way they're going to engage in violence anyone else is if they can be confident that it won't incur a response on the order of a NATO counterattack (or even much less). In the mainstream media this is often where the discussion stops, but it's worth considering how Russia and the West are already engaging in actions that could be seen as acts of war: cyber-attacks, airspace incursions from Russia; boarding ships (and presumably also cyber-attacks and airspace incursions our media just doesn't talk about) from the West. There are levels of aggression that will not be met with such a full-throated response, and Russia uses those acts to attempt to punish the West for its support of Ukraine already.

The scope exists there for more escalation, and that is where vigilance must be directed.

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Voroxpete

in reply to FishFace • 1 settimana fa • •

No argument on any of those points, I think you nailed it. My concern however is that we're seeing a lot of stuff in the media talking about Russia's readiness for another conventional war, and while that assessment is accurate, it needs much better framing than it's currently getting. When Zelensky is running around saying that Russia is gearing up for another invasion, that's just blatant bullshit. I get it, he needs to fearmonger to keep the weapons to Ukraine flowing, and I respect the hustle, but I worry that people are being worked up into this fear of Russian "escalation" that's going to actually lead to more people pushing for appeasement out of fear of what Russia can do.

Yes, they're not a paper tiger, and if pushed into a conflict with NATO, they could certainly make that conflict a brutal and bloody one (especially if the US sat it out), but that's not the same thing as "Putin will nuke the world if we so much as look at him funny", which is the message that people are getting from the current discussions around Russia's military capabilities. There needs to a better, more informed, more nuanced conversation about the realities of Russia's ability to prosecute a wider scale war.

And I think it is important to discuss the fact that Russia is currently losing this war, despite what their gradual battlefield progress would suggest. That matters because we need the average member of the public to understand that an end is in sight. Our continued support can see Ukraine through this, and there is a version of events where Russia is forced to capitulate and agree to at least somewhat neutral terms for an armistice. No, Ukraine is never going to be rolling tanks into Moscow, but that's not the only version of victory possible. We need people to understand that in order to justify the resources we're supplying to Ukraine (resources that are, it must be emphasised, currently allowing us to tie up and potentially defeat a major threat at a fraction of the cost of a conventional war).

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FishFace

in reply to Voroxpete • 1 settimana fa • •

Thanks for the conversation!

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phutatorius

in reply to Voroxpete • 2 settimane fa • •

This is why Putin is eager to talk peace now.

Putin's definition of peace is that the aggressor is rewarded and the international community hands Russia what it couldn't win by force.

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Voroxpete

in reply to phutatorius • 2 settimane fa • •

No arguments there.

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Aceticon

in reply to Voroxpete • 2 settimane fa • •

Ukraine has developed new long range attack drones that can strike deep into Russia, opening up all of their industry, and particularly their oil refining capabilities, to attack. Russia is so big that they simply cannot defend all of it from aerial attack, and Ukraine’s intel is good enough that they can continually shift their focus to wherever Russia isn’t defending.

It is especially delicious how Russia's greatest advantage in this war - their size relative to Ukraine, hence significantly higher manpower and resources than Ukraine, as well as territorial depth that let them have important military facilities beyond the range of Ukraine, has been turned by Ukraine into one of Russia's worst strategical weaknesses.

Anywhere in Ukraine can be hit by Russia, even with shitty shit drones like Shaheed, so Ukranians adapted, plus comparativelly to Russia their's is a smaller country hence with fewer sites of strategical value, which means having enough AA to take down most of Russia's missiles and long-range drones is actually possible, which is why Russia's ever larger mass attacks of late have had so much less effect than smaller attacks did at the start of the Invasion.

Meanwhile Russia's strategically important infrastructure is all over a large country, so they would have to deploy AA to defend every individual site and they don't have enough of the kind of AA that can successfully deal with low-flying drones (it doesn't matter how good their coverage with longer range systems like the S-500 is when that weapon system is not suitable to deal with Cessna-152s converted into drones flying at low altitude plus each missile costs many times more than each of those drones).

In this, Ukraine's strategy is masterful, IMHO.

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trajekolus

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

One consequence of Russia invading Ukraine is that Finland and Sweden joined Nato. Finland has a 1,340 km border with Russia, so Putin has not created a "bigger buffer" - he has managed to double Russia's border with Nato.
Also, the countries you label as unfriendly are peaceful countries who are only 'unfriendly' to Russia because they worry about Russian imperialist expansion, and Russia's aggression habit.

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phutatorius

in reply to trajekolus • 2 settimane fa • •

The whole border argument is silly anyway. Russia has the longest border of any country, and they expect that border to be surrounded with buffer states that they control. If they engulf them, then there's an even bigger border and more states to seize control over. It doesn't take much to see the self-serving imperialist logic of this position. They'll grab evrything they can until they're stopped. That's the real situation.

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Ilovethebomb

in reply to stoy • 2 settimane fa • •

If you measure success by territory gained, they're gaining ground. At a huge cost in lives and equipment, but they're doing it.

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Holytimes

in reply to Ilovethebomb • 2 settimane fa • •

End of the day wars winner is measured by the government and it's cost by it's people.

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LittleBorat3

in reply to Ilovethebomb • 2 settimane fa • •

But these are kilometers here and there, where Ukraine rather keeps forces alive than fighting for it.

Russia is not winning massive amounts of territory, their economy will crash once the war is over etc.

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REDACTED

in reply to stoy • 1 settimana fa • •

Are you for real right now?

Answer me these questions: Is Russia INVADING Ukraine? If so, do they succesfully hold any Ukrainian land? Then they're winning. Even if they only hold and keep east+Crimea, that means they won and gained territory. How does this not compute to some of you?

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stoy

in reply to REDACTED • 1 settimana fa • •

Ok so what you are telling me is that a country which invades another is still winning even if their army is in full retreat, as long as they remain in the other without giving up?

Because that doesn't make any sense.

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REDACTED

in reply to stoy • 1 settimana fa • •

Full retreat? Wtf are you talking about? Russia is not surrendering, quite the opposite actually.

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stoy

in reply to REDACTED • 1 settimana fa • •

I am taking your logic to the extreme trying to find the limits of it, you simply stated that as long Russia hols land in Ukraine then Russia is winning, which misses most data telling how well the parties are doing.

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REDACTED

in reply to stoy • 1 settimana fa • •

Mexico invades US and holds Texas. Mexico appears weaker, have lost more men, but they still hold texas with no end in sight. Is US winning?

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stoy

in reply to REDACTED • 1 settimana fa • •

That is not accurate to the situation in Ukraine.

Since the peak of the full scale invasion began in 2022, Russia has lost control of about 50 000 km2 of Ukrainian territory.

Entire fronts have been pushed back out of Ukraine.

So while the scale is still on Russias side, the war is going badly for them.

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phutatorius

in reply to FishFace • 2 settimane fa • •

Their state of being unable to handle their neighbour is that they are winning incredibly slowly.

They're winning so slowly that they've advanced essentially nowhere after their intial gains three years ago.

Their foreign trade is down the shitter since their ability to export fossil fuels has been badly degraded, and if they run out of money before they win, they're fucked.

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FishFace

in reply to phutatorius • 1 settimana fa • •

Do you think this means that German intelligence is wrong here?

"Essentially nowhere" has added up to quite a lot over the last three years since the major successful counteroffensive by Ukraine.

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realitista

in reply to floofloof • 2 settimane fa • •

Curious how he defines "ready".

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thecaptaintrout

in reply to realitista • 2 settimane fa • •

Ready to fuck around. Not ready to find out.

Threatening and posturing to destabilize Europe and NATO, while going heavily on grey zone warfare and divisive misinformation campaigns. At the top, should not want any kinetic warfare against NATO, but rhetoric, 'yes' men, and arrogance may make some think they can and should.

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WanderingThoughts

in reply to thecaptaintrout • 2 settimane fa • •

That's Putin, always claiming he's got a royal flush even when just holding a pair to try to intimidate the opponent into folding. It's the same every time.

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thecaptaintrout

in reply to WanderingThoughts • 2 settimane fa • •

Saddest part is his grand strategy is literally open source, i.e. "Foundations of Geopolitics", written by a Russian ultra nationalist, taught in Russian military academy's. Main points are weakening NATO and US by supporting internal strife and divisions, allowing Russia to take back its "land" and sphere of influence.

Top many willing useful idiots for them to use. . .

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Mangoguana

in reply to thecaptaintrout • 2 settimane fa • •

I read that book, boy it's a steaming crock of shit. They are following the worst book second to mein kampf that has soo many misconceptions that you really get a sense on why Russia is such a shithole.

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phutatorius

in reply to thecaptaintrout • 2 settimane fa • •

So: divide and rule, and do as much imperialism as they can get away with.

Guy must be some kinda fuckin' genius.

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CanadaPlus

in reply to thecaptaintrout • 2 settimane fa • •

Yeah, but that's kind of what they're already doing, in which case it's not news. He's implying they have some nebulous new kind of readiness.

Maybe they do, maybe he's just trying to get everyone on board with rearming. Which I guess is a good idea in any case.

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Aceticon

in reply to thecaptaintrout • 2 settimane fa • •

Also and as somebody else pointed out, if makes sense for him to try and scare European nations so that they refrain from sending as many weapons and ammo to Ukraine because of thinking they might need those to defend themselves from Russia.

So a sabble-rattling discourse and even the recent air-space intrusions by Russian military planes are cheap ways of trying to get the strategical gain of Ukraine receiving fewer weapons from the rest of Europe and even if those things fail he loses nothing from doing them (at this point, he's hardly going to get in a worst situation than he already put himself in).

It makes absolute sense to pursue a strategy where at best you gain something and at worst you lose nothing.

Now, if the response to the Russian intrusion in European airspace had been for European nations to set up and enforce a no fly for Russia inside Ukraine, that would've definitelly been a loss for him (at the very least the rest of Europe would protect Western Ukraine from Russian drones and air assets, freeing Ukranian assets to be used elsewhere), but the leaderships of European nations have yet to show a willingness or capability to act decisivelly like that as a group: even the help with weapons and ammo took ages to get going properly, was riddled with "red lines" (like "no tanks", then "no jets", then "no long range cruise missiles" and who could forget the whole "can't be used against Russian territory" artificial limitation) and there was a lot of feet-dragging, especially from Germany) so actual direct intervention even if only with air assets doesn't seem likely as response to "mere" Russian air space intrusions and unconventional warfare that can be denied (cyber attacks, election interference, support for extreme political forces, cutting of undersea cables and so on).

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dwalin

in reply to floofloof • 2 settimane fa • •

Remember that they want Europe to be afraid and stockpile material that otherwise would go to ukraine.

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mistermodal

in reply to dwalin • 2 settimane fa • •

It's time for you guys to decide whether you want direct war with Russia or not. Imagining that they aren't ready for it, and this is just a diversion, is seriously risky. I'm nervous with how Europeans are getting bolder the more Ukraine fails to fulfil its military objectives. Nobody is doing more than doubling down on political narratives that were dry in 2022.

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LittleBorat3

in reply to mistermodal • 2 settimane fa • •

You have a poster in the room with Putin on the horse, don't you?

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Jackhammer_Joe

in reply to LittleBorat3 • 2 settimane fa • •

And a life-size Putin cuddle cushion

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mistermodal

in reply to Jackhammer_Joe • 2 settimane fa • •

Do you find your "work" fulfilling?

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LittleBorat3

in reply to mistermodal • 2 settimane fa • •

No one finds your Russian BS fulfilling and it's also work to read it.

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mistermodal

in reply to LittleBorat3 • 2 settimane fa • •

Silly kid, trying to fill out the "free space" on his bingo twice. You're not too clever are you?

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mistermodal

in reply to LittleBorat3 • 2 settimane fa • •

I can tell you don't read Ukrainian newspapers by your blind dismissal of any military shortcomings. They bicker about it constantly. Why do you think Zaluzhny as exiled?

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dwalin

in reply to mistermodal • 1 settimana fa • •

When i want to exhile my political oponents i also put them as ambassador to one of my main alies.

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mistermodal

in reply to dwalin • 1 settimana fa • •

You clearly don't understand how organizational hierarchies work. In his position as ambassador he has zero leverage on military strategy, as he did in his military position. Why do you think he was removed from decisionmaking and the country itself?

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in reply to mistermodal • 1 settimana fa • •

Why is it always a .ml account with the shit takes?

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mistermodal

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Didn't watch 🤷🏻

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mistermodal

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Yes you did

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CanadaPlus

in reply to floofloof • 2 settimane fa • •

Define "ready", Martin Jaeger. They're second best in Ukraine, so it can't be in terms of capacity to win.

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floofloof

in reply to CanadaPlus • 2 settimane fa • •

If you disregard ability to win, any one of us is technically ready to attack Europe.

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merdaverse

in reply to floofloof • 2 settimane fa • •

I have an army of 1 with a water pistol ready to annex Switzerland

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boonhet

in reply to merdaverse • 2 settimane fa • •

You'd have a better chance than most armies, because they might actually let you in like that.

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Buddahriffic

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Nah, too late, they blew the bridges and tunnels in before he finished saying "Switzerland".

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CanadaPlus

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa • •

Watch out Europe, I'm coming, and I demand tribute in quality cheeses!

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Randelung

in reply to CanadaPlus • 1 settimana fa • •

Welcome, we'll gladly share!

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floofloof

in reply to CanadaPlus • 1 settimana fa • •

Hey, I'd like to join your army.

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CanadaPlus

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa • •

Excellent, I'm basically a taller Napoleon now. I just need a million more or so.

^(Yes,^ ^I^ ^know^ ^he^ ^was^ ^average^ ^for^ ^the^ ^time)^

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floofloof

in reply to CanadaPlus • 1 settimana fa • •

Gotta think though: more troops means less fine cheese per head. I suggest keeping it to a small but ruthless cheese extraction squad.

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phutatorius

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa • •

When they are under the Phutatorius Law, I will demand tributes of charcuterie, stinky cheese and Belgian monk beer. Also some good doctors and personal trainers to keep me from becoming too much of a lard-ass while enjoying the spoils.

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ms.lane

in reply to CanadaPlus • 2 settimane fa • •

They still have their usual 'wunderwaffle' to roll out - Waves of Humans and zero care for human lives.

Russia is as dangerous now as Japan was in WW2.

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ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝

in reply to ms.lane • 2 settimane fa • •

Japan had an aircraft carrier fleet rivaling the US, better carrier fighter planes than the US, and were occupying a lot of China, who was a peer opponent. It also took a US-USSR alliance to take them down.

Russia on the other hand is able to wreak a lot of havoc, and is also good on some technological fronts, like drone warfare, espionage and ballistic missiles, but it has recently lost a lot of its fleet against an opponent with no navy, and is stuck in trench warfare with equipment that in WWII would be the equivalent of muskets.

This whole posturing is because Russia ran out of easily recruitable people, and needs internal justification to start throwing in conscripts as well.

Oh, BTW it's "Wunderwaffe", if you want a "Wunderwaffle", go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won't fit in your mouth.

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lechekaflan

in reply to ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝 • 1 settimana fa • •

Only things they're really good at are propaganda and disinformation.

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮

in reply to ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝 • 1 settimana fa • •

Oh, BTW it's "Wunderwaffe", if you want a "Wunderwaffle", go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won't fit in your mouth.

Oh hell yeah. I know where I'm going for breakfast in the morning.

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phutatorius

in reply to ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝 • 1 settimana fa • •

Also, their foreign trade is going down the shitter because their ability to export fossil fuels has been heavily curtailed by Ukraine.

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Lumisal

in reply to floofloof • 2 settimane fa • •

A bunch of European businesses are still doing business with Russia, so doubt it's true.

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markko

in reply to Lumisal • 1 settimana fa • •

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business…

Money comes first

collaboration of international companies with Nazi Germany before their home countries' entry into World War II

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Treczoks

in reply to floofloof • 2 settimane fa • •

Putin is testing for years how far he can go. He uses salami tactics on NATO for ages.

A bit of sabotage here, planes and drones flying in or over NATO territory, ghost ships and shadow fleets doing crimes, disturbing GPS, etc, etc, etc.

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Evotech

in reply to Treczoks • 2 settimane fa • •

They’ve done that for literally forever yeah. Not something new exactly

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SaveTheTuaHawk

in reply to Treczoks • 1 settimana fa • •

Half his military has blown up in Ukraine.

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Treczoks

in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • 1 settimana fa • •

He still has the dangerous bits. The question is, though, how dangerous they still are...

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rozodru

in reply to Treczoks • 1 settimana fa • •

I don't think they work anymore. I would have thought he would have used a small one by now especially after Ukraine made advances into Russian territory.

But what the fuck do I know, I'm just a guy front of a monitor speculating on things I'm not qualified to speculate on.

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Treczoks

in reply to rozodru • 1 settimana fa • •

I think the vast majority will just fizzle. Still, it is a risk with the few that might work.

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GreenBottles

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa • •

Russia will have their asses handed to them.

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Sundiata

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa • •

We've been hearing this for years.

I am ready to have a hot confrontation with a pack of rabid hyenas.

....actually, that didn't sound right.

you know what? I'll just leave.

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Jumi

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa • •

Interesting that this comes at a time when resistance against raising the military budget us growing. That must be a total coincidence...

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manuallybreathing

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa • •

Germans say Russia plans to invade any day, likely tomorrow.

uh huh, Germany to annex poland when?

lots of fucking cretins in this thread smdh

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schizoidman via World News

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Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50900195

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Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries
“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.
Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.
“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.

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bitjunkie

in reply to schizoidman • 1 settimana fa • •

Are they "terrified" enough to shift their approach away from "cut every fucking corner imaginable, rinse repeat"?

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FosterMolasses

in reply to bitjunkie • 1 settimana fa • •

Worked for a chinese company and here to tell you- that is their approach, always has been.

Wouldn't be surprised if everything the "western execs" saw was a charade put on especially for them that falls apart as easily as Elon's cybertrucks on closer inspection. Don't believe everything you see at an expo or read in The Telegraph.

schizoidman via World News

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France's Macron won't resign, as no-confidence votes threaten his new government

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50899505

https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-macron-says-he-will-continue-serve-ignores-calls-resignation-2025-10-13/

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schizoidman via World News

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schizoidman
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India and Canada reset ties after strain of Sikh leader's murder

Relations hit rock bottom in 2023 when Canada's then PM Justin Trudeau accused India of being linked to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, claims Delhi denied. Both countries suspended visa services and expelled each other's top diplomats.
After the meeting of their foreign ministers in Delhi, the two sides announced a series of measures, including starting ministerial-level discussions on bilateral trade and investment.
"Reviving this partnership will not only create opportunities for enhanced economic cooperation but also help mitigate vulnerabilities arising from shifting global alliances," a joint statement said.

Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties

Canada's foreign minister visits Delhi as the sides restore ties strained by a murder on Canadian soil.

^{Neyaz Farooquee (BBC News)}

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mrdown

in reply to schizoidman • 2 settimane fa • •

I think soon she will build new relation with the Taliban

schizoidman via World News

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China's exports to US drop in September, while rise in global shipments hits a 6-month high

China’s exports to the United States fell 27% in September from the year before, even though growth in its global exports hit a six-month high.
Shipments to Southeast Asia grew 15.6% year-on-year in September. Exports to Latin America and Africa were up 15% and 56%, respectively.

https://apnews.com/article/china-trade-trump-tariffs-exports-4d65b77167ed9193244942923f0eef8d

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iceonfire1

in reply to schizoidman • 2 settimane fa • •

Does this suggest that merchants have added an intermediary country to the China->US supply chain?

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jacksilver

in reply to iceonfire1 • 2 settimane fa • •

Probably a mixture of that and dumping products on other countries (which there have been a couple of articles regarding this happening in Europe).

MicroWave via World News

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Lawmakers ejected from Knesset after disrupting Trump speech

Trump’s speech at Israel’s Knesset, its parliament, was briefly interrupted by lawmakers who were expelled from the plenum after shouting slogans during Trump’s remarks.

The Jerusalem Post identified those protesting as Aymen Odeh, an Arab Israeli and member of the Hadash alliance and Ofer Cassif, a far-left politician who is also a member of the Hadash coalition.

Odeh held up a sign that said “Recognize Palestine,” when he was ejected from the room. He later said in a social media post on X that he is calling for recognition of a Palestinian state as “the simplest demand, a demand that the entire international community agrees on… There are two peoples here, and neither is going anywhere.,” the post read in Hebrew, and that was translated by Grok on X.

Cassif also posted on X that their protest was “to demand justice,” accusing the Israeli government of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.

Lawmakers ejected from Knesset after disrupting Trump speech

President Trump’s speech at Israel’s Knesset, its parliament, was briefly interrupted by lawmakers who were expelled from the plenum after shouting slogans during Trump’s remarks.

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Triumph

in reply to MicroWave • 2 settimane fa • •

What exactly does "far-left" mean in the context of Israeli state politics?

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RangerAndTheCat

in reply to Triumph • 2 settimane fa • •

Apparently being anti-genocidal and want to recognize the shit ~~ tgg he stay ~~ that is still going
on… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: my far scarred fingers cannot type and autocorrect saves a bunch of my fuck ups haha thanks @yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de! For catching that friend 🫡

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yetAnotherUser

in reply to RangerAndTheCat • 2 settimane fa • •

Is "tgg he stay" an auto-miscorrected variant of "that is still"?

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RangerAndTheCat

in reply to yetAnotherUser • 2 settimane fa • •

Totally was! Haha thank you and corrected it 😅

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Mortoc

in reply to Triumph • 2 settimane fa • •

Somewhere in the vicinity of what it means in the USA.

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Triumph

in reply to Mortoc • 2 settimane fa • •

That doesn't really help.

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ayyy

in reply to Triumph • 2 settimane fa • •

It’s a synonym for “anti-genocide”.

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shalafi

in reply to MicroWave • 2 settimane fa • •

Imagine the US House kicking MTG or Boebert out on their ass. Or better yet, we need to get back to fist fights and dueling. Sick of the decorum. Especially, ahem, from one side.

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Japan wraps up unexpectedly successful World Expo

It had feared scant media and public interest would make the expo a flop. Read more at straitstimes.com.

^ST

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friend_of_satan

in reply to fne8w2ah • 2 settimane fa • •

I hate when I hear about things right after they end.

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Brkdncr

in reply to friend_of_satan • 2 settimane fa • •

Next one is in sae: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_203…

2030 world expo in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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redsand

in reply to Brkdncr • 2 settimane fa • •

Saudi Arabia. Nope. Stupid whores running the thing think they're FIFA.

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icelimit

in reply to fne8w2ah • 2 settimane fa • •

World expos are still a thing?

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One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery firms halts US exports over ‘hidden’ tariffs

Krone says ‘alarming’ levies on about 400 goods including hair dryers and combine harvesters have forced pause

One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery companies, Krone, has been forced to pause exports of large equipment to the US because of “alarming” and little-known new tariffs that are hitting hundreds of products from knitting needles and hair dryers to combine harvesters.

Among the products on the steel derivatives list drawn up in consultation with US manufacturers, Donald Trump is taxing 407 specific products ranging from tiny embroidery stilettos to cooker hoods, barbecues, fridges, freezers, dishwashers, hair curling tongs, grills, elevators, bridge and railway structures, agriculture equipment and wind turbines.

It has meant that since 18 August, companies such as Krone and the construction company Liebherr in Germany have to provide an unprecedented level of detail to customs border authorities certifying the origin, weight and value of any steel in their products right down to nuts and bolts.

One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery firms halts US exports over ‘hidden’ tariffs

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vegeta

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Asked what his US customers were saying, he said: “Many of them are surprised. When they saw Mr Trump talk about tariffs, they got the impression that the foreign companies are paying these tariffs, but what they now figure out is that it is the customer who pays.

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IndustryStandard
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Dutch government seizes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

BRUSSELS — The Dutch government has granted itself the power to intervene in company decisions at Dutch-based Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia.

The highly unusual step, announced late Sunday, grants the country the power to “halt and reverse” company decisions — meaning Nexperia cannot transfer assets or hire executives without Dutch government approval, according to national media.

The move is a significant escalation in relations between the Netherlands and China and could inflame wider trade tensions between Beijing and the European Union, with Europe caught in the middle of a tit-for-tat chips war between the U.S. and China.

Dutch government seizes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

The move could inflame wider trade tensions between Beijing and the European Union.

^{Pieter Haeck (POLITICO)}

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