HobbitFoot

If you ask Greenlanders if they want to be independent, they generally prefer independence.

If you ask Greenlanders if they want to be independent if it means a lower quality of life, they generally prefer to stay part of Denmark.

Denmark subsidizes Greenland to the cost of over €500 million a year. To replace that subsidy, Greenland would need to self generate over €8,700 per person per year. It would also need to do so in a manner that doesn’t invite American intervention.

It doesn’t. I’m commenting more on supporters like you’ve read online saying the current government is great.

A lot of communists here are like Ariel from The Little Mermaid. Their existing living condition is shit and they think that going to a different place will magically fix all their problems because everything just has to be better there.

Colombia and Brazil both declared Maduro’s election as illegitimate. They have also been in opposition of the capture of Maduro by the USA.

The Venezuelan government could likely consider this to be an act of war based on international law. The question right now is if it wants to.

Technically, Trump performed this attack without declaring war and his war powers without a Congressional declaration. Per American law, the USA isn’t at war with Venezuela. If Venezuela declares that this is an act of war, it gives Trump a better pretense to get war declared on Venezuela. It also vastly changes how neutral powers can treat both countries during the war.

Countries have fought wars without declaring wars before. The military action surrounding the invasion of the Falklands was done without either nation officially declaring war.

He pretty much is.

The Pope has some soft power when it comes to some morality, but countries routinely ignore the Vatican and it doesn’t really cause an issue.

The relationship is worse with a lot of American Catholics, who haven’t been happy with the last few popes due to their liberalness.

Trump has admitted that there are a lot of CIA agents in Venezuela. It was also suspiciously easy for the USA to get Maduro out of the country.

My guess is that the USA likely expects a coup to happen which will install a friendly regime.

China has a far weaker social safety net than a lot of people assume.

There have been wargames going back over a decade which highlight how vulnerable current aircraft carriers are to various forms of attack from nations like Iran. I would expect that China would be more than capable of destroying an aircraft carrier, especially if the carrier group wasn’t in the high seas but next to the Chinese coast.

Yeah. Kick them both out.

I don’t see how that affects his analysis, though. An American attempt to oust the Venezuelan government would likely lead to a wide scale guerilla war and South America would likely become more anti-American in the process.

That someone so high up in the administration is saying it likely means there are reasonable fears of this becoming a major issue.

This is going to sound strange, but a major problem in the world economy is the lack of Chinese consumer spending. It is at least ten percentage points below non-US developed countries and is a major reason for the trade imbalance between China and the rest of the world.

It has been suggested that the Chinese government increase its retired health care benefits to include more money for emergency events as, currently, a large chunk of that cost gets paid by the retirees.

And China didn’t veto the Gaza peace plan.

Saudi Arabia tends to have a tradition of ambitious projects that fail due to various reasons.

I was being recruited on to work on that project and I worked with some engineers who ended up working on it.

And Mamdani has stated that he is keeping on the current Police Commissioner for now.

I don’t see the coming administration targeting police reform outside the stated goals of a new agency being created to handle mental health related issues.

Similar backdoor control capabilities, usually at least officially frowned upon in Western tech companies, weren’t found in buses bought from Dutch company VDL.

Looks like that was discussed in the article.

Killswitches may be common, but it is major security implications if infrastructure is sold with them without the buyer knowing about them, which appears to the case here.

It also makes a case to not buy hardware from China if their manufacturers install these killswitches and don’t notify their owners.

Yeah, I’ve seen it from a few different videos, including one citing a 2005 Citibank report pointing out that this would become a major trend.

Wealth inequality is bad enough that I’ve even seen some marketing professionals mention it as a possible problem for some companies.

It seems like the commenter has been a thorn in your side.