That’s exactly what you get when you don’t punch the bully back. Russia broke the well defined post WW2 rule. It was a pretty simple rule too… Don’t try to rob your neighbour’s land.

They should not be rewarded in any way for it. If anything they already have been.

Very first thought was “surely that’s treason”.

I must look up the legal definition.

“Even if the U.S. continues to impose higher tariffs, it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of world economy,” the ministry said in a statement,

Very concisely put. We’re at that point. Trade is effectively shut down at this point between the two. My limited understanding is that on the US side this will hit farmers the hardest.

Guess we’re going to see a flood of cheap Chinese stuff in every other market in the world too soon.

Is that house arrest?

Thank you.

Could someone tell me how she was able to walk out of the court having been sentenced to prison?

Good luck with the surgery!

“I take him at his word in this sense”

That’s the problem right there. Dope. His word is worth less than the air used to create it. His MO is literally to lull people into a false sense of security then rob or kill them.

Some countries have a grandparents rule if that’s any use to you. Ireland is one.

My understanding is that any protections like that only apply to citizens while at the border and not foreigners looking to travel.

It was a reasonable question given you didn’t know. The oul down vote pile on was a bit much IMO but here we are.

There was supposed to be an agreement to stop hitting both types of infrastructure but only in the last day or so is my understanding.

This is far more likely to be media bias.

Yeah the story of the German girl it happened to around the same time included her talking about a Spanish lad in the cell with her for the same thing.

Not saying it wasn’t reported on in Spain but I didn’t see his case anywhere in the news.

It did happen to an Irish girl too last month. Fortunately we’ve fairly decent relations with the US but unfortunately it didn’t sound like her treatment was any better than this tbh.

I’m here. The west bitched out on the ridiculous piecemeal delivery of this and that over years and years over fear of escalation.

We should have gone all in on day one and we failed Ukraine and look incredibly weak still.

I have gotten a few family members and friends to use signal as I stated to them that this is the only way to get ahold of me.

Same. It’s the default app for everyone I’m close to.

E2E with privately generated and held keys, have you published your PGP public key yet?

Exactly. You can’t stop secure encryption.

I remember in the very old days of the internet when only the US had strong encryption and thought it was some gotcha. They labeled it a weapon to prevent overseas export. Phil Zimmerman created PGP, lobbed the source into a book (protected under 1st amendment) then shipped it overseas.

If strong encryption exists and people want to use it, you’re just not going to be able to stop them.

Shameful.

Wasn’t the pipeline closed after the contract expired at the end of 2024?

China looking on with glee.

We’re in some weird timeline where we may actually see the Mexican military and the cartels cooperate. Wild.

Spent a week in the UK visiting my sister recently. There is an overwhelmingly positive amount of support on the TV there.

I get the view that they called the current shit show before the rest of us.