That echoes the peace terms that Zelensky and Putin’s representatives discussed in Minsk, Antalya and Istanbul in March and April 2022. Those talks ultimately failed because the Kremlin team refused to budge on key additional demands such as limiting Ukraine’s armed forces and rewriting laws on language rights.
Well, it seems the Russians have gotten their demand of limiting Ukraine's armed forces either way. So the first one was at least in retrospect, not a bad compromise. As for the second one, what exactly are those details, would you like to elaborate, Mr. Matthews? Is the reason that you aren't elaborating that the Russians were against the reduction of minority language rights, as admitted even by an Atlantic Council article?
But in many – in fact most –important ways, Zelensky is a victor. Four fifths of Ukraine will emerge independent of Russian dominion
Independent of healthy prime aged males as well
free to rebuild itself as a prosperous European democracy
Yeah cause the "prosperous European democracies" are doing so well themselves, right? How many European leaders have an approval rating above 30%? How many are neoliberal hellhole police states, Owen?
If Ukraine is very lucky, it may find another leader of Zelensky’s strength and calibre.
With luck like this, Ukraine won't need enemies.
I love how both managing crypto and ai are lumped into one position despite them being completely different things.
Seems like trump is just throwing away the people he doesn't give a shit about like someone might gather all their trash in one place.
ver since the GFC, the average American's level of sympathy for the rich and elite has been degraded significantly. That's in fact kind of Trump's whole role in preserving bourgeois rule. Redirecting the anger of as many Americans as possible towards reactionary ends.
Well, funding so many wars is partially why the Biden admin lost the popular vote and election in the first place. Nothing too surprising here.
When this thing goes to zero, and it will, because that’s its intrinsic value
That's not exactly how the labour theory of value works. Most big crypto currencies are either tied to some currency, or require massive computational resources to produce. This means that the value of the labor embodied in the electricity and GPUs is transfered over to the crypto.
Crypto fluctuates a lot more than normal currencies does because it is way more influenced by supply and demand than normal currencies (regulated by governments) are.
There are 2 trillion dollars in Bitcoin right now lol. That’s more than the US GDP
US GDP is above 20 trillion.
Besides, the American economy will be fine. A lot of investors will loose their money, and the media will frame a crypto crash as catastrophic for America because they believe that investors are the economy.
But the average person will only be affected if a crypto crash triggers a broader recession. Though such a recession would have happened with or without crypto anyway, because periodic recessions are the normal operation of capitalist economy.
Currently Chinese companies reinvest about 5% of their profits into R&D, which is a fourth what Western firms do.
That appears to me as strikingly low. Maybe this is why Xi has made such a strong focus towards increasing innovation.
China has an enormous services sector, but only a third of that is aimed at producers. In Western countries, it’s almost half. Western countries have key advantages here—advertising, marketing, banking, insurance, international settlements.
A huge reason why that sector is so much bigger in the west is probably because of the rentier and monopoly status of insurers and bankers. And also what exactly is "international settlements"?
When you do business with Chinese factories, the difference in cost for these business services is stark. For example, the difference between using a freight forwarder in Singapore or New York or London, compared to using the one which is recommended by the Chinese factory, is thousands of dollars on a single container. And if a buyer uses a Letter of Credit issued by a US bank, instead of one in Hong Kong—the difference there is hundreds of dollars, and it takes a lot longer.
I'll be honest. I don't exactly understand what is being said here? Like the phrasing is confusing.
The government is keen to trumpet its deportation credentials with figures published on Thursday revealing 8,308 enforced and voluntary returns between July and September 2024, a 16% increase on the same period last year.
The only times western "leftists" prove themselves to not be powerless is when they are using their power to be ghouls.
American reaction summarised in 1 picture
Belarus has almost half as many maternal deaths per live birth as the country just 2 spots below. What kind of Juche Necromancy are they using?
And no, you were not "yelling about this for months", except at the tankie boogiemen. The whole of the Democrat voterbase was completely against Biden dropping out or pressuring the Democrats to adopt a left-wing program. There was negligible pushback to anything the Dems did even by the so called progressives.
Mfs seem to have forgotten that Chinese GDP PPP is already higher than the US
Nuking a place, especially a desert will create lots of glass from the heat. So "glassing" a place is slang for nuking it, or just bombing it so hard nothing remains.