@Coalescence @ansy1968 should know the literal definition of the word in Tagalog since both of these gentlemen are situated in that tropical island country.
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The thread is getting derailed hard but I've noticed his surname is Taro, which is an edible tuber common here in PH. So I decided to make a meme about it, sorry mods.
Weak response. Will they actually do something or what?
plawolf
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What can they do when their conventional military has just shown how they are so much weaker than everyone (Russia itself included) believed?
It is unwise to overreach when everyone knows you have a weak hand.
Indeed. Relatively to what they claimed to be, they are a paper tiger.
However, the main point stands, this is a major major strategic loss for Russia. Sweden + Finland joining NATO is bad news for it
plawolf
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Politically it’s a major loss, no doubt about that. But strategically, it doesn’t really change much. Russia was never going to try to invade and annex either Sweden or Finland, and neither are Sweden and Finland going to invade Russia, so what’s really changed on the ground?
Indonesia with a population of 280 million neighbours Australia , which has around 40% of the identified resources of uranium recoverable at low cost.
The US would want to keep Indonesia in their camp and consequently integrate the Indonesians with American military and industrial supply chains. So investing there is a nice fit with US geo-strategic objectives.
Tesla will invest in India, if and when the domestic market matures and a demand arises for their motor vehicles. Though Indonesia seems to have a higher prosperity India(about double the per capital nominal GDP of India's - $4691 to $2342 from wikipedia) ,I don't think there is huge market for Tesla cars there either