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martinwagner said:
I think you can grab a random undergrad Economics student from anywhere in Germany and (s)he'd still be a hell lot more qualified to be Germany's Economic minister than the clown thats currently in office.
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Every sane person regardless of degree of education can do a better job than her.


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Reminds of Iron Sky were the Nazis on the moon use one Ipod chip for their death star equivalent
 
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gelgoog said:
Please do not post US propaganda mouthpieces "news" like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty or Radio Free Asia in here.

That talk about using chips from dishwashers and refrigerators sounds like BS. You can easily buy second source chips from China or Vietnam for pennies on the dollar. The fact is a lot of electronics used to go to China for recycling, today they go to Vietnam, and chips get pulled out and might be re-sold. Anyone can buy these. And US sanctions won't be able to cover these second sourced chips. That quip is just a wild simplification of how second sourcing chips today works. But I have seen no evidence such second sourced chips are being used in Russian weapons systems. They either use their own Russian chips, or chips so commonly available in the gray market they cannot be sanctioned easily. That is the US's problem as they thought they could easily sanction the Russian military industry semiconductor supply and so far they failed.

Russia's MIC has been under sanctions since 2014 and this conflict changed nothing for them basically. The impact is on the civilian sector.
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This makes me have to mention one of the things mentioned in Wang Shiyi's Weibo.
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Americans really seem to think that j20 uses the Nvdia 3080ti, but I hope someone can help find the source of this information
 
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This makes me have to mention one of the things mentioned in Wang Shiyi's Weibo.
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Americans really seem to think that j20 uses the Nvdia 3080ti, but I hope someone can help find the source of this information
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Saddam's air defense missiles used chips from Play Stations. Since many in Congress think it will be a walk over like Desert Storm 2.0 why the heck not.
 
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A view of the town of Vardenis, Armenia, September 14, 2022. /CFP

At least 105 Armenian troops have been killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday.
Both countries blame each other for the latest flare-up in hostilities between the two rival countries.
Azerbaijan on Wednesday offered to return the bodies of what it said were 100 Armenian troops killed in the recent clashes. Meanwhile, Yerevan has reported 49 casualties.
 
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Not sure if this belongs to the World news thread or here, can move it if the mods prefer:

World 07:20, 15-Sep-2022


Ukrainian President Zelenskyy involved in car accident, not seriously hurt

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's car was involved in a traffic accident in Kyiv, but he is not seriously hurt, his spokesperson Serhii Nykyforov said in a Facebook post early on Thursday.
Nykyforov, who did not say when the accident occurred, said Zelenskyy's car had collided with a private vehicle.
"The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were found," he said, adding the accident would be investigated.

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US senate Foreign Relations committee approved Taiwan Policy Act with a vote of 17-5

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The Senate Foreign Relations committee on Wednesday advanced bipartisan legislation aimed at strengthening U.S. policy toward Taiwan.

The panel advanced the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022 by a vote of 17-5, coming amid rising U.S. tensions with China over Taiwan’s independence and
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about the legislation from the White House.


Following the vote, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
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(D-N.J.) told reporters that the bill “makes it very clear of our support for Taiwan in many different dimensions and defense and the international realm and economic engagement.”

“It is incredibly supportive of Taiwan at a time that Taiwan needs that support to be clear as it deals with the aggression that China has shown in a way that it’s never shown before in the 43 or so years of the Taiwan Relations Act,” he continued.

Four Democrats and one Republican voted against the bill: Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ed Markey (D- Mass.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rand Paul (R- Ky).

The bill would set aside $4.5 billion in security assistance to Taiwan over four years as well as designate Taiwan a major non-NATO ally, which would benefit the island in terms of defense, trade and security cooperation.

The measure would also support Taiwan’s participation in international organizations and multilateral trade architecture.

The bill signals rising frustration from Congress over Washington’s current policy on Taipei.


The Biden administration has indicated that it had some concerns about the bill but has largely been silent on what those concerns were. White House national security spokesman
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said Tuesday that the administration was working with members of Congress on the bill.

China views Taiwan as part of its own territory and sees the bill as an affront to the One China principle — the long-standing policy under which the U.S. acknowledges China’s position that there is “only one” Chinese government but still maintains ties with Taiwan.

Menendez said the panel adopted changes to the bill that largely affect its “symbolic” areas but not the “substantive” ones.


Among the changes, the bill will now express that Congress wants the administration to negotiate changing the name of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to the Taiwan Representative Office. The original version of the legislation directs the secretary of State to renegotiate the name.

The panel also removed a provision of the bill that would require Senate confirmation for the director of the American Institute in Taiwan.

“Those are minor compared to the provisions on the defense assistance, which is the core of the bill, and the provisions on the international forum and economic engagement,” Menendez said. “So, from my perspective, not much change from the core of the bill.”
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coolgod said:
I saw some (unknown affiliation) accounts on Twitter say that the CSTO article was vetoed. Seems like fake news imo.
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This is very suspicious. There is no veto for NATO's equivalent article 5, I tried checking CSTO's charter and although it was in Russian I couldn't find anything about a unanimous decision being required. It was similar to NATO's wording.

Each constituent state can decide what help to give, but the idea that a small country can block a big country from helping would make the treaty worthless.

I'm also sure Russia have a separate treaty with Armenia similar to what America has with some countries it has military bases in.
 
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