Showing public solidarity has a number of advantages, and it's unlikely Russia would be unaware of such developments for long.

Announcements often encourage other countries to follow suit with additional help. Lots of countries announcing aid also helps spread the backlash from Russia around. It's easy for them to bully a handful of countries; its much harder when it's dozens of countries.

This is possibly the shittiest take I've seen in a long time.

You might as well have looked at the Troubles and gone "More Christian crap, Catholics vs Protestants maybe they'll just eliminate each other, the world would be better off."

Humans collectively don't give a shit... pass them ice cream, Tinder and an iPhone and they will happily choose human extinction. The rest is just sponsorship and advertising.

That'll never happen because India doesn't see itself as needing Western backing against China. The two countries are both nuclear armed and will never go to open war with each other. They'll experience exponential growth even without direct Western political backing. Really the only thing standing in their way is themselves, in the form of their Hindu hardliners like Modi that prioritize power and authoritarianism over economic growth. Honestly I forsee India continuing to be a growing thorn in the side of Western foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific.

Don't count on that.

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There's your problem. Orcas should be in the ocean, not in Canada.

It's not just brotherhood it's a political move.

Each vehicle comes with a secret person sized compartment for either an assassin to hide in or to hide a dead body. Truly the ideal car for someone involved in Chinese/Russian politics.

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New to warfare?

Not since Bar Kohba.

>There are sanctions covering some types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (i.e. machines that make ICs).

The US is preventing sale to China for some advanced semiconductor chips too, not just manufacturing equipment, software and plans. Nvidia even had to launch nerfed products in their AI hardware division to be able to sell them to China. Your statement is not accurate.

How many are part of this track record?

If there’s anything to learn over the past few years, it’s that crime is legal if right wingers side with you

Torah scrolls cost between $40 to $70 grand , where did the planned burner even get one? I'm assuming he's not in the habit of forking out that much money on something he plans to burn.

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Endangered due to prey depletion. Not necessarily their own numbers.

Ironic comment considering the Palestinians’ lengthy history of using ambulances for terror purposes.

Hamas Uses Hospitals and Ambulances for Military Purposes

Hamas tried to hijack ambulances during Gaza war

Israeli authorities arrested Nidal Abd al-Fatah Abdallah Nazal, a Hamas activist who worked as a UNRWA ambulance driver. During his interrogation, Nazal admitted to using his ambulance to transport "arms and messages to Hamas activists in various cities, exploiting the freedom of movement granted to him" as a UNRWA employee.

Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was intercepted at a checkpoint south of Ramallah. The ambulance was transporting not only a sick Palestinian child and his relatives, but also an explosives belt hidden under the child's stretcher. During his interrogation, the ambulance driver—Islam Jibril, a wanted Fatah Tanzim terrorist—admitted that he had intended to transport the explosives to other Fatah Tanzim operatives in Ramallah.

Wafa Idris, the female responsible for the January 2002 suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed one Israeli civilian and wounded more than 100, was a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic who used her credentials to pass through checkpoints easily on her way to carry out the attack.

Palestinian chemist, Al-Nimr agreed to help find a safe place to store the chemicals and offered to covertly transfer them to Hamas in a Palestinian ambulance.

Half their reactors are off line at the worst possible time, but criticism is unwarranted? Weak sauce dude.

Understatement of the decade.

There absolutely are devices like this, I believe the person you replied to was being sarcastic.

Oh yeah. Any leader who makes those concessions immediately makes them target number 1 of many extremists on their respective side.

Nothing was stopping them.