Recent comments in /f/worldnews

ulmen24 t1_jed6awi wrote

I don’t need to reference Trump whatsoever to shit on Biden. He defied the advice of his military personnel and got American service members and allies killed. And now millions of women are living in abject sex slavery all because…what…Biden “Had to go through” with it?

So you’re telling me if in his final days in office Trump signed a treaty with the UK. The treaty of “on may 1st all your women are now sex slaves”, that Biden would have said “ah well gee whiz. It isn’t great but we can’t go back on our word”?

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neverbeenwrongb4 t1_jed61w1 wrote

Some of China's investment in Africa is quite exploitative, they operate plenty of dangerous mines where the workers get maimed and killed all the time.

But the 'debt trap' accusation just falls flat. The US and other Western countries make the same kinds of loans to African countries through the IMF, and they attach significantly more onerous strings than China's loans. Most humorously, while China makes loans that allow them to seize assets after a default (which is the "trap" being alleged), the IMF makes loans that require these countries to sell off their national assets as a prior condition of receiving the loan at all.

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BigHandLittleSlap t1_jed611o wrote

Cross-posting my comment on this in the /r/programming thread about the vulnerability: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/126dwym/azure_active_directory_misconfiguration_exploited/jed00xe/

TL;DR: Microsoft disables audit logging by design precisely when it is the most needed (multi-tenant Enterprise Apps).

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HerbaciousTea t1_jed5whe wrote

This person was a russia correspondent for the WSJ for years, and lives in Russia to do that work.

This was not some spy sent to infiltrate Russian military facilities.

This was a journalist writing news the exact same way they have been for the better part of a decade.

The idea that the arrest of a journalist for doing journalism is the fault of the journalist and not the authoritarian dictatorship is absurd.

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drfoxxx t1_jed5g4x wrote

Bit of a piss take.

We just had to cancel our first class flights, penthouse rooftop hotel booking and week of shopping planned, after my wife visa was denied for no reason given, or questions asked.

We're the people they want, we would have spent 100k USD easily. But are utterly unfriendly and non communicative to deal with to get the KETA.

Literally denied last night. Only method of contact is email with 72 hour response times. Waste of fucking time, I'll go somewhere else.

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OneForAllOfHumanity t1_jed4zxw wrote

There needs to be a threshold for conflict to cause a ban. Border skirmishes and internal strife are not the same as mobilizing hundreds of thousands of combatants and invading a country, bombing civilians and kidnapping children. There are valid reason for armed conflict, sometimes it's the government that's doing what it has to do, sometimes it's the rebels that are fighting an oppressive government.

I'm pretty sure that at a minimum, if your leader has been charged with war crimes, you're over that threshold...

(And yes, GW should have been charged too)

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