To all the morons that disregard this because it’s the daily mail, the story is reported multiple other places:
https://5pillarsuk.com/2026/02/10/woman-jailed-for-falsely-accusing-exemplary-muslim-of-raping-her-after-drunken-night-out/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38126742/mum-falsely-claimed-raped-good-samaritan/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2167138/good-samaritans-rape-hoax-hell
The explorer is a mid size car. I USA it would go as a CUV.
They don’t make reasonably sized or affordable cars anymore,
In Europe they do, and it’s still a reasonably popular brand despite Trump.
Absolutely, the Russian economy is doing very poorly disregarding exports may hold better than we thought.
You didn’t write that it was against the Ruble previously. The US dollar has definitely deflated when seen against other international currencies. So what you probably mean is that the Ruble has deflated more than the USD. But that’s irrelevant, since the export numbers are given in USD.
I think you mean deflated, as it has lost value.
https://tass.com/economy/2084701
Exports of goods from Russia decreased by $16.2 bln to $418.3 bln, while imports declined by $3.8 bln to $279 bln
That’s a trade surplus of $139 bln.
These are of course official numbers, so they may be doctored.
Why the fuck would a US congressman worry about monarchy?
I thought it was a no Kings reference, but the idiot is talking about the UK monarchy!
To which I say his opinion on that is completely irrelevant.
Being spineless is not corruption.
Very interesting article! 👍
The combination of lower oil prices and the oil price cap has done relatively little to dent Russia’s overall export earnings from selling goods to the rest of the world, which were $420 billion in 2019, $425 billion in 2023, $434 billion in 2024, and about $413 billion in 2025.
This is a huge surprise to me if true, I tried to check the numbers, and I couldn’t find anything to show them wrong, on the contrary the numbers I can find seem to confirm this?
This is very strange since we hear all sorts of Russian exports are collapsing. First and foremost oil, which is now worth half what it was 4 years ago, natural gas to EU is at most a fourth, and was considered a major source of income for Russia, but also I’ve heard coal to China has declined steeply, and of course their weapons export is almost halted as they need the weapons themselves.
Those are all major export sectors, so how can it be possible for Russia to maintain stable export numbers?
Mark Tramo:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ucla-professor-profile-removed-university-201231282.html
UCLA professor’s profile removed from university website after appearing in Epstein files
A lot of countries have stopped at least some of their dealings with Israel, especially weapons export and import.
Mind you we don’t have an official source that this is true for China, only 1 company that wants to get out of a deal in Israel.
Good thing they got rid of the Shah in 1979. It’s totally been progress ever since. /s
Sorry, Double post.
since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country,
This is not a moral standing by China, it’s 100% pragmatic deeming Israel a high risk area.
There is no reason to call China “based” or any other such crazy comments we see here.
This is not a moral standing, the basis is that Israel is deemed too risky.
And that’s just the start
No you didn’t really make a “just the start”, because your point is stupid. Every European country is doing everything they can to get independent of American weapons.
The reason we buy them now is mostly to help Ukraine, and maintain arsenals based on older agreements.
I can’t keep track of every country’s evils,
No because you are only seeing shadows in the dark.
So yeah, if it’s “fuck the USA”, it’s “fuck the EU and NATO”, too. Sorry
Absolutely not, you are just being irrational. EU actually stands for good, and respecting human rights is part of the requirements to be a member of EU. And those rights are actually upheld as law by EU. No other defense or trade alliance or union that I know of, is as observant to human rights as EU is.
Even by your own account Your accusation is nothing but guilt by association. You are just raving without even having a point.
EU deals with USA because USA used to be an ally that although a mixed bag, they generally stood for observing international law and for defending democracy.
That has changed and we can’t trust them to do that anymore. So EU has started MANY programs to achieve independence from USA, and on defense one such major program to the tune 2 trillion Euro, is the SAFE program.
Your ignorance and accusations are astounding for not knowing or understanding what EU is all about. Which is the exact opposite of what USA has become under Trump.
Nah, it’s just how it is.
The 2008 is a pumped up 208, and is absolutely a small car, bumped up a bit from a sub compact.
The CUV is not for compact, it signifies crossover which means it has driving capability like a sedan.
The CUV is a pumped up sedan, the 2008 is a pumped up sub micro.
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-2008-2023-suv-vs-volkswagen-id4-2020-suv/
The ID.4 is a medium sized car. And the explorer is actually a bit smaller.
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-2008-2023-suv-vs-volkswagen-id4-2020-suv/
The comparison between 2008 and ID.4 is not nearly as extreme here as the picture you show?
IDK if one is an American explorer and the other European?
Looks like the picture you show is from the same site?