Korea, Japan and the US all produce a good number of chips as well. There are also some other fabs in other countries.

In practical terms Taiwan is basically an independent country. Legally speaking China is in a civil Taiwan basically being a faction and a decades long ceasefire. However the length of the ceasefire, Taiwan being an island and having been a Japanese colony created a weird situation. As in a real question within Taiwan, if they are Chinese or Taiwanese and also what to do about China. However there is a pretty large majority, who do not want to have the Communist government run Taiwan in any way. So the status quo remains. Also Beijing threatens to invade, if Taipei ever calls itself not the Republic of China, but only the government of Taiwan.

Ukraine is also hitting Russian oil export infrastructure like ports. Russia might get 60% more per barrel, but if the volume falls in a similar order of magnitude, then that is not helping Russia at all.

But the best way to deal with these problems, is to consume less oil. Long term, this is going to hurt Russia a lot. As in destroyed infrastructure and high prices destroying demand.

You need money to buy that and having no oil is basically a death sentence for a somewhat modern economy like that of Cuba. When the Soviet Union collapsed and that limited oil shipments to Cuba, there was a serious food shortage in the country. This was without the US actively stopping oil tankers from reaching the country.

“For the people of Solomon Islands, the key questions are economic and political within the country,” Vuving said.

And there is nothing about those position in the article. That would be way more interesting, then its position towards China, Australia and the US.

It is about the ship, which was sunk off the coast of Spain. However the supercavating torpedo thing is not really proven to my knowledge. It would be very interesting, as Ukraine does not have that technology.

The idea is to ban foreign providers. So Palantir would be included.

This is doing that. When you are not allowed to use foreign cloud providers, you have to use local ones. So they get business and are able to develop new features.

Tariffs hit small importers harder. It is a great way to remove competition.

The US actually does do that. The issue is that shipping companies do not actually want to risk the life of their crews.

I would have thought somebody would have offered a life chaning sum to some sailors for the journey. That is entirly possible since oil is above $100 barrel and a very large crude carrier can transport 2million barrels of oil or so. So even with a crew of 30, you can still pay everybody a million for the risk and make insane profit, since oil is nearly free inside the Gulf.

Every progressive would be able to answer honestly, that they are against genocide in general and therefore against both those in Gaza and Sudan. It therefore just does not work as a strike against progressives at all.

It works against Arab nationalists however. So interesting, that this triggers you.

It is just crazy how little is reported about this. There is a good chance that the most deadly current genocide is not happening in Gaza but in Sudan. The US special envoy said that over 400k have been killed by the war. That would be 4X worse then Gaza and this makes this even worse.

According to South Korean and Ukrainian officials, more than 6,000 North Koreans were killed in intense fighting.

That is only a bit lower then US losses in Iraq and Afghanistan combined…

That sort of happened. The IPCC was founded in 1988 for example. The issue is that it so far has not worked. Going smaller scale to develop some stronger treaties might help though. Especially if it includes some enforcement mechanism and punishments for countries, that do not go along. Like say carbon tairffs for example.

There is an easy fix. The host qualifies automatically. So just replace the US with Italy and we are done.

Iran and the US went to war in 1988. The US military is not that stupid, that they would not have planned to go to war against Iran since then. But that is just what capable militaries do. They make plans simulate them and then look what works and what new capabilites they need, if attacking is a good idea and so forth. Basically everybody who is capable in their jobs did call out that attacking Iran was a bad idea. That is why the US did not do it for decades.

This is getting the bribe money. Insider trading on Trump is going to be much better then under say Biden. He also makes the rich even richer and especially the oil and gas industry in the US.

If the US leaves NATO, it would be even better. Seriously that would clean up a lot. Also the US bases in Germany are legally NATO bases, so they loose their biggest bomber base doing that.

We kind of know how Trump sees international agreements. I very much doubt any such deal is actually going to last, especially with Israel really wanting to bomb Iran.

Obama was black. It was therefore obvious that his Iran deal was worse then what Trump come up with /s