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How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by hackandthink »

throw-the-towel wrote: post #127
insane_dreamer wrote: post #122

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What actually happened to the nukes the Ukrainians had? Were they transferred to the US? Destroyed?

Those were Soviet nukes, physically located in Ukraine but not controlled by it, same as any French/US nukes stationed in Germany would not make it a nuclear state. The ones in Ukraine got moved into Russia, in exchange for Ukraine receiving money and security guarantees.

Mearsheimer was right in 1993 (nukes).

https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mears...

He was right in 2014:

https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...

And he is still right:

https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/who-caused-the-ukraine-wa...

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Post by stickfigure »

beej71 wrote: post #284
KK7NIL wrote: post #246

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The best China has is an internationally uncompetitive "7nm" fab and that's the best they'll have until they can manufacture EUV machines domestically. So the EUV blockade has absolutely been effective and the fact that the PRC is paying so many shills to convince westerners otherwise just shows how behind they are.

> that's the best they'll have until they can manufacture EUV machines domestically. And how far out is that?

So far only one company in the world has successfully accomplished it, so the answer could be "a very very long time".

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Post by Y_Y »

hardlianotion wrote: post #54
petcat wrote: post #24

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EU is in a very tough spot right now. They're getting squeezed on all sides economically by USA and China while simultaneously facing a Russian invasion on their eastern borders. The relationship with the American administration has deteriorated badly and any action seen as "retaliation", such as this policy blockade, would almost definitely result in USA withdrawing even more support for Ukraine in the war. I think,…

It’s kind of hard to see how much more support the US could withdraw from Ukraine, judging by the last article I read that gave Ukraine until Thursday to accept the latest peace deal negotiated between USA and Russia. If we are in the world you describe, EU might as well do as it wants - its downside has been capped.

Perhaps Ukraine could spare a few troops for a quick invasion of the West Bank?

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Post by Phelinofist »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #4
enlguy wrote: post #3

Only the U.S. would actually sanction someone for trying to indict a war criminal.

I don't think that's true. Lots of countries out there led by thugs. It used to be that the US stood out because it took the law seriously and believed in its ideals to do the right thing (not that it always succeeded, but it did its best). Looks like that time has passed.

I'm pretty sure no one outside of the US thought of the USA in that way, ever.

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Post by dang »

HappyPanacea wrote: post #277
dang wrote: post #149

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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. This topic is divisive and the thread has quite a few comments on the wrong side of the line, but yours stands out as particularly bad, and you've been doing it in other threads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813701 https://new…

Everything related to I/P conflict tends to draw lowly informed and heated discussion.

Yes indeed.

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Post by 11101010001100 »

op00to wrote: post #273
TrainedMonkey wrote: post #260

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I noticed that people love pointing how far AI field has advanced in a few years and extrapolate next few years. While at the same time being dismissive of Chinese semiconductor manufacturing process. In similar vein I also remember claims that TSMC Fab in Arizona can never work, and yet it does. So I don't know man, I wouldn't underestimate what a billion of enterprising people can do. Especially when paired with th…

Underestimating China seems like a really, really, really stupid thing to do.

Yes, we are doing a bad job of updating our priors.

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Post by gusfoo »

> For example, accounts with non-US banks have also been partially closed. Transactions in US dollars or via dollar conversions are forbidden to him.

So people don't think this is a new thing; when I worked in retail banking in the (very) early '90s it was made clear to us that any transaction in US dollars is subject to US regulation. The hypothetical scenario was that an Ethiopian arms dealer buys Russian product from a German dealer in Switzerland if they do it in USD it is the purview of the US to prosecute that crime.

My memory is hazy, but I don't think that when I was being taught it that it was a new thing.

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Post by breppp »

immibis wrote: post #115
breppp wrote: post #108

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> They were literally intentionally directed at civilian population. With special focus on healthcare workers no, they were directed at the militant organizations in Gaza while the civilian population was warned to evacuate in advance. the only thing you can base this on is the fact hamas intentionally does not publish its dead, all of the casualties are "civilians", and Hamas was caught either converting dead milita…

Can you explain what happened to Hind Rajab? She was the five year old girl who was the only survivor of a missile attack and managed to call emergency services, and so humanitarians called up Israel and agreed to clear a specific path where they wouldn't be shot so they could save the little girl, and they drove a van with a big red cross painted on top on that exact route, and when they got to the little girl and g…

I don't know, people are very persistent about this specific incidence. If I understand correctly this is a family that drove around tanks and were shot as something that unfortunately happens around live active war zones. Your depiction of "precise aerial bombing" is wrong

Let's say for the sake of argument the tank crew did not shoot due to fog of war but did out of malice, what would that prove except a single criminal tank crew? and no, I don't think Occam's razor points at that

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Post by pessimizer »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #133
m4rtink wrote: post #124

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Yeah, that is something I don't get. You can hear all around the Internet "we did not vote of this!" yet you don see any visible reaction to all these bad decisions lately - no protests in the streets, no real attempts to block these things, people resigning rather then implementing bad decisions. I just don't get it - unless all those ideals were just a show from the start.

> no protests in the streets The No Kings protest was estimated at 7 million people.

The "No Kings" protest had absolutely no subject or issue other than repeating Trump's name. What would it have meant for it to have been successful? What I mean by that is what could "X" be in the sentence: "If X policy had changed, the No Kings rallies would have accomplished one of their goals"?

It was just an astroturfed Democratic party rally that drummed up participation by mass text spam from Indian call centers. The turnout was positively geriatric.

Incidentally, the Democratic Party has started running into a severe issue with text spammers and fake orgs asking for donations and raking in millions, and the people doing it are people who are actually involved with the party.

Those Constant Texts Asking You to Donate to Democrats Are Scams

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mothership-strate...

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-...

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Post by breppp »

watwut wrote: post #234
breppp wrote: post #108

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> They were literally intentionally directed at civilian population. With special focus on healthcare workers no, they were directed at the militant organizations in Gaza while the civilian population was warned to evacuate in advance. the only thing you can base this on is the fact hamas intentionally does not publish its dead, all of the casualties are "civilians", and Hamas was caught either converting dead milita…

They just happened to disproportionally kill doctors, first responders and other medical workers. And hospitals. No, they were not focused at militant organization. And also foreign journalists and workers. No reason for scare quotes, their deaths are well documented. As for starwation, well documented too. Policy of not allowing food in was going on for months, Israel intentionally creating issues with distribution…

foreign journalists? how many foreign journalists were at gaza at the time? how were doctors disproportionally killed?

I am not sure your facts are aligned with reality in general

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