With DeutscheBahn in Germany, it would be hard to tell the difference between external sabotage and any given Tuesday
Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
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Re: Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
#522A Russian warship fired flares at a Danish military helicopter in international waters in the Baltic sea too. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwn8mjl31p5yo
I don't get what is wrong with this ? Even the U.S. Navy ships fire warning flares at other vessels when they approach close. And the Danish military explicitly said that the helicopter was carrying out a reconnaissance flight "observing the Russian vessel". Do that to the US Navy and you will find yourself the target of a flare too.
Do you have an example for a single instance where a USN ship fired a flare directly at a neutral aircraft?
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#523Earlier quoted context omitted.
The harm is in the cost. Not the actual danger. Or are they going to pay for the damages caused due to lost productivity?
Protests are much less effective if they can just be ignored. At the very least "lost productivity" is a very abstract harm and not something that endangers human lives directly.
But its also not reasonable to let someone having grievances block the entire country. The farming industry is 1% of GDP in NL. Why do they get to hold the entire country hostage?
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#524Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's crazy how much deference is given to farmers compared to every other occupation. If the garbage men started dumping the contents of garbage bags in public places I bet they will not be given a free pass.
You can go a long while without your trash being taken away for you.. you can't go very long without food.
Without European farmers having so much political capital we could just import food from unsubsidized farmers..
Re: Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
#525Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's crazy how much deference is given to farmers compared to every other occupation. If the garbage men started dumping the contents of garbage bags in public places I bet they will not be given a free pass.
It's almost as if food security is much more important than most other jobs.
While in reality it is not. We can just import food.
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We should just build up enough nuclear deterrent to prevent Russia from attacking us. We've been dependent on the US for this but this was also by the US' own design. They didn't want many countries to have nukes. So the whole 'Europe is not doing its bit' is not really justified. We don't need more tanks and soldiers because if we go at Russia like Ukraine does, so many people will die that it doesn't matter who win…
Russia are already attacking Europe. Europe already has a nuclear deterrent.
> Europe already has a nuclear deterrent.
This is not true. UK and FR have them (probably not enough though). UK/FR definitely wouldn't retaliate if Berlin or Warsaw were to be hit by a RU nuke.