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Some Guy TT posted:singapore has a military? Singapore has the largest military per-capita among all countries in Southeast Asia, and also had the largest military budget as of at least 2017. Their air force is the third-largest in the region behind Myanmar and Thailand, and is still more modern besides.
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Apr 25, 2023 07:14
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All we know is he definitely wasn't targeted for espionage. No siree.
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Apr 25, 2023 07:47
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Some Guy TT posted:singapore has a military? I remember getting firsthand stories about it from a former member who was instructing me in something wholly non military related in an educational setting. He was a pretty chill, relaxed Singaporean dude. Big guy. The stories were nothing interesting. Just the different lines / tiers of defence in general terms and how the ack ack guns were "basically we're hosed" levels of use. Younger me found it fascinating.
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Apr 25, 2023 07:50
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Apr 25, 2023 08:05
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that image has been going around local social media and there's a couple of caveats that I've seen raised: * the data is relatively old * this is "household income", and intergenerational wealth can skew the numbers * survivorship bias: immigration to the US tends to be driven by the middle-class, who were already relatively well-off to begin with - poorer Filipinos tend to be driven to places like the Middle East or Europe as OFWs, or as seamen
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Apr 25, 2023 08:16
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https://twitter.com/PeterCronau/status/1650480460043272192
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Apr 25, 2023 08:26
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Singapore has conscription, though its pretty tolerable because the army bases are just scattered around the city rather than being in Bearfart, North Dakota
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Apr 25, 2023 08:55
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broke: turn taiwan into china's ukraine woke: turn australia into china's ukraine
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Apr 25, 2023 09:02
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yellowcar posted:broke: turn taiwan into china's ukraine turn Ukraine into the Australia of China
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Apr 25, 2023 09:06
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i say swears online posted:huh, i totally missed that the two nepalese communist parties have lost a ton of support the last couple elections why would you let elections take place? jesus christ e: if you have two communist parties, just let them run against each other in controlled races like the bourgeoisie do with their bullshit democracy Mantis42 has issued a correction as of 09:11 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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Apr 25, 2023 09:09
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yellowcar posted:broke: turn taiwan into china's ukraine this relies on the flawed assumption that anybody in their right mind would want to have australia in the first place
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Apr 25, 2023 09:09
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Australia is a better comparison to Ukraine, because if China were to ever invade Australia, you could foreseeably have a situation where the fighting is all done by Australians, and then the US simply feeds weapons and support to Australia as a proxy like what they're doing now with Ukraine this analogy doesn't work for Taiwan, because any invasion of Taiwan both instantly kills enough American servicemen that the US would be directly involved, and also the conflict would be over so soon that there would be no real chance for a prolonged conflict where the US simply uses Taiwan as a proxy combatant
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Apr 25, 2023 09:12
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gradenko_2000 posted:Australia is a better comparison to Ukraine, because if China were to ever invade Australia, you could foreseeably have a situation where the fighting is all done by Australians, and then the US simply feeds weapons and support to Australia as a proxy I think people outside Australia dramatically over-estimate how much actual Australians want any sort of conflict with China. Sure the military might get sent off, in isolation, on US orders. It's basically a backyard militia and shouldn't take more than 1-7 days to compeltely annihilate. Then life would go on.
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Apr 25, 2023 09:14
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gradenko_2000 posted:Australia is a better comparison to Ukraine, because if China were to ever invade Australia, you could foreseeably have a situation where the fighting is all done by Australians, and then the US simply feeds weapons and support to Australia as a proxy I disagree, mainly because Russia had good reasons to invade Ukraine and China has good reasons to consider invading Taiwan but only severely brain rotten racists think china has any reason whatsoever to invade Australia
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Apr 25, 2023 09:23
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Slavvy posted:I disagree, mainly because Russia had good reasons to invade Ukraine and China has good reasons to consider invading Taiwan but only severely brain rotten racists think china has any reason whatsoever to invade Australia I mean, yeah, assuming an invasion were to happen at all, and the analogy is still broken several ways from Sunday, I'm just saying Taiwan is an even worse comparison
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Apr 25, 2023 09:25
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lol Australia would last precisely 3 days if it didn't immediately just nope tf out instead rofl but the people's protracted war, now that is different. 4 days. That's how long they could go without a flat white and tv.
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Apr 25, 2023 10:13
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Ranter posted:lol Australia would last precisely 3 days if it didn't immediately just nope tf out instead rofl While true don't tell the yanks that, they might bomb us instead. Americans? Oh we Australians are totally loyal to empire and gung ho. Totally. lmao.
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Apr 25, 2023 10:22
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Australians all ready for tomorrow, when the war began.
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Apr 25, 2023 10:48
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Orange Devil posted:Australians all ready for tomorrow, when the war began. Making teenagers suffer and work hard while the rest chill is very Australian
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Apr 25, 2023 11:18
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crepeface posted:actually, on that note, does anyone know what the deal with cheng lei is? The CGTN reporter? The podcast I follow hinted that she was working as a double spy. You know DOJ charged 34 in connection of the """Chinese outpost"""? https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-charges-defendants-china-propaganda-mps-nyc-police-station-2023-4 They are all Chinese security officers working inside China. The news doesn't even say the case charges them in absentia. And one of the podcast hosts said his name is in it too. So basically FBI/DOJ got a bunch of specific names of Chinese security officers and charged them over an nonsense case to sell it as a KPI. They said they likely got these names from an insider and the US probably will burn an informer over these names. Edit, also, let me remind you that this new arrest is connected to Japan, Cheng's arrest was obviously connected to Australia. Both of these arrests happened when China had diplomatic difficulty with Australia and Japan respectively. But during this time there has been no Chinese arrested charge with working for the US even though the Sino-US relationship is getting worse and worse. Is it possible there is almost no human intelligent working for the US inside China? stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 11:50 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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Apr 25, 2023 11:34
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stephenthinkpad posted:The CGTN reporter? The podcast I follow hinted that she was working as a double spy. Metrics! Quite a brain bug. Is there any other country the USA hasn't burned all its bridges with lately that also isn't a client nation?
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Apr 25, 2023 11:39
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Very excited to see what amazing quotes and diplomatic tragedies come out of this speech from President “a Gaffe a Day 1일 1망언”. South Korean President practises English speech for U.S. Congress address quote:He is preparing to deliver a speech in English during his address to the U.S. Congress, which he has been practicing late into the night.
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Apr 25, 2023 12:29
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Gildiss posted:Very excited to see what amazing quotes and diplomatic tragedies come out of this speech from President “a Gaffe a Day 1일 1망언”. I can't wait to see President what's is name give a speech in broken english to the USA while bearing a BLM t-shirt, origin jeans, yeezy sneakers and a dyed bright blue mowawk to really connect with the average american.
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Apr 25, 2023 12:32
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I'm pretty sure the South Korean president is not a fan of BLM he might be a Yeezy stan though!!! only very recently
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Apr 25, 2023 12:36
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm pretty sure the South Korean president is not a fan of BLM A mickey mouse t-shirt is an acceptable alternative.
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Apr 25, 2023 12:39
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stephenthinkpad posted:The CGTN reporter? The podcast I follow hinted that she was working as a double spy. yeah, I guessed she was a spy, was just curious if anything more solid came out. a bunch of US spies already got nabbed when the Chinese looked at the html of the website they were using to submit info so maybe that's why
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Apr 25, 2023 12:43
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crepeface posted:yeah, I guessed she was a spy, was just curious if anything more solid came out. JFC whatever happened to physical dead drops. If its online its compromised. Period. They need to purge anyone who thinks "technology" is the solution to humint. Classically as necessary.
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Apr 25, 2023 13:07
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drat desis stay winning
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Apr 25, 2023 13:10
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Filipino American income has growth a lot from the older survey, I think there probably have been a lot of high income job imports in the recent years.
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Apr 25, 2023 13:24
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crepeface posted:yeah, I guessed she was a spy, was just curious if anything more solid came out. There is no outcome yet because my theory is Beijing is waiting for Australia to deal spy exchange. Australia has chips they can deal too. Australia got a fake spy Wang Liqiang and run his story all overt the western news cycle to specifically gently caress up that 2020 Taiwan presidential election. This case is total bogus (just about as bogus as the 21 year old DOD leaker). If Australia want to send him back to China, they can get their own spy for a very short time served sentence. That's my guess.
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Apr 25, 2023 13:39
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drat pakistansi & bangladeshis dont even break the bachelor degree threshold, wtf
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Apr 25, 2023 13:45
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jai hind
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Apr 25, 2023 13:46
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singapore also has a pretty robust local arms industry/MIC. does anyone know if their stuff is any good?
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Apr 25, 2023 14:40
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Australia is thousands of miles of open ocean and like 5 other countries apart from China. Russia is more likely to invade Portugal or Ireland than China Australia. Even by the standards of galaxy brain poo poo white people actually believe this is far fetched. I literally don't understand why china even has formal relations with that shithole. Their economy is like a third the size of Italy who would even notice if they just disappeared tomorow
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Apr 25, 2023 14:49
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So BYD in the new Shanghai auto show launched a new large sized SUV, the U8. They presold a ton of them already. As far as I can tell, its a hybrid super Landcruiser. I don't know if its belonged in this thread, I just want to share this funny as hell U turn function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LvgXC7-0pQ&t=17s They are going to sell it under the new luxury brand. Yangwang (look up). I don't like the brand in English. Luxury brand name need to be short and roll of the tongue well, like Rolex, or Lexus. Also the grill is too "Arab rich man" for my taste. But whatever. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 15:24 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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Apr 25, 2023 15:20
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arab rich men are the pioneer for the tech of the future.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:21
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stephenthinkpad posted:Luxury brand name need to be short and roll of the tongue well, like Rolex, or Lexus. have u ever tried to pronounce lamborghini?
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Apr 25, 2023 15:26
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stephenthinkpad posted:The CGTN reporter? The podcast I follow hinted that she was working as a double spy. Didn't the CIA get its whole network rolled up twice in a very short amount of time
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Apr 25, 2023 15:27
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DancingShade posted:JFC whatever happened to physical dead drops. If its online its compromised. Period. Actually they should not do that and go all in on tech solutions. Maybe save costs by only using one phone
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Apr 25, 2023 15:31
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KomradeX posted:Actually they should not do that and go all in on tech solutions. Maybe save costs by only using one phone this most phones have dual sim support these days, they're perfect for cia
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