I read an article the other day that explains how it's reasonable that China can produce 4000 cruise missiles every week (!!!!!) and most of that process is automated. The entire US cruise missile stockpile is around 4000 missiles, and China can make a new one every week. It's always projection lol
Lured by cheaper prices in Shenzhen, Yip moved across the border into a bigger apartment in November and now has a 1.5-hour commute to work in the Central business district on Hong Kong island. The research associate at a financial firm laments the shrinking space for speech in his former home, but doesn’t believe politics should get in the way of a good life. "People may oppose the central government or have concerns about political freedom, but how does these concerns affect your everyday life? The truth is that it doesn’t,” he said.
Yeah I'm seeing this in a few places but no official source as far as I can tell. I guess we'll know soon one way or another.
Insane footage
I think that's just a typo, presumably the United States is not launching missiles from Iran, southern Lebanon, and Yemen, it probably meant to say the US expects missile launches from those places by Iran and Iran-affiliated militias.
I think it was a political move by Bibi to point to some kind of win, a show of strength, given his total failure in Gaza to win anything at all. Israel must always appear strong. Killing a senior Iranian general helps pretend it is.
It absolutely could, but it all depends on how this attack goes and how Israel responds. If Iran hits only military targets, doesn't cause a lot of deaths, that provides an off ramp for Israel to not respond and consider the matter concluded. Given Israel kind of wants this escalation, I can see them rearing to strike Iran directly to distract from their strategic failure in Gaza. Then it comes down to how much the US can restrain Israel from striking Iran.
Yeah that's what I assumed, in which case I think yes, this is the first instance of that.
We have no idea. This is how these things work, there are cascading responses that take a life of their own. Israel is currently striking Lebanon; does that trigger a response by Hezbollah? If Israel strikes Iran in retaliation, will Iran strike back again? These feedback loops start forming, and boom regional war.
Argentina invaded the Falklands. The UK's nukes are basically just American and they can't operate them without the US, but they're definitely a nuclear-armed state. So the Falklands War has to be the first unless you want to say that the Falklands weren't like UK proper.
Russians can't build anything, any semi-permanent structure still standing in Russia was built by a primordial race of Westerners that existed before the principality of Rus'. The Soviets simply used those buildings, but could only repair them thanks to the Lend-Lease program made by the Americans which granted them divine insight into how such structures worked. Since the severing of that divine light post-2014 Russia has fallen into a new dark age where everything metal turns to rust.