Moses

You do realize that this is a comparison of the president to a crisis manager, and not a message about Trump regulating toilet paper costs?

I understand the feelings of people in Jakarta, but shouldn't the Indonesian government be concerned about its citizens? Why should a US taxpayer pay for medicine all over the world? Now you will write to me that I am defending Trump (whom I have repeatedly called an orange clown on the pages of this forum), but I must say that Trump is taking logical steps from an economic point of view - he is pulling the US out of the whirlpool of bankruptcy. Already, the cost of servicing the US national debt is greater than the cost of defense. Already, rating agencies are skeptical about the US's ability to pay off the national debt. For several years now, the US Treasury has been sounding the alarm because the money in the state treasury is running out noticeably before the end of the financial year, and the parliament is raising the debt ceiling every time. If something buries the US, it will be the national debt and the inability to service it. And the most vulnerable spot is the transition of international trade to alternative currencies. And the most vulnerable spot is the transition of international trade to alternative currencies, which was sharply stimulated by the sanctions of Joe Alzheimer and only in the last 5 years the share of the yuan in international trade has grown 4 times, and only in 2024 - two times. The yuan is already ahead of the Swiss franc and it is not long before it will overtake the British pound. The Global South's gradual abandonment of US dollar settlements, the reduction of these countries' reserves in Fed depository receipts, and the sharp increase in gold reserves are all very alarming signals. Personally, I think that Trump and Musk are saving the US economy. Well, or at least they are declaring the right direction of movement: the US is now in a situation where the country needs crisis managers. Nobody likes them, they are firing hundreds and cutting companies' spending on coffee and toilet paper, but the companies are surviving.

Well, manufacturer of metal has roots not in China, but in India. https://tracxn.com/d/legal-entities/thailand/xin-ke-yuan-steel-company-limited/__M9pvJJttj_z-SKcYFLHrHdpeJs_uCHYh-TERmD4G4sE

It can't be predicted. Especially, in that case: Thai had no idea what tensions are in Myanmar underground. And wave from epicenter has speed from 6 and up to 15 km per sec. Btw Mandalay and Bangkok only 750 km. Wave reached Bangkok form 30 up to 120 seconds. Thai seismo-sensors got signal a the same time, as wave arrived to Bangkok.

CR10EG is a part of China Railway Group, #256 of 2000 largest companies in World. https://www.forbes.com/lists/global2000/

Why it should be dangerous?

If you really need a conspiracy theory, you should think not about the fact that the documents could show a lack of materials, but about the fact that they could show something extra, like spy caches, antenna arrays, etc. In the 90s, the United States was forced to demolish a new, newly built embassy building in Moscow when it turned out that the metal reinforcement in the walls was laid in such a way that it not only strengthened the walls, but also amplified and transmitted all the radiation from phones and computers to the outside, and it was practically impossible to shield it. The building was built by a Russian company hired by the US government. Then this building was completely demolished and rebuilt by an American company.

This doesn't make sense - because unlike papers, you can't take the materials away. And no matter what papers the Chinese carry, if the materials in the ruins are unusable, as written above, then the reason is clear. And as for the papers - these are definitely conspiracy theories. The papers are made before construction, they are not diaries of "how we built it wrong". No one in their right mind would document their violations. Or do you really think that the construction manager kept records there like "today I replaced one metal with another"? If this company had double construction accounting, it was not on the construction site, but in the office, and most likely in China.

Sure, why not? I'm sure, there are a lot of such rusty iron in Ukrainian garages in the occupied territories... the rebels of the Donetsk Republic (2014-2022) probably adapted them "for business"... But, most likely, this is a fabrication by the Ukrainian Ministry of Disinformation or leftist Western propaganda, because if these were Russian army vehicles, they would have identification marks on them.

This is not important at all: when the company received a building permit, it submitted at least one complete set of documents to the permitting authority. So this is a conspiracy theory. But this is interesting, if it is true. Now question: who is supplier, because construction company for sure doesn't manufacture this metal itself. And here are 2 possibilities: they used not JIS SD50 or they used properly marked, but forged by manufacturer JIS SD50. To whom, who has no idea what is SD50 metal

Much like the US Army follows the "thou shalt not kill" commandment.

Modern models have advanced so much compared to even those that were available just a year ago that it is now possible to generate very decent images with just a 6GB video card in your computer.

ChatGPT is very weak in drawing in general (I mean public version). Tattoos, generated with graphic AI on local personal computer:

I'm just 5 weeks from Bali and have no one Balinese (Indonesian) stamp in my passport.

You may spend some days on Bali, if Indonesia is visa free for you, because they do everything paperless on the border and don't stamp passports. Just make online customs declaration within 48 (or 72?) hours before arrival.

How many buildings in EU you know from 5th century BC? Parthenon in Greece is from that time...

You are racist. And the Chinese built the Great Wall, which has been standing for thousands of years. And their Wild Goose Pagoda has survived hundreds of earthquakes. And only idiots shout at every corner about the reasons for the destruction of an unfinished building, without understanding anything about construction or earthquakes. And less than half a day after the event. Hysterical squirrels. Are you familiar with the words "load-bearing structures", "strength gain period", "core of a high-rise building"? Are you aware that unfinished buildings do not have a design strength at all? And the strength of, for example, a building with a pre-stressed core can be 100, or even 1000 times higher than that of the same building, but in an unfinished state? This is not like building houses with your grandchildren from blocks. "Expert"... From 94 tallest buildings in World 52 are constructed by Chinese, 5 from Top-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings

But they lie with equal skill. Karin lies better and more subtly - more experience and education. The main job of the press secretary is to deceive the press, declaring failures as victories, broken promises - the flexibility of politics, passing off pleasing idiots as heroes, and unpleasing heroes as idiots. The main tragedy of the press secretary is that he is obliged to repeat after the boss, the boss's boss and the main boss and never tell the truth.

No. During Assad's time in Syria was secular criminal law. Homoacts were criminalized with penalty 1-5 years. Now there will be Sharia law. And we all know what may expect gays under Sharia law.

Well, you and me don't know how many interviews are lost "behind scene" and what these people told him. That's main problem of documentary, based on interviews - author has "canvas" in the mind and then choose clips which are suitable for that canvas.

There is no proof in cherry-picked videos: if you will ask Syrians in one region, you will get some answers, and if in another region you will get opposite answer.

The use of buggies and sports cars, rather than golf carts, allows Russian troops to terrorize the enemy on its territory. Fast and maneuverable vehicles make the movement of Russian sabotage groups unnoticeable, and dispersal and arrival at the site of sabotage in small groups on small and low-visibility vehicles with increased cross-country ability does not allow the enemy to intercept them en route to the site of sabotage. Reports about golf carts and 60-70 vehicles in the modern leftist Western press are reminiscent of Joe Alzheimer's reports in the March 2022 that "Russia is torn to shreds and is on its knees, and the ruble is worth 200 rubles per dollar." Russia, of course, used tanks and armored vehicles from the reserve, dating back to Soviet times. At the beginning of the conflict, the Russian Federation had about 25 thousand mothballed T-62 and T-72 tanks. But at present, the main means of war are drones and missiles. Russia produces 5 times more drones than Ukraine and all European countries combined. 90% of them are very cheap and designed to operate at a distance of 3-30 km, i.e. at the front. Such drones are used in "swarms", in which some drones are designed to destroy manpower or equipment, some document the work of the swarm and confirm the destruction, and some are responsible for intercepting and destroying enemy drones. Another type of drone has appeared that is basically impossible to suppress by any means other than physical destruction, since they are controlled by light optical fiber. They are "conditionally free", costing less than $ 1,000 and are designed to destroy the enemy right on the front line. Their price allows spending such resources to disable enemy soldiers one by one - in trenches and shelters. Small and inconspicuous, they carry only 100-200 g of explosives. Russia manufacturing them by thousands daily. Well, the whole world started talking about the Oreshnik after its first use this winter, when a deep underground Ukrainian missile manufacturing plant in Dnepr, which had been laid down back in Soviet times, was destroyed with one salvo. These hypersonic missiles cannot be intercepted. No country in the world has any analogues at the moment. Video of Oreshnik, wait till the end - there is detonation of underground manufacturing plant. 26900.mp4

They lost hopes. At yesterday night they blew up their last shelter - Gasprom's pumping station to EU. Russia avoided shooting at this territory. That's why there was a park of Western armored vehicles there. There was. Because all vehicles are already destroyed either during the fighting or on the road to Ukraine. So now they are without armored vehicles, without shells and cartridges, without food. And without shelter. They are trying in small groups by nights, leaving everything behind, to cross ravines and fields into Ukrainian territory. But drones have night vision.