Those statements are very rarely confirmed tbh

O&G really is the key decider in US foreign policy, huh?

The Palestinian Authority somehow took a more extreme position than both Hamas and the Israeli police.

The facts are that helicopters were used to indiscriminately target people in the kill zone and likely killed Israeli civilians, but the helicopters were by no means the only cause of casualties in Re’im. To claim that helicopters killed all 364 people doesn’t pass the sniff test.

Guess it’s time for Argentina to issue a new currency.

Sovereignty over monetary policy is extremely valuable and dollarization will simply trade one problem for many others.

I don’t think China really backs anyone as a matter of foreign policy.

Their position is really “if y’all don’t fuck around in our internal affairs, we won’t fuck around in yours.” What China claims to be internal affairs is rather broad, but in a historical context it’s seen as “where China was before the Century of Humiliation.” It’s somehow become a common-ground position between the CPC and KMT and stretches from the Opium Wars through the Sino-Japanese Wars and is widely recognized to end at one of two points (depending on who you ask): 1. Just prior to the CPC coming to power in 1949, or 2. Just after the Treaty of San Francisco (which invited neither the PRC or ROC) was signed in 1951.

So, does that make it primarily useful for if the hospital is looking to do surgery?

IIRC al-Shifa was still doing complicated surgeries really late into the conflict.

Weren’t they still doing surgeries at al-Shifa up until the power went out? I’d imagine that an MRI might be useful for diagnosing issues prior to surgery…

Really not sure why this runoff went so poorly for Massa tbh

Isn’t Russia just shipping everything to China and India, instead? And India is just playing the arbitrage game and reselling to Europe?

Natural gas, well-known for being a clean source of energy:

Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says

Study: Methane leaks from U.S. oil-and-gas region worse than estimates

I’m sure someone will try to tell me why increasing natural gas production is a good thing or that this is tankie propaganda in support of coal.

Ahh, makes sense. That’s so cool! Do you know what kind of priority a hospital would have if they were to ration electricity? Would an MRI machine be high on that list?

The Budapest Memorandum gave countries a ton of lenience, including to intervene “for self-defense” and only maintained territorial integrity for the existing Ukrainian state (defined as one without foreign military or economic coercion).

Russia justified their violation of the Budapest Memorandum by pointing to US intervention and funding in Euromaidan to overthrow the existing Ukrainian government as coercion which already violated the Budapest Memorandum.

Ukraine shouldn’t have signed the Budapest Memorandum as it was. It was designed by the Russians and Americans to remove a potential nuclear adversary without providing Ukraine with any actual foundational support or protection. It was a shit deal without security guarantees and with enough loopholes to, well, drive an army through. The new deal would have included security guarantees, which are as strong an enforcement of a treaty as anything.

Don’t those cryogens only boil off in significant quantities of the machine can’t get power?

Like, isn’t that the whole reason MRI machines are never turned off?

Indigenous people having rights is a rather modern concept in terms of human history.

I guess they all forgot to condemn Hamas or something. That, of course, entirely justified murdering them all.

Different people complaining, I think.

Based on other headlines, this should read “India says Israeli PM should be killed without trial for war crimes in Gaza”

Paywall. Is Israel also going to release Palestinian women and children hostages?

Took them long enough.

Tell me more about this “free speech” you have in the UK…