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Wayne Radinsky

The Global Firepower 2024 Military Strength Ranking. I never heard of the Global Firepower Military Strength Ranking before. They say:

"The finalized Global Firepower ranking below utilizes over 60 individual factors to determine a given nation's PowerIndex ('PwrIndx') score with categories ranging from quantity of military units and financial standing to logistical capabilities and geography."

"Our unique, in-house formula allows for smaller, more technologically-advanced, nations to compete with larger, lesser-developed powers and special modifiers, in the form of bonuses and penalties, are applied to further refine the list which is compiled annually. Color arrows (Green, Gray, and Red) indicate the year-over-year trend comparison (Up, Stable, Down)."

"For the 2024 GFP review, a total of 145 world powers are considered."

"Note: A perfect PwrIndx score is 0.0000 which is realistically unattainable in the scope of the current GFP formula; as such, the smaller the PwrIndx value, the more 'powerful' a nation's conventional fighting capability is."

Apparently with these "PwrIndx" scores, lower is better for some reason. The United States has a score of 0.0699, while Bhutan has 6.3704. According to this ranking, if Moldova (4.2311) went to war against Bhutan (6.3704), Moldova would win.

The first three countries are the US, Russia, and China, all nearly tied with scores near 0.07. Make of that what you will. Ukraine is number 18, above Germany.

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https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php

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Wayne Radinsky

"Majority of ASEAN people favor China over US, survey finds."

ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and consists of Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar/Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and Singapore.

"According to the State of Southeast Asia 2024 survey, compiled by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 50.5% of respondents opted for China and 49.5% preferred the US if ASEAN had to pick sides -- the first time Beijing edged past Washington since the annual survey started asking the question in 2020."

Countries that preferred the US: the Philippines (83.3%), Vietnam (79%), Singapore, Myanmar/Burma, and Cambodia. Countries that preferred China: Brunei, Laos (70.6%), Indonesia (73.2%), and Malaysia (75.1%).

Majority of ASEAN people favor China over US, survey finds

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Majority of ASEAN people favor China over U.S., survey finds

In a first, Beijing becomes Southeast Asia's preferred choice over Washington

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Emmanuel Florac

(5) Hanno Hauenstein on X: "Yotam Kipnis, who lost his parents on Oct. 7th, on why he protested Israelis blocking aid: “We came to demonstrate for the sake of the humanitarian cause. We also believe, first of all, that the innocent people in Gaza - including children - no-one deserves to starve to death.” https://t.co/xvsO8lWwVv" / X

#geopolitics #war #genocide #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

https://twitter.com/hahauenstein/status/1770098576074403982

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Emmanuel Florac

(5) Edward Snowden on X: "Everyone in the world needs to see this. Note that this footage permits no room for "it was a mistake," showing repeated, specifically-targeted strikes on the unarmed and even wounded. The sort of behavior the ICJ explicitly forbid in the genocide ruling against Israel." / X

You need to understand that the technical capability behind such killings is becoming increasingly easy to achieve—and increasingly automated. Soon enough, an official will drag their finger across a map, and anyone judged by a crude algorithm to have crossed that line will die.

#geopolitics #war #imperialism #Israel #Palestine #Snowden

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1770936325996155290

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Emmanuel Florac

Kim Dotcom sur X : "Listen to the UN Special Rapporteur at the Human Rights Council asking the International community to stop Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. It's past time to act. Children are dying of starvation while the rules-based order is watching and doing nothing. https://t.co/9gMUyJZXHy" / X

#geopolitics #genocide #Israel #Palestine

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1770664974773571991

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