Rachid Achachi sur X : "https://t.co/AN9R88Jrxf" / X
https://twitter.com/Rachid_Achachi/status/1780729806717383027
#geopolitics
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.
“Israel was on the verge of launching a ground offensive on the Gaza city of #Rafah but delayed the campaign after Iran launched a massive retaliatory attack on Israel over the weekend, CNN reported on 15 April.”
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24412
#gaza #genocide #iran #geopolitics #war
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
"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%).
(3) Ukrainian Army DECIMATED Need 500,000 New Soldiers - HistoryLegends
What these red cows from Texas have to do with war and peace in the Middle East - CBS News
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
Why France is Actually Preparing for War With Russia
This documentary presentation has a lot of info in it I was not aware of, as African events do not regularly make it into the American Press.
The Current Events Have a Deep History
#WorldEvents #France #Russia #Africa #GeoPolitics #History #RussiaVsFrance #Ukraine
Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420
John Mearsheimer: What’s Behind Biden’s Blank Check Support for Israel? | Endgame #179 (Luminaries)
(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
(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.
UN Human Rights Expert Says Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza | Truthout
#geopolitics #genocide #war #Israel #Palestine #Gaza
https://truthout.org/articles/un-human-rights-expert-says-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza/
French Army Going to Ukraine Will Be a DISASTER - History Legends
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
"My concerns about the TikTok divestiture bill as a software researcher/developer."
"First, this bill isn't actually aiming to ban TikTok. It really wants to force ByteDance to sell TikTok to someone else who is not controlled by China. It does that by threatening to make it illegal to distribute the TikTok app to Americans unless ByteDance sells TikTok within 180 days of the law taking effect."
"I think what the bill is trying to say is that if ByteDance doesn't sell TikTok, US based app stores have to take down TikTok for US users and US web hosts must not host the TikTok web app for US users. Unfortunately, when I read the text, that's not actually what they have said, because the Internet is complicated and it's hard to write clear rules about it without causing unintended consequences."
"There has been previous attempts by US states, most notably in Montana, to ban TikTok that have been struck down by courts as unconstitutional, because they violate the First Amendment."
"How the bill defines 'hosting services' would seem to reach pretty far into the infrastructure of the Internet to effect its prohibitions."
"The way I read this, I think it would require Verisign to de-platform the domain 'tiktok.com' from the '.com' name servers."
"A related over-broadness concern I have is whether this bill would effect 'peering', or in other words, whether it would prohibit US Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from routing traffic to a TikTok service hosted abroad."
"US law already has the concept of the 'Specifically Designated Nationals list' (SDN list), which is a list of companies and people that US persons and businesses are prohibited from doing business with."
"Another concern I have with this bill is the open-ended nature of the ability to designate other apps as 'foreign adversary controlled applications'."
"I think this definition would cover Telegram, the very popular Russian app whose use is very significant in monitoring ransomware actors and in open-source intelligence of Russian military operations."
My concerns about the TikTok divestiture bill as a software researcher/developer.
ABC News sur X : "Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas – but he enabled its development. Four Corners asked Israeli insiders how this happened. Watch 'The Forever War' tonight on ABC iview: https://t.co/iwMbGFsgXv #4Corners https://t.co/pEfCzXRnFp" / X
Chuck Watson: "NATO in Ukraine: from Proxy to Participants” | The Great Simplification #114
#geopolitics #war #imperialism #environment #climate
Funny how all thinking people from all horizons denounce US role in the current wars, uh
