Sri Lanka: stuck between a Chinese-owned and operated port and an India-owned and operated port.

Y'know, it would be great if it could be a Sri Lankan-owned and operated port... Adani Group didn't even give them a choice in that matter.

Isn't this the same video where the IDF claims to use a drone, then cuts to video of someone walking through a tunnel?

I thought the IDF statement was that they weren't sending men down the tunnels because it was too dangerous?

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.

I mean, anyone who was convinced otherwise was delusional. We've always known that methane has a substantially higher short-term impact on GHG emissions than carbon dioxide. We've also known for years now that natural gas is notorious for leaking obscene amounts of methane (even compared to coal mining per unit energy). That hasn't stopped us from tapping and consuming more gas: in fact, total US fossil fuel electricity production has increased by 40% over the plateau in the 1970s-2000s.

In the short-term, we are incredibly, incredibly fucked. Eventually, methane decays and whatnot, but that might be too little, too late.

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.

Have you tried living with the US?

The US doesn't even hide it. They tear apart Canadian industries (see: Bombardier), they rip up trade agreements (see: NAFTA), they fund right-wing extremists in Canada (see: Freedom convoy), they dump millions of dollars into "independent Canadian think tanks" (see: MLI and the Fraser Institute), they bribe Canadian officials with cushy jobs after public service (see: Stephen Harper and the IDU), and they're overall a massive contributor to the decline of Canada as an independent nation with independent policy. Oh, and they constantly push for free trade that seeks to displace Canadian corporations with American ones so that they can offshore all the profits.

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...

Low capital cost for high operating cost. Where have I seen this before?

MBFC is literally made by a single guy. Nobody really knows anything about the guy except for what he's published. The scores are basically pulled out of his ass. I'm not sure if that's exactly the paragon of free and unbiased journalism.

I mean, have you seen US-KSA relations? The US almost got KSA to normalize relations with Israel jfc