Protectionism only really makes sense if you’re a country without native industrial capacities and trying to industrialise. Even that is debatable.
Russia used to be a major world power with highly developed heavy industry and okay-ish light industry. A lot of that has been poorly maintained since the fall of the USSR but the factories are still there. Protectionism makes little sense here.
Ireland too :(
What is SBC?
Article says the rebels going in are Islamists. Sadly, I don’t think life will get much better in Syria and will definitely worsen in Kurdistan.
They’re calling Musk a tourist
Damn, TIL. Thank you.
And for the first time in my life, thank you Erdogan.
NATO has not changed its position, that’s the thing.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_218165.htm
https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-backs-israel-and-warns-iran-to-stay-away-gaza-hamas-netanyah/
There is a very good reason the Irish care about Neutrality. The Montrealites are not so different.
Edit: Thank you Chairman Meow for telling me about this: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/
Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.
Sibling of Bobby Drop Tables
That’s just one pun
What is the second pun?
There was an IT Crowd episode on the Manstrual Cycle
A compound in Texas run by an ultraconservative who loves guns is an American tradition
I mean, that’s how cotton is produced nowadays too, except Uyghurs are the ones doing it.
And yet they cannot survive a snail
I do, actually!
I love FreeDOS and occasionally use it, and not just for vidya.
Windoze must die! Long live DOS!
~ War cry of the ancient geek
Good on the media for using the active voice for once