The USA can certainly do this, they have all what it takes. Public investments for such stuff will be hard to get in the next four years I guess, but there could be some private initiative?I don't know the U.S. good enough in that respect, though.
The campaign of cyber and proxy attacks is intended not only to further Moscow’s usual goals of spreading division and demoralisation, but also to convey to Europeans a sense that their countries’ continued support for Ukraine is affecting their lives negatively.
It seems this is really a major reason of Putin's war. As a former U.S. army officer recently said, "The Russians know they cannot win this war unless the West quits". It's important to understand that the only solution to this war in Ukraine is a complete defeat of Russia, no Neville Chamberlain-like appeasement.
In other news, it is said that companies around the world are starting to cut prices and costs and scale back activity in China.
The interesting bit is that the Asian Times doesn't mention too many specific new German companies which allegedly have been investing in China recently. It just says things like German energy costs are higher.
[Edit for clarity.]
You can always find something in any article, but here these are red herrings (and, once again we notice, these red herrings emerge only for specific topics, working always in one and the same direction). Even RT itself says they are a propaganda channel receiving orders from the Kremlin.
Yes, this Euronews article doesn't make sense.
Northvolt says that operations to continue as usual during Chapter 11 reorganization process, with company meeting obligations to customers, vendors and employees. Voluntary reorganization facilitates access to approximately $145 million in cash collateral and $100 million debtor-in-possession financing (from Scandinavian truck maker Scania). This is not even mentioned in the article.
In a nutshell, the liquidity crisis Northvolt faces is serious, we must not downplay that, but it's far from what the article suggests for now. It's not a collapse.
Strange. Here is the Reuters news about it: https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-proposes-sanctions-against-chinese-firms-helping-russia-bloomberg-news-2024-11-25/
It's strange that people are defending Russian propaganda here ...
There is an interesting analysis by the European Media Observatory on the Romanian election -- (Archived link).
On 'TikTok's role in Romanian politics' and the 'Candidate Performance Metrics', it says, among others:
The analysis also says:
The lack of effective moderation allowed for widespread dissemination of unverified information, particularly affecting extreme-right candidates.
Concerns around unlabelled or undeclared political content in the 2024 Romanian presidential elections, particularly on TikTok are significant. They emphasize a lack of transparency in political campaigns, notably involving candidates like Călin Georgescu, who used the platform without disclosing the funding and motivations behind their promotion. The employment of influencers without adequate disclosure raises ethical issues complicates voters’ understanding of the content.
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The notable gap between projected poll figures (around 10%) and actual results (over 22%) raises concerns about potential external influences, including foreign interference.
If we didn’t just fucking kick those platforms and their CEOs into orbit then, we won’t do it now. We already lost. Our only chance is to remove English as an official language of the EU and go back to German or Spanish or French or something else that would increase the cost of mass manipulation.
What a logic. We won't ban it now because we didn't it then. But 'removing English' as 'official language of the EU' would help according to you. This is, of course, complete rubbish.
Yeah, and hats off to the judges.
This has long been done :-)
Well, Putin's and his autocratic regime's true enemy is democracy. Maybe we can call it hegemony, but we in the West must understand that Putin won't stop seeking to undermine democracy in all states of the former Eastern block (and possibly even beyond), thus it's not only about Ukraine. As long as citizens in free democratic countries elect their own leaders and set their own course, Putin will try to undermine them as he fears -and as you suggest, if I get you right- independent countries, and that may have indeed severe consequences to Russia's own politics. Putin isn't fighting NATO nor "denazification" of Ukraine, as he claims, but for an antidemocratic regime change.