Honestly, the nuclear non-proliferation movement is dead and gone, and has been since February 2022 (really, since February 2014):
If Ukraine had managed to keep their hands on even a handful of nukes instead of handing them off to Russia as a result of the Budapest Memorandum, Russia would not be invading Ukraine right now, because the consequence would be “Russian cities start turning into glass”.
If the other signatories of the Budapest memorandum (the US and UK - I’m intentionally leaving Russia out for obvious reasons) had done more than effectively nothing in 2014, and had provided much more robust support - up to and including direct intervention to support Ukraine - in 2022, Russia would not be fucking around like this.
The Ukraine War has proven that nuclear weapons are the absolute final word in maintaining sovereignty, territorial integrity, and unilateral geopolitical power.
If Ukraine had any, Russia would not be able to prosecute the war without wildly disproportionate negative (nuclear) consequences from Ukraine.
If Russia didn’t have any, they would not be able to prosecute the war without proportionate negative (conventional; regime-change) internationally-driven consequences.
TL;DR: nuclear non-proliferation doesn’t work if you don’t strictly and vigorously enforce defense arrangements that are directly related to said non-proliferation.
Lawmakers have said earlier that U.S. automakers are exporting Chinese-made vehicles to the United States, a sign that current import tariffs are insufficient.
It means that U.S. automakers find it cheaper to have their vehicles made in China and then import them in the U.S., rather than make them directly in the U.S. in the first place.
This means that manufacturing in China is so cheap that even with the tariffs, it is more cost effective to go there. If your goal with the tariffs is to level the game, then this should not happen (no one would relocate like that unless there is a massive gain).
Pakistan’s army is so easy to bribe that the USA hasn’t even used the CIA to achieve their goals lol. They stratightup just let the foreign ambassador handle it because they’d do anything for an IMF loan and security for their elite famlies.
Hilarious how their #1 threat is a jailed populist and not any of the terrorism from Afghanistan or military threat from India.
NEW DELHI, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A man jumped into the lawmakers’ area of the lower house of India’s parliament on Wednesday, TV channels showed, in a major security breach on the 22nd anniversary of a deadly attack on the complex.
CNN News 18 showed a man wearing a black jacket jump from the visitors’ area into the lawmakers’ seating area, climbing over tables of lawmakers.
Two suspects were taken into custody following the security breach, the channel said citing police.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not in parliament at the time.
Gaurav Gogoi, another lawmaker, said one of the two suspects was shouting slogans.
More than a dozen people, including five gunmen were killed in an attack on India’s parliament complex in 2001, which New Delhi blames on Pakistan-based militants.
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