@BillTheKid1603 This gentleman who simply wanted to conduct his business in peace and quiet without being fleeced by the galactic tax-man.
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Finallyendex
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Because it’s not a particularly good aircraft. The worst of the modern western multitrole -fighters. It’s neither capable nor cheap. It’s got short legs, a small radar, can’t carry a large weapons load without a huge range penalty and have a marginal ability to supercruise. The parts are largely US.
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@ColbyBadhwar Why is Gripen failing to get all of these sales?
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Gripen now has 19 failed bids.
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🇮🇳 India
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Colby Badhwar@ColbyBadhwar
🇺🇸🇵🇪 Gripen fails another bid Pucara reports that Peru has signed the FMS Letter of Offer & Acceptance for F-16.
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@AndrewHammel1 When Norway chose Germany as its main strategic partner for the coming decades, I immediately thought “Wir sind an einen Leichnam gefesselt.”
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1/ German economist Daniel Stelter, an actual economist who actually understands actual basic economic principles and doesn't force them through a candy-colored ideological filter (a rarity in Germany) explains why Germany's future is bleak: welt.de/wirtschaft/plu…
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@FRHoffmann1 @noclador A example of this is the utter and complete failure of the Eurodrone (MALE RPAS)
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Honestly, the reality probably is that, even with German participation in SAMP/T, the program would be in a somewhat similar place today.
Europe's original sin was the systematic disregard of ballistic missile defense, while the United States made it a key priority from the 1990s onward. That alone pretty much explains the difference in capacity and capability we are seeing today.
Let's say Germany was part of the program. The main difference would probably be that instead of Aster 30 interceptors being shipped back and forth several times between France and Italy before going to the customer, they would be shipped between three countries.
The more I learn and see about European procurement, the more I am convinced that it just fundamentally doesn't work - the very occasional exception proving the rule.
Instead of trying to make a dead horse walk, maybe European countries should just embrace the inefficiency of national and minilateral procurement and make the best of it.
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@mamboitaliano__ It’s ok. Since they are lining up there, things are quiet at equally or more beautiful spots.
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🚨 And here it is: the tragedy of our time in a single frame
This is what social media and “influencer culture” have done
The Gate of Heaven, Lake Como, Varenna, Italy 🇮🇹
A line so absurd you’d think it’s the last restroom on earth
Make it make sense
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Det er fordi det er den relative kjøpekraften sammenlignet med andre høyinntektsland som gir opplevelsen av vekst, stagnasjon eller fall. Der Norge var suverent på toppen sammen med Sveits og Luxemburg tidligere, er vi nå et mere normalt europeisk land. Vi føler oss ikke lengre rike på reise (i den grad vi har råd til å reise).
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@Fillyourpalette @epichan77 Indeed ….but when you feel you have to take the knife and the chisel to every girls face when they turn 16 it should give you pause for taught.
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そもそも日本人の感覚からするとこれがそんなに持て囃される美人っていうのがよくわからないよね。
割と平均的な白人顔に見える。
Celebz Addiction@PopCelebz
Cameron Diaz says she was hotter than Sydney Sweeney in her prime. Do you agree ? 👀
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Yet some right wingers in Norway describe our country like the USSR. Some truly don’t know how good they have it.
Informal Economy@EconomyInformal
Prosperity Index 2025 1. Norway🇳🇴 2. Denmark🇩🇰 3. Iceland🇮🇸 4. Sweden🇸🇪 5. Ireland🇮🇪 6. Switzerland🇨🇭 7. Belgium🇧🇪 8. Finland🇫🇮 9. Netherlands🇳🇱 10. Slovenia🇸🇮 11. Luxembourg🇱🇺 12. Germany🇩🇪 13. Czechia🇨🇿 14. Australia🇦🇺 15. Malta🇲🇹 16. New Zealand🇳🇿 17. Austria🇦🇹 18. Cyprus🇨🇾 19. Canada🇨🇦 20. Estonia🇪🇪 21. Singapore🇸🇬 22. Japan🇯🇵 23. Spain🇪🇸 24. France🇫🇷 25. Taiwan🇹🇼 26. UK🇬🇧 27. Slovakia🇸🇰 28. Italy🇮🇹 29. Lithuania🇱🇹 30. Korea🇰🇷 31. Latvia🇱🇻 32. Greece🇬🇷 33. Portugal🇵🇹 34. Croatia🇭🇷 35. Poland🇵🇱 36. USA🇺🇸 37. Israel🇮🇱 38. Hungary🇭🇺 39. UAE🇦🇪 40. Uruguay🇺🇾 41. Romania🇷🇴 42. Argentina🇦🇷 47. Kazakhstan🇰🇿 48. Chile🇨🇱 52. Costa Rica🇨🇷 55. Serbia🇷🇸 59. Ukraine🇺🇦 62. Russia🇷🇺 64. Thailand🇹🇭 66. Malaysia🇲🇾 68. Saudi Arabia🇸🇦 70. Türkiye🇹🇷 73. Brazil🇧🇷 75. Ecuador🇪🇨 80. Mexico🇲🇽 82. Mongolia🇲🇳 85. China🇨🇳 86. Peru🇵🇪 89. Iran🇮🇷 91. Colombia🇨🇴 93. Egypt🇪🇬 94. Venezuela🇻🇪 97. Bolivia🇧🇴 99. Paraguay🇵🇾 100. Philippines🇵🇭 102. El Salvador🇸🇻 105. Indonesia🇮🇩 111. Bangladesh🇧🇩 114. India🇮🇳 115. South Africa🇿🇦 116. Honduras🇭🇳 121. Guatemala🇬🇹 122. Pakistan🇵🇰 123. Kenya🇰🇪 132. Tanzania🇹🇿 136. Nigeria🇳🇬 141. Zimbabwe🇿🇼 145. Rwanda🇷🇼 150. Haiti🇭🇹 154. Afghanistan🇦🇫 164. South Sudan🇸🇸 @AtlanticCouncil
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Deilig å være gjeldsfri boomer og bare punge ut 23 500 kr på 4 dagers skiferie med hele familien uten å blunke.
For oss med småbarn, boliglån og eksploderende priser er det nesten umulig å starte de samme tradisjonene lenger.
Prisene har knust mulighetene for en hel generasjon.
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@DotHacker12 @golnarM @MacaesBruno People are often disappointed by the Geneva and Haag-concentrations. They are quite brutal. Military necessity trumps just about everything.
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@finalyendex @golnarM @MacaesBruno Its a war crime to destroy civilian infrastructure especially if thats how said 10,000,000 civlians get food and water
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Video received by Vahid Online shows another airstrike on the B1 bridge linking Tehran to Karaj (it was inaugurated in January as the Middle East's longest cable-stayed bridge)
Vahid Online@Vahid
ویدیوی دریافتی: 'حمله دوباره به پل B1 در عظیمیه #کرج حدود ساعت ۱۷:۳۰' پنجشنبه ۱۳ فروردین #Iran
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@BGhandehari Could the allies please clearify how the Germans were using the hundreds of bridges they bombed inside Germany.
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Could the US clarify how the Iranian regime was using this bridge to move weapons while it was still under construction and not yet open?
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
A U.S. official tells me the bridge was attacked because it was used by the Iranian armed forces to try and secretly move missiles and missile parts from Tehran to launch sites in Western Iran and for giving logistical support for Iranian military in Tehran
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@Kunio9844 @RKelanic @LadyDemosthenes @cherylbenson Im grateful that you seem to be residing in the U.S. It means I won’t have to pay for your welfare checks trough my taxes. Cut down on your benzedrine pills.
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@finalyendex @RKelanic @LadyDemosthenes @cherylbenson Nah, Nordic nations are bitchy blowhards. NOR 🇳🇴 SWE, FIN constantly claim Russia is a mortal threat. And yet somehow Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki haven't managed to recruit a rabid reincarnation of a 'División Azul' to duel it out down in D.C.'s Deep State dive bar of Donbass.
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What could possibly be the military rationale for this.
There isn’t one.
Alireza Akbari@itsalireza_akb
B1 bridge in Karaj has been hit in US-ISRAELI attacks. This bridge is reportedly the "highest bridge in West Asia."
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No you’re right. Logistics is not important at all for industrial production, the mobility of site defence units, resupply of fuel and ammunition and the reinforcement of security forces in provinces where the population is rebellious.
Please Sir lecture me further so I can learn from your wast wisdom.
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@finalyendex @golnarM @MacaesBruno logistics to where idiot.. its not like there is an invasion and they are moving units
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@BenObeseJecty That fighter is never getting produced. End of story.
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“…the current £686m deal only provides funding to the end of June.”
Absolute shambles.
I asked Keir Starmer about this in February and he wouldn’t answer. Now, two months later, with GCAP fast running out of cash and under pressure from international partners Italy and Japan, the Prime Minister stumps up just 3 months of funding.
How are we supposed to develop a 6th-Gen fighter programme with loose change?
Yet another programme (amongst many) at risk because the Government can’t fund their own Defence Investment Plan.
Ben Obese-Jecty MP@BenObeseJecty
“Will the contract for the next phase of the project be signed before the Defence Investment Plan is published?” Keir Starmer didn’t answer. GCAP is running out of money. The contract for the next phase of the project months delayed and our trilateral partners in Italy and Japan losing patience, the delay to the uncosted Defence Investment Plan is continuing to hold back our progress in rearming to meet current and emerging threats on every front.
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@finalyendex @RKelanic @LadyDemosthenes @cherylbenson Anyone who imagines that the Third Reich could've been defeated by airpower alone, without armies on the GRND is an idiot. Deutsche Wehrmacht had more men Killed in Action during Operation Barbarossa (Jun. – Dec. 1941) Vs. USSR than U.S. Army lost KIA in entire European Theater.
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@alegria_do @tony_pieta @Shayan86 @Vahid @GeoConfirmed Yes. Why do you think bridges inside Germany were bombed long before the allies entered the country?
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A strike targets the B1 Bridge, located east of the Iranian city of Karaj, which is currently under construction.
According to Iranian authorities, two people were killed in the attack.
Video: @Vahid
Location: 35.828860, 51.035826
@GeoConfirmed
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@Shayan86 @Vahid @GeoConfirmed It was open and it was a key bridge between Teheran and Karaj. What more is needed in a major war? Clearly it had military utility. End of the debate.
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@greanep @Droghedaboy @golnarM Yes clearly you must pay reparations for the civilian infrastructure you bombed in Germany, Italy and Japan during WW2
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@Droghedaboy @golnarM Those night time flights can be heard now over London. Our Westminster political elites will ignore any challenge on destroying civilian infrastructure (let alone war crimes, bombing schools etc). They'll have their excuses ready for the £multimillion judge-led inquiry in 2032.
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@SinaToossi Noted for the deep dishonesty of the post.
A educated man like yourself clearly are well aware of the fact that infrastructure and industries are hit during major wars to hinder enemy logistics and to hamper weapons production.
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This is what it looks like when a war isn’t going to plan.
Unable to stop Iran’s missile and drone fire, the U.S. is escalating by bombing more civilian infrastructure—like a major bridge linking Tehran to Karaj that millions rely on.
So much for the ludicrous claim that anything about this was to “help the Iranian people.”
This is a brutal campaign to break a country of over 90 million people.
All while Hormuz remains closed, global economic costs mount, and Iran continues striking targets across the region.
There is no strategy here. Just desperation. Trump is escalating toward more barbaric attacks and rhetoric to mask a war that is not going his way.
Farzad Seifikaran@FSeifikaran
More photos from B1 bridge in Karaj. @GeoConfirmed 35°49'50.45"N 51°02'10.55"E
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