US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

[French Rage]

Eat a bag of dicks: https://twitter.com/KraftTea/status/1570297558727294980

[French Rage]

https://www.cityam.com/brexit-onslau...tape-knockout/

The number of UK businesses exporting goods to the EU fell 33 per cent to 18,357 in 2021, from 27,321 in 2020, according to data from HMRC.

Discussing the figures with City A.M. today. Michelle Dale, a senior manager at accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young, pointed out the fall is due to the extra red tape UK businesses must now comply with when exporting to the EU.

“Businesses are not getting enough support from the Government to navigate the post-Brexit trading minefield,” she said.

“A lot of SMEs can’t afford professional advice to cope with Brexit-related red tape. Many are likely to have decided trading with the EU is not worth the cost,” Dale added.

“Fewer UK companies exporting to the EU will result in lost opportunities for growth and expansion in Europe.”

Just wait, the freedoms joecct told us about will jump in soon!

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Thank goodness they aren't mandated by the EU to accept anymore dirty refugees! Worth it.

Just wait until more of their corporate tax base decides to pick up sticks and relocate headquarters to Dublin.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Putin can bluster all he wants. Short of breaking out the nuclear & chemical arsenal and going full Geneva violations, his corrupt two-bit military couldn't even plunge Haiti into darkness at this point.

[Jimjamesak]

Putin can bluster all he wants. Short of breaking out the nuclear & chemical arsenal and going full Geneva violations, his corrupt two-bit military couldn't even plunge Haiti into darkness at this point.

Considering the state of their conventional equipment, it’s questionable if their nuclear stuff works (though let’s not find out).

[Handyman]

Considering the state of their conventional equipment, it’s questionable if their nuclear stuff works (though let’s not find out).

Putin when he hits "The Button"

[Kepler]

Considering the state of their conventional equipment, it’s questionable if their nuclear stuff works (though let’s not find out).

I'm hoping the generals sold all the fissionable material years ago and the warheads are stuffed with Milo Minderbinder's Egyptian cotton.

[Jimjamesak]

I'm hoping the generals sold all the fissionable material years ago and the warheads are stuffed with Milo Minderbinder's Egyptian cotton.

That would be worse.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

That would be worse.

Yeah, then it's a concern over who got the goods. Terror groups, rogue regimes, black market arms dealers, nefarious lone wolf scientists, etc.

[Jimjamesak]

Yeah, then it's a concern over who got the goods. Terror groups, rogue regimes, black market arms dealers, nefarious lone wolf scientists, etc.

Yeah, at that point it’d be almost impossible to find out where it was.

[aparch]

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...ussian-torture

Known to Ukrainians by the nickname Taira, Paievska and her care of Mariupol’s wounded during the nearly seven-month Russian invasion of Ukraine received global attention after her bodycam footage was provided to the Associated Press.

“Do you know why we do this to you?” a Russian asked Paievska as he tortured her, she recounted to the commission. She told the panel her answer to him: “Because you can.”

[Kepler]

"Combat infantry and junior commanders."

Read: HIMARS fodder.

[Kepler]

If only there was something you could do.

[aparch]

Germany has seized control and nationalized Russia's Rosneft subsidiaries within the country in order to secure gasoline, diesel, and oil supplies.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/16/e...ies/index.html

[MichVandal]

Germany has seized control and nationalized Russia's Rosneft subsidiaries within the country in order to secure gasoline, diesel, and oil supplies.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/16/e...ies/index.html

Which is fine, given the billions that Russia has nationalized.