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The loan is cash they’re giving to Ukraine. The loan is then paid off with profits from the frozen assets. Ukraine does not need to pay for the loan.

serviced by profits generated by Russian assets immobilised in the West

Making it a loan serviced by the assets makes it a large upfront sum that can be paid off without diminishing the original sum, and also makes it all come in the form of easily-used cash

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To be clear, the accusation from the North is that the drones were there to drop propaganda, not bombs. The South denies it, but let’s assume it’s true for a moment. Why is that a bigger provocation than the balloons full of actual human shit that the North has been floating over the border?

The research paper documents how the team’s fabricated cell achieved a power conversion efficiency of over 25% after optimizing oxygen vacancy defects within the tin oxide layer. The cell also demonstrated superior stability compared to traditional perovskite solar cells, as it retained over 95% of its efficiency after 2,000 hours of continuous operation under rigorous test conditions.

Surely for such a common character it would be easier to make a new keyboard layout that always types the preferred apostrophe when that key is pressed?

I’m having the same issue, unfortunately

Maybe we can make a new post with the exact same link. “Mildly infuriating: this mildly infuriating article presents a login page to other users for no apparent reason”

They meant “why is it a black market good?”

Paradox’s games don’t really do storytelling in a traditional sense. They’re strategy and management games. Some of them are pretty damn good at creating stories dynamically through gameplay, or providing a frame upon which you can create your own stories, but they were never intended to be narrative experiences

Wishing them luck, given the artucle has a few seemingly-relevant voices airing concerns about the funding. That said, if they do have to look for funding elsewhere, a useful infrastructure project and an economy that is pretty large and stable seems like the ideal circumstances

Spain is in the top ten of global arms industry exports. Airbus Military is headquartered in Madrid

They spent a fifth of their sovereign wealth fund covering their budget deficit last year, I’m not sure that Russia has the capacity to scale things up

Presumably you downloaded Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC), which I still had to do to make a custom keyboard layout in 2022. Funnily enough I was also wanting to use AltGr to add diacritics to vowels, because I don’t want to have to go to the backtick key for àèìòù

For what it’s worth, making a custom layout actually is a huge pain in the arse. That’s a pretty niche use case, but there is definitely no reason for it to be as much of a hassle as it is

It is technically spoilers for Outer Wilds and also the DLC

By “bigger” here I should have more explicitly made clear that I meant in population and economic terms. A bunch of largely empty land is not that significant in regards to the international balance of power in North America.

This only leads us back to my initial question. If the point of NATO is to keep the smaller members dependent on the US, why do you think NATO is asking the smaller members to increase domestic production? If you think that any Canadian effort can only possibly be inconsequential, fine, that’s a matter of opinion, but according to you that is not necessarily the case for Europe (or at least, some European countries). So is NATO intentionally undermining its own purpose by doing this?

I ignored the part about Europe because the position of “NATO exists to keep Europe dependent on the US” is just as much at odds with the article’s opening of “NATO says it wants its members to develop national plans to bolster the capacity of their individual defence industry sectors” as it was when it was about Canada.

You said “The whole point is to make the vassals dependent on the US militarily which allows the US to control the politics of these countries.” I don’t think it’s unreasonable for me to be asking about how this relates to Canada when you said “these countries” on an article that is primarily about Canada, and you’re now saying “The point isn’t to make Canada more dependent on the US”

If NATO was disbanded tomorrow, Canada would still have to work with the fact that its neighbour is a lot bigger than it. It seems to me that even if it cannot meaningfully escape American influence altogether, at least not for so long as America has as much power as it does, there are still always degrees of independence. So how is NATO wanting an increase in Canadian domestic military production a move to make Canada more dependent on the US? Or, if in your view it makes no difference whatsoever, how is this request relevant to it at all?

If Canada were to increase domestic military production, how would that make it more dependent on the US in your view?

That seems rather at odds with the opening paragraph of the article, which is explicitly saying NATO wants Canada to have better domestic production and planning