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Zachowon

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Army is utterly horrible, we actually have fewer combat ready BCTs now then we invaded Iraq with in 2003 lol. Likewise, if your support services are crippled, you're a paper tiger; all the tanks in the world don't mean shit if you can't keep them sustained with parts, fuel, and munitions.
Ahh you see.
Those vehicles are still well maintained.
By support, I mean HQ units and the like...

And all I know is there is at least 4 divisions ready in my unit chain.
 

Zachowon

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Ready on paper that is. Army is unable to scrounge together active duty elements to sustain brigade sized deployment in Iraq and has to call up National Guard units to fill it out.
It isn't scrounge them up.

It allows to keep forces without keeping the same units on rotation constantly. Even then it still did, but it allow for troops that would not have much experience to get the experience.

Because leveraging one if the 4 armies we have is perfectly reasonable.
 

gral

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Brazil meat told to GTFO.
Business as usual. China(and other countries as well, but China does it a lot) blocks food shipments every once in a while on 'sanitary' concerns. Usually, it's a bargaining tool to lower the price, or to earn other concessions(don't know which one would be the case here - the Brazilian government is readying an auction for the implementation of mobile 5G technology in Brazil, it seems it will happen before the end of the year).

Still, shit like this is why I would love it if the agroexport industry told the Chinese 'fuck you'.
 

VicSage

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I'd enjoy them being in an economic guerilla war, with the food companies targeting Chinese fishing. They have a tendency to send their fishing vessels into other nations EEZ anyways.
 

PsihoKekec

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It allows to keep forces without keeping the same units on rotation constantly.
US Army is supposed to have 39 combat brigades/regiments, so at the current level of commitment, even with 6 months deployments, army should be able to maintain the force there without NG callups indefinitely, without any service member going to the sandbox more than twice. Of course that would require a modicum of competence from the leadership.
 

Zachowon

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US Army is supposed to have 39 combat brigades/regiments, so at the current level of commitment, even with 6 months deployments, army should be able to maintain the force there without NG callups indefinitely, without any service member going to the sandbox more than twice. Of course that would require a modicum of competence from the leadership.
It also depends on the units, mission goals, etc.
Because you won't send an armored unit to A-stan, or even Iraq really anymore.
So you take out at least 4 separate divisions.

You have to account what BCTs specialize in what
 

DarthOne

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Blacklisted Chinese tech giant Huawei paid Tony Podesta $500,000 to lobby the White House


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  • Huawei, the Chinese tech giant that is on a U.S. trade blacklist, paid veteran Democratic lobbyist and donor Tony Podesta $500,000 to lobby the White House during the July-September quarter.
  • The disclosure comes as the Biden administration is facing pressure to keep Huawei on the blacklist, which restricts the company’s access to semiconductors.
  • The White House on Thursday criticized Huawei and said the company is still subject to trade restrictions.


Huawei, the Chinese tech giant that is on a U.S. trade blacklist, paid veteran Democratic lobbyist and donor Tony Podesta $500,000 to lobby the White House during the third quarter.

The disclosure comes as the Biden administration is facing pressure to keep Huawei on the blacklist, which restricts the company’s access to semiconductors. The lobbying took place between July and September.

The specifics of Podesta’s lobbying campaign for Huawei were not clear. Podesta and Huawei did not return requests for comment before publication.

The White House, in a response Thursday, criticized Huawei and said the company is still subject to trade restrictions.
“President Biden and this administration believe digital infrastructure equipment made by untrustworthy vendors, like Huawei, pose a threat to the security of the U.S., our allies, and our partners. Export controls against Huawei remain in place,” a White House official said, when asked about Podesta’s lobbying.

“We are committed to using the full range of our tools to keep us and our allies secure,” the official added. “We are engaging with all of our partners and allies on the risks posed by Huawei and dozens of countries and carriers have made the decision to exclude Huawei from their 5G networks. And we expect this trend to continue.”


Huawei’s hiring of Podesta was previously reported, but the disclosure sheds new light on the longtime lobbyist’s dealings, including his hefty fee.

Podesta, who is known to have ties in the White House, registered to lobby for Huawei in July, according to a registration form. It marked his return to lobbying after he left the business in 2017 as his firm came under heavy scrutiny in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.

Podesta, according to the third quarter disclosure, targeted only the White House Office for Huawei last quarter. The disclosure form says it was for “issues related to telecommunication services and impacted trade issues.” The White House Office is run by the president’s chief of staff, who, in this case, is Ron Klain, another veteran Democratic power player.

A source familiar with the Podesta’s lobbying efforts for Huawei told CNBC that Klain was not contacted. This person declined to be identified in order to discuss a private matter.

For years, Huawei has sought to curry favor with American officials as it faces accusations that it is a threat to American national security. China’s government is known to exert a great deal of influence over the nation’s companies, although Huawei has denied that it would give data to Beijing.

Then-President Donald Trump put Huawei on a trade blacklist in 2019. His administration followed with other restrictions.
In 2019, Huawei spent over $2 million on lobbying, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. That time, they targeted the White House and the Department of Commerce, among other agencies.

The company spent $470,000 last year on lobbying and so far this year has invested over $1 million in the influence game.
Republican lawmakers have been pressuring the Biden administration at large to keep Huawei blacklisted.
Alan Estevez, Biden’s nominee to be under secretary of Commerce for industry and security, and a former Pentagon official, said at a Senate banking committee hearing last month that he saw Huawei as a national security threat. If confirmed, he said, he would keep the company on the trade blacklist unless “things change.”

The Podesta disclosure also came after federal prosecutors in New York announced in late September that Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou would be released from detention in Canada and allowed to return to China after reaching a deferred-prosecution agreement on wire-fraud charges. Meng is also the daughter of Huawei’s founder.

“This was a law enforcement matter that was entirely in the Justice Department’s hands – not a policy matter,” the White House official said. “As the Justice Department has said, they ‘reached the decision to offer a deferred prosecution agreement with Ms. Meng independently, based on the facts and the law, and an assessment of litigation risk.’”

The official then pointed to White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s recent comments on the matter and referred all other questions to the Department of Justice.

Podesta himself has been a magnet for controversy. NBC News reported in 2019 federal prosecutors ended an investigation into Tony Podesta and former Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn., in a case connected to lobbying for Ukraine and Paul Manafort without filing criminal charges.

Prior to the investigation, Podesta was a key financier for the Democratic Party. During the 2016 election, he gave five figure checks to both the campaign arms of House and Senate Democrats. He also contributed to then candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign. His brother, John Podesta, was Clinton’s campaign chairman.

Podesta was also paid another $500,000 last quarter by a Bulgarian energy company titled Protos Energy SSC. That payment came after “no lobbying issue activity,” according to the disclosure report.
 

Husky_Khan

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Apple may soon be the last US Big Tech Company operating in China.


Recently Microsoft pulled the plug on their LinkedIn service in China over onerous regulations, while Amazon pulled Audible and Yahoo their Finance app out of the country recently for similar reasons.

Apple however is still making an estimated $15 billion in sales in China (and Taiwan) off of both their hardware and apps, which are so intertwined that abandoning the latter like other US Tech companies have would impact Apple's bottom line.
 

Cherico

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Apple may soon be the last US Big Tech Company operating in China.


Recently Microsoft pulled the plug on their LinkedIn service in China over onerous regulations, while Amazon pulled Audible and Yahoo their Finance app out of the country recently for similar reasons.

Apple however is still making an estimated $15 billion in sales in China (and Taiwan) off of both their hardware and apps, which are so intertwined that abandoning the latter like other US Tech companies have would impact Apple's bottom line.
Come on china nationalize that shit don't bother with compensation just steal all of it.
 

Bacle

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John Oliver finally took on the issue of Taiwan, and more importantly, what Taiwan wants; actually took a more rational view of it, perhaps because it's not directly tied to US domestic politics.

He also got interviews with Taiwanese who say they are not scared of China, they just ignore China. Which perhaps would be the best way to handle the issue; focus on what the Taiwanese want, and ignore China's provocations and blustering.

China is used to many types of warfare and political shenannigans. It is not used to being ignored the same way it's pat in N. Korea is.

If people stop doing business with China, it makes it easier to ignore their blustering on the diplo/military stage.

Time to start treating the CCP the same way we treat the DPRK, and do no business with them while ignoring their blustering. We can sell Taiwan weapons, but we don't need to treat with and play the diplo game with the CCP. It's time to undo Nixon's mistake, and close the CCP off from the world like we have their pet Kim.
 

Zachowon

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He is one of the few that can stoll have humor and talk about things both sides can agree on.
Rare, but it happens.


John Oliver finally took on the issue of Taiwan, and more importantly, what Taiwan wants; actually took a more rational view of it, perhaps because it's not directly tied to US domestic politics.

He also got interviews with Taiwanese who say they are not scared of China, they just ignore China. Which perhaps would be the best way to handle the issue; focus on what the Taiwanese want, and ignore China's provocations and blustering.

China is used to many types of warfare and political shenannigans. It is not used to being ignored the same way it's pat in N. Korea is.

If people stop doing business with China, it makes it easier to ignore their blustering on the diplo/military stage.

Time to start treating the CCP the same way we treat the DPRK, and do no business with them while ignoring their blustering. We can sell Taiwan weapons, but we don't need to treat with and play the diplo game with the CCP. It's time to undo Nixon's mistake, and close the CCP off from the world like we have their pet Kim.

I do agree with this
 

Husky_Khan

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The FBI and DHS raided the Florida offices of the Chinese owned PAX Technology which provides point-of-sale to millions of retailers and businesses globally due to allegations that they are tied with recent cybersecurity attacks upon various US and EU organizations. This ongoing investigation was done in coordination with Customs and Border Patrol as well as the Navy Criminal Investigative Service or NCIS as well as MI:5, Britains domestic intelligence service.

Some of the suspicions arose when a major US Payment Processor noticed unusual network packets originating from the company's payment terminals which were apparently 'malware droppers' used to stage cyberattacks and collect data.

 

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