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>I don’t know if they should be more fearful of a school shooter or a jar of peanut butter they may be allergic to.

I don’t understand what you mean here.

Where does it say Pakistan thought China should be invited? Are you just delusional or did Pakistan’s government say that?

Read the article. China wasn’t invited.

You can’t just make up your own metric of judging whether a country is developed or developing, and decide that everyone should update their dictionary.

Pakistan is a nuclear power with a GDP per capita only a little lower than India’s. Is Pakistan a developed country?

Here, I’ll do one better. Iran. Higher GDP per capita than India, space program, possibly nuclear status soon. Are they a developed country? If not, is it just the figure of exports that matters, not the distribution of that figure?

GDP per capita is the main metric used to label a country “developing”. If you decide to ignore the most key metric, you’re choosing to be a moron.

Look at GDP per capita. Iraq has GDP per capita twice that of India. You going to call Iraq a developed country?

Yeah, I’m honestly surprised that isn’t mentioned much.

But Sweden is being blocked by Turkey too, and Turkey is taking the majority of the blame for Sweden not being in NATO yet. No one’s blocking Finland, so Hungary would be on its own.

The order is 5 years old. There’s 2 more deliveries left to go.

You’re right.

Only China and Russia refused to sign. Not India. So including India in the title would just be inaccurate.

Some countries aren’t able to just make a switch like that. For example, India’s military is made up mostly of Russian equipment and technology. The US (and India itself) is trying pretty hard to change that, and quickly, but it takes time. You can’t expect a country with two large, hostile, nuclear neighbours to give up its source of defence equipment.

Not mutual defence pact. India still hasn’t made any, and wouldn’t start with Italy. This’ll just be something like more military exercises together, or maybe working together on development of military equipment.

According to the article, the UK’s offer is an entirely new engine designed specifically for India, and India owns it, produces it, and can decide itself whether to export it. I’m not sure if the US would be willing to match that, but it’s possible.

Yeah that’s what I said.

Cede would suggest surrendering the Baltics. I believe the plan was to fight but expect to lose until the rest of the squad arrives.

How dare a bird repeatedly flap its wings??!!

The NATO plan of action is to let the baltics fall and then reclaim them over the following months. (If I remember correctly)

> Dr Lin dislocated his hip joint and fractured his pelvis after a fall caused by the bird.

>It landed on his back and startled him by repeatedly flapping its wings.

The bird is a monster!!!

F-35s definitely not going to Ukraine. And will the US really allow F-16s to be sent when they themselves said they won’t send them?

But US and UK (and possibly Germany) don’t want to send planes.

Training basically means they’re going through with sending them afterwards right?

> The 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo, which actually took place in 2021, had a global audience of approximately 3.05 billion, down from 3.2 billion five years earlier.

Just a few people.

Ah but this is since the covid pandemic.