It is a often forgotten low point in German history but during the colonization of Africa the Germans were extremely cruel. The German Empire employed a extrem scorched earth strategy against the rebelion of the maji maji people, modern day Tanzania. The rebellion was followed by a extreme famine cause by it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maji_Maji_Rebellion
They handed over their own BTC over to the government. If you have the private keys, you control the coin. If you don't, no amount of money or guns can make that coin move thanks to math and physics. However, a $5 wrench rammed repeatedly into your head may make you divulge those private keys. Strength of encryption is rarely the weakest link in any modern cryptographic system. But that wrench used on anybody who doesn't know the keys? Useless. It's pretty powerful stuff in that regard.
I guess we could all see this one coming. IIRC all three nations had been suspended after their respective military coups, so it's understandable that the dictators had little simpathy for ECOWAS
Haven't NATO forces been doing something similar recently? At least I've heard of a UK sub failing to launch a missile in a test recently.
I get it that this is saber rattling, but these tests are ideally regular so everyone - both you and your enemies - know your nukes work. I wonder if Russia's nukes work? I wonder if they are wondering that too?
Even if half of Russias nukes don't work they still have enough to destroy the entire planet 10 times over. People like Macron need a reminder why threatening a ground invasion is a bad idea.
To be honest, if France put soldiers into Ukraine, you could make the same argument the other way.
Continuing the war against Ukraine is a very bad idea since France has nukes, and they might do tactical strikes against Russian formations, so it's better to get out of France's way. France has enough nukes to destroy the planet 10 times over, or at least enough to destroy Moscow 100 times over, for sure.
Either way, people should stop killing people, Russian soldiers should stay in Russia.
I'm really wondering if accidents like this happened all the time and the press just started to highlight it more often or if Boeing planes are actually just falling apart after take off...
Both. Small issues always happened that went unreported by corporate media, but the frequency and severity increased exponentially lately. The real catalyst was the 1997 merger. McDonnell Douglas basically bought Boeing with its own money, since all the Boeing engineers that had management positions were fired or demoted and McDonnell Douglas executives moved into executives positions in Boeing. So it went from an engineer focused company to stocks are the only metric that matters company.
The reason for the issues not cropping up immediately is that airlines still used older places, since manufacturing a new plane takes a long time. And then different variants gets built and verified over time. Boeing MAX lineup, is the first real lineup that was built without old engineers and their focus on safety.
I think there are plenty of areas where the EU says one thing and does another, but in this case they purely object to a death penalty, which is the universal EU stance.
And the western world could learn a thing or two about what punishments for financial crimes should be. Instead of a slap on the wrist and a fine, it will make others stop and think before doing the same again in Vietnam.
I'm firmly against the death penalty and I hope that the appeal court overturns it and makes it life without parole, but when I see proper punishment for those that ruin millions of lives by stealing money, I feel envy.
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