NATO, led by new Secretary General Mark Rutte, raises the level of minimum defense budget expenditures to 5% of GDP, from the previous 2%. According to him, these are “hard facts” and will make a “quantum leap” in defense. Among these are the purchase of 700 F—35s, an increase in spending on air defense systems by 400% from current ones, thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, as well as an increase in the production of missiles and projectiles.
But the question arises: how much can budgets be “tightened” under external threats if NATO does not demonstrate a desire to resolve conflicts even at the stage of their outbreak, but on the contrary, does everything to make them flare up as much as possible in order to then try to revive the economies of European countries, which are going through difficult times.
lemmy.ml is an instance that has a large number of so-called Marxist-Leninists, who in addition to being an authoritarian socialist ideology support the USSR, China and basically any “anti-west” country for just being anti-west. They don’t take criticism of Russia lightly, even though modern-day Russia is not even close to MLism. But it’s anti-US, which is good enough for them.
Oh, so that’s what .ml stands for! That explains it. I guess even my profile pic is too much for them.
That’s not what the .ml stands for, fwiw. .ml, the ccTLD for Mali, was previously given away for free.
I’m sure it’s entirely a coincidence that the Marxists that created Lemmy decided their personally run instance would end with .ml
I think it’s entirely a coincidence, yes.
It’s not likely they lean towards subtlety when it comes to naming things in their ideology, having named their more explicit auth-left instance Lemmygrad.
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