[Reuters] And how immigration policies could strain the safety net.
U.S. residents are aging and having fewer babies, with fertility rates at a record low and trailing what’s needed for the population to replace itself, part of a widespread global trend with deep economic consequences.
With President Donald Trump’s tough limits on immigration, and his effort to deport some immigrants already in the country, the U.S. may be heading for an era when the median age continues to drift up and the population eventually starts to fall each year. That would be a first for a country built by waves of religious, economic and political refugees from around the world. Economic stress on social safety nets may follow.
Current projections show that by around 2030, deaths will exceed births each year. Immigration, which could offset that, has become politically fraught, falling dramatically under Trump.
Should current trends hold, overall population growth is heading to zero.
But it isn’t across the population. In America, as elsewhere, birth rates have fallen much further on the left than on the right. In fact, conservatives are still comfortably above the 2.2 children replacement level. Interestingly, starting with George W. Bush, birthrates have jumped whenever a Republican is in the White House, so that’s something to look for over the next few years and beyond. The discussion thread attached to this tweet is also worth reading:
NEW: Progressives have a birth rate problem
For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids.
By ceding the topic of family and children to the right, progressives risk ushering in a more conservative world. pic.twitter.com/FmpYEsGVio
#1
By 2030, it is predicted that 45% of women aged 25-44 will be single and childless. This trend is largely due to women prioritizing their careers and personal development over traditional family responsibilities. See - AWFL
#2
/\ All of the above assisted by hormonal oral contraceptives which appear to do a great deal more than regulate cycles.
Not to be forgotten is that fact that a raising a family on one income is nearly a thing of the past. The big gov't prefers that everyone be hitched to the plough.
#3
Not to mention all the females riding the cock carousel now will be realizing this decade that their biological clock is ticking, they want a man, no man will have them after 500 miles of Mr. Right (6" at a time) and now they are alone with their cats for the remaining years of their lives.
Men will not write a check against half their stuff for your damaged goods.
#5
You want less of something, tax the hell out of it. Taxation is theft, and here that theft steals from our birthrate.
Tax rates and birth rates have an inverse relationship on a macroeconomic scale. As the overall tax burden—specifically income and consumption taxes that reduce disposable income, increases, the cost of raising children goes up, and less children are born.
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by Mikhail Kucherov
[REGNUM] Nazi collaborator and former Soviet nurse Antonina Makarova is responsible for at least 1,500 executions. "Tonka the Machine Gunner" hid her past for 30 years, lived in a quiet rural area, and became an exemplary wife and mother. Her true identity was only revealed in the late 1970s. But even under arrest, she believed that "the war would erase everything," and that she would receive no more than three years in prison.
Up until a certain point, she had a normal Soviet biography. Tonya enrolled in medical school, planned to become a doctor, and considered Anka the Machine Gunner from the film "Chapayev" as her role model.
In the summer of 1941, Antonina Makarovna Makarova, a Komsomol member and worker at the Ilyich plant in Moscow, went to the military recruitment office to ask to volunteer for the front. She claimed to be able to fire a machine gun: in the early days, female workers were sent to study military science.
But the military recruitment office noticed her incomplete medical education and assigned Antonina to work as a nurse. By the fall, she was already working in the medical battalion of the 422nd Rifle Regiment of the Western Front. The documents state: "On October 4, 1941, the unit was disbanded." In reality, almost all the soldiers and officers of the regiment perished in the "meat grinder" of the Vyazma Pocket. Nurse Makarova was one of the few survivors who managed to hide in the forests of Smolensk and Bryansk.
THE BIRTH OF AN EXECUTIONER
During a raid, she was arrested by a German patrol. Antonina managed to escape captivity with Red Army soldier Nikolai Fedchuk. Much later, during interrogations at the KGB, Makarova said: Kolya promised to take her to his homeland—but in exchange, she was to become his "field wife."
When the couple reached the village of Krasny Kolodets, it became clear that Kolya Fedchuk was married. His wife and children were here in Krasny Kolodets, and any relationship with the "PPZh" was no longer an option.
When Makarova tried to explain her transformation to investigators, she said that something inside her had broken and for a time she was on the verge of insanity.
The accounts of those who remembered her from the summer of 1941 were different: in Krasny Kolodets and the surrounding villages through which Antonina passed, the abandoned girl was initially helped, but then repeatedly driven out for debauchery. Makarova decided for herself that for a piece of bread and a roof over her head, she had to "offer herself" to a man with food and power.
She moved further and further away from the front lines and eventually reached the collaborationist Lokot Republic. There, Makarova was given shelter by a compassionate woman. But when Antonina had overstayed her welcome, the woman hinted: it was time to pay the rent. Makarova had a choice: join the partisans or find a place with the collaborators.
The second option seemed more interesting. The punitive forces serving in Bronislav Kaminsky's units had access not only to bread and potatoes, but also to chocolate and wine. At first, Antonina worked as a prostitute, but her clients discovered that Tonka also knew how to handle a gun.
Moreover, she posed as a "victim of the Bolsheviks." The auxiliary police needed personnel—so the recent "wife" of the officers herself received a uniform and a service weapon.
Nikolai Ivanin, the warden of the Lokot prison, with whom Makarova had a long-term affair, secured her protection. Thus, she became a full-time executioner at the prison for Red Army POWs in the Lokot Republic. Her salary was higher than that of a common police officer: 30 Reichsmarks.
DEATH MACHINE
"After the first execution, I felt very bad, then I got used to it, maybe I just resigned myself to it. They forced me, so I did it. I never forgot that I was executing Soviet people. Sometimes I sympathized with them, but I couldn't help, because my own life was more important," Makarova testified in court. She likely hoped for a lighter sentence.
But the testimony of those who served with her told a different story: Tonya the Machine Gunner admitted that all those executed looked alike. She was only concerned about the execution weapon: she diligently cleaned the Maxim machine gun in the guardhouse or in the courtyard.
The prisoners were held in a cramped barracks, a former stable. It held only 27 people: men, women, and children. The premises were "cleared" frequently—thirty dead were Tonka's daily quota. Sometimes she shot overtime, up to three times a day.
The KGB investigative documents cited 168 proven cases of murder (based on reconstructed passport data). Later research revealed that the number of victims was ten times higher.
"Sometimes I'd shoot, get closer, and someone would still be twitching. Then I'd shoot them in the head again. Sometimes, a few prisoners would have a piece of plywood with the word 'partisan' stenciled on their chests. Some would sing something before they died," Makarova testified during the investigation.
Every morning, Antonina inspected new batches of prisoners. Women suspected of collaborating with "Bolshevik bandits" were often brought in, and Tonka would assess whether a condemned woman's dress would fit her. She shot sparingly at the women, so as not to have to spend a lot of time mending holes in her new clothes. She often missed children—not out of pity, but because, due to their short stature, the lines often reached higher than their heads.
The bodies were thrown into a pit dug in the yard. The Kaminskys forced the residents of Lokot to remove and bury the bodies. The miraculously surviving children were hidden in carts and taken to the partisans in the forest.
In the evenings, Tonya the Machine Gunner would relieve tension in the officers' "bar," preferring to flirt with Wehrmacht officers rather than with the Kamintsy. She also did their laundry, among other things. It was precisely this debauchery that saved her from falling into the hands of SMERSH.
Tonya the machine gunner contracted syphilis,
…STDs are a common result of prostitution, on both sides. That’s why the Amsterdam authorities require regular inspections…
and her Wehrmacht protectors sent her to a rear-area hospital for treatment. She ended up there in 1943, when the retreating Germans ended the "Lokot experiment."
VETERAN FROM LEPEL
Makarova's new lover was a German cook, who helped her escape first to Ukraine and then to Poland. After his death, Antonina was sent to a factory in Königsberg. This helped her, after the Red Army arrived, pass herself off as one of those deported to Germany for work. The vetting process was hasty, so Antonina Makarova, "liberated from Nazi captivity," easily found work as a nurse in a field hospital. There, in 1945, she met Red Army soldier Viktor Ginzburg, who was recovering from a severe concussion.
Ginzburg served throughout the war, personally killing fifteen Nazis. He had a personal motive for seeking revenge on the Nazis: his entire family perished in the Polotsk ghetto.
Victor fell in love with a pretty nurse, whom he believed had suffered a similarly tragic fate. After the war, Ginzburg decided not to return to Polotsk, where everything reminded him of the death of his loved ones. The family decided to settle in the city of Lepel in the Vitebsk region.
"For the first ten years, she waited for a knock on the door. Then she got used to it and realized she could live on without worrying about anything," noted Belarusian historian Gennady Krasko. Viktor Ginzburg had distant relatives in Poland, and his wife often hinted at moving there.
By the early 1960s, Antonina Ginzburg had gained confidence: no one would suspect her, a mother of two children and the wife of a Jewish war veteran. She found a job in the sewing shop at the local industrial plant, where her husband was the boss. Ginzburg was well-regarded; her photo often appeared on the honor roll. But Antonina had her own peculiarities: she never made any friends, was withdrawn and taciturn at work, and when the shop celebrated February 23rd or March 8th, she tried not to drink—at most, a shot.
The Ginzburgs, who had survived the terrible war, were respected: they received a nice apartment, received awards on Victory Day anniversaries, and Antonina's photographs were displayed in the Lepel city museum. She herself eagerly attended courage lessons in schools, while simultaneously demanding new veteran benefits from the party and Soviet authorities.
THE MISSING CLUE
In 1976, Nikolai Ivanin, the long-hidden warden of the Lokot Republic prison, was arrested in Bryansk. During interrogation, Ivanin spoke in detail about his former lover, Antonina Makarova. She was known not only as "Tonka the Machine Gunner," but also as "Tonka the Muscovite," so, Ivanin said, "we should look for her in Moscow or the Moscow region." The thirty-year-old descriptions were sent to the KGB headquarters in Moscow. A search began for women matching the age and appearance criteria, with the maiden name Makarova—first in Moscow, and then throughout the Soviet Union.
But the investigation took a false path. Detectives relied on her birth certificate, but Makarova's surname at birth was different—Panfilova. The prime suspect turned out to be a certain Antonina Makarova from Serpukhov, near Moscow. Ivanin, as the only person who could identify the suspect, was prepared for a confrontation, but he instead committed suicide in a secure room at a Serpukhov hotel. The investigation reached a dead end.
Several months passed, and investigators identified several witnesses to Tonya the Machine Gunner's crimes. A confrontation revealed that the "Serpukhov" Makarova was not the same. The woman was cleared of suspicion. But where to find the real culprit?
A stroke of luck came to the rescue. A war veteran from Tyumen named Panfilov filled out an application to travel abroad and, according to the rules of the time, listed all his immediate family members. They all shared the name Panfilov, with one exception: Antonina Makarova-Ginzburg, who lived in the Byelorussian SSR. This became the missing link.
Knowing Ginzburg's passion for defending her "veteran's rights," she was invited to the military commissar (played by a KGB officer) to verify her details before receiving a new award. Antonina was unable to provide the numbers of the units where she supposedly served. Two witnesses were brought to Lepel, disguised as social security employees and disguised as employees, who verified Ginzburg's details for the pension recalculation. They also recognized the executioner from Lokot.
"When she was found and brought here to court, the entire neighborhood gathered. If she hadn't been guarded by the police (there were so many police here), she would have been torn to pieces, " a Lokot resident recalled.
In prison, she read with particular interest the collection "Partisans of Bryansk," which mentioned former accomplices from Kaminsky's "army." She wrote only one letter to her shocked husband, Viktor, who had appealed to every possible authority and threatened to complain to Brezhnev. The Nazi criminal considered it unnecessary to pretend to be a loving wife. Tonya the machine gunner was executed on August 11, 1979.
Then they’ll just have to kill more, faster, to get inside the training loop.
[IsraelTimes] While multiple layers of leaders in Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah have been taken out, all three have managed to press on, while broader goals behind assassinations have gone unmet
Over the past two weeks, the Israel Defense Forces has killed both the leader of Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s military wing and his replacement — the latest in a long string of assassinations aimed at senior members of Iran-backed terror groups.
They were identified as Mohammed Odeh and Izz al-Din al-Haddad, architects of the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Officials say their killings were part of broader efforts to pursue those behind the onslaught that triggered the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... But while assassinations may provide tangible achievements that leaders can brand as victories, they rarely address the underlying grievances that propel conflicts.
"The killing of military chiefs such as Odeh and Haddad points to Israel’s operational ability to reach Hamas’s military leadership," said Nasser Khdour of the nonprofit ACLED, which tracks reports of political violence and conflict worldwide. But, he added, "the killing of senior commanders is unlikely, on its own, to push Hamas toward disarmament or make it accept the complete removal of its role in Gaza’s security and governance."
AN AGE-OLD TACTIC
Israel has carried out dozens of assassinations throughout its history, but Paleostinian and Lebanese terror groups have often endured and grown even more powerful after the loss of top leaders.
Take Hezbollah, for example. An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed its then-leader Abbas Musawi in southern Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... in 1992. Under His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , his charismatic replacement, Hezbollah grew into the region’s most powerful gang and fought Israel to a bloody stalemate in 2006.
Nasrallah and nearly all of his deputies were killed in the 2024 war between Israel and Hezbollah. The Iran-backed group suffered other major losses that year, but resumed missile and drone attacks on Israel days after the start of the current war.
Hamas has lost one leader after another. Israel killed its founder and spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in a 2004 airstrike. Nearly all the architects of the group’s October 7 massacre have since been killed.
But the group remains in control of the nearly half of Gaza that the IDF doesn’t occupy and is still managing to recruit new members and maintain a tight grip on Paleostinian society, as no alternative to the terror group has been stood up.
While the US is seeking to install a technocratic Paleostinian government to replace Hamas, the plan hinges on the terror group agreeing to disarm, which it has shown little willingness to do.
So both Hamas and Hezbollah press on, fueled by the decades-old grievances stemming from the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
The United States has also resorted to assassinations against al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, taking out the late Osama bin Laden ...... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel...... in a 2011 raid in Pakistain and ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. Both groups have been vastly diminished, but only after years-long wars involving ground forces.
WHO COMES AFTER
Yossi Kuperwasser, the former head of Israel’s military intelligence research division, said in March that assassinations can be an effective tool but are not a "cure for all problems."
"These operations by themselves don’t dramatically change the ability of those organizations to cause damage and to carry out attacks," he acknowledged. "But it’s important for Israel to weaken its enemies."
In Gaza, Lebanon, and now Iran, he noted, Israel has taken out dozens of figures, reshaping the leadership structure in lasting ways.
Targeted killings were a key strategy in the early days of the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... war. Top military and political officials up to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> were killed in the war’s opening salvos. Khamenei has been replaced by his son, Mojtaba, who is seen as even less compromising.
Kuperwasser said that assassinations in Iran hadn’t transformed the theocracy but had changed it.
"Maybe there’s not ’regime change’ yet, but there is ’change in regime.’ The people are not the same people," he said.
US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... , for his part, insists that regime change has in fact taken place, citing multiple layers of Iran’s leadership that have been taken out.
And yet, the Islamic Theocratic Republic remains in power, with authority shifted to its less theocratic but more hardline Revolutionary Guard.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... the goals of the operation pertaining to curbing Iran’s ability to threaten its neighbors have gone unmet.
KILLING LEADERS CAN ALSO BACKFIRE
In past instances, assassinations have served to radicalize followers or members of political movements and terror groups, elevating more extreme successors or turning slain leaders into deaders with enduring influence.
Northeastern University political scientist Max Abrahms said data from Afghanistan, Pakistain, Israel, and the Paleostinian territories show violence against civilians spikes after assassinations.
"Leadership decapitation is risky," he said. "When you take out a leader that prefers some degree of restraint and had influence over subordinates, then there’s a very good chance that, upon that person’s death, you’re going to see even more extreme tactics."
Targeted killings can create leadership vacuums and the potential for change, but only when coupled with a coherent political strategy, said Mohanad Hage Ali, deputy director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.
"You can decapitate an organization or defeat it militarily, but if you don’t follow through politically, it doesn’t work. And it’s hard to see how this goes much further," he said.
Are y’all sure this has not had an impact on the organization?
[IsraelTimes] IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin says the military has killed “nearly a third” of Hezbollah’s forces amid the multi-front war of recent years.
“We are striking with great intensity at all times. Our troops are operating in the forward defense line area and eliminating dozens of terrorists every week,” he says in a video statement from the Northern Command.
Defrin says the IDF has killed over 2,500 Hezbollah operatives since hostilities escalated amid the war with Iran. “Hezbollah has around 30,000 terrorists, of whom we have already eliminated nearly a third of its force,” he says.
He says that recently, the IDF struck “sector commanders and operational personnel, thereby inflicting significant blows to Hezbollah’s command-and-control capabilities.”
“Hezbollah is battered and weakened and is in a survival war for its continued existence, this is the reality on the ground,” Defrin adds.
#5
Author of the article, Sam Metz, has a great big vag which is the source of his expert citations; below is the link to his Pro Iranian Times of Israel articles and great examples of his great big vag, aka what experts say:
... Targeted killings haven’t improved
... would risk US troops and may not end Iran war
... but targeting it would carry major risks
... Israel’s recognition of Somaliland brings danger
... Iran would be outgunned… but could still inflict considerable pain
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[REGNUM] Western media are in a frenzy over yet another example of so-called "free market failure." This time, the cause for mourning is a Bloomberg article about the supposedly unprecedented pressure on AI specialists in China.
According to an American news agency, Chinese authorities have effectively banned leading neural engineers from DeepSeek, Alibaba Group, and other giant companies from freely traveling abroad. This has allegedly been replaced by mandatory approval of every border crossing by state security agencies.
Moreover, according to some “informed sources,” Beijing has even compiled a separate list of “travel bans”—that is, those who will never, under any circumstances, be allowed to leave the country.
There have been no official comments on this matter from China itself yet: the Celestial Empire is sticking to its traditional strategy of information silence. But if we assume that such a decision has indeed been made, the reasons behind it are quite obvious.
As a reminder, last year, a major scandal involving the Chinese startup Butterfly Effect rocked the world. The company, founded by Wuhan native Xiao Hong, presented its breakthrough AI agent, Manus. It was billed as the world's first fully autonomous artificial intelligence capable of solving complex problems—from managing a business without human intervention to independently coding software, not to mention comprehensive big data analysis.
The success of this development was difficult to overestimate, but no one seemed to have foreseen the intentions of its creators. Towards the end of 2025, they secretly restructured their assets, quickly transferred them to Singapore, and finally announced the sale of their brainchild to Meta* Corporation for two and a half billion dollars.
Thus, a unique product of Chinese origin could have instantly become the property of the United States. However, the deal ultimately fell through. After launching a large-scale investigation, Chinese government agencies were able to prove that both the seller and the buyer had seriously violated export control laws. But the precedent itself, of course, could not help but provide food for thought for China in the future.
A separate question: how bleak is this prospect—if indeed it is bleak at all? The aforementioned liberal press gives its typical affirmative answer: at this rate, the Chinese will lock their IT specialists in "sharashkas" and "boxes," copying the Soviet Union's Cold War-era practices. However, behind the forced sarcasm, it's easy to discern several objective nuances.
Firstly, no one in their right mind would deny that artificial intelligence is not just a struggle, but a veritable "arms race." And it's an uncompromising one, as AI is rapidly transforming from an "obedient assistant" into a fully-fledged tool for the real sector—from industrial automation to military command. Just look at Alex Karp's ubiquitous Palantir, deeply integrated into the Pentagon's defense procurement and, naturally, keen to attract top talent from abroad.
Secondly, the United States itself, while so vocally criticizing China for being too "technologically closed," is little different from China—except perhaps in its emphasis. It's enough to consider that the White House has strictly prohibited American venture capital firms from making direct investments in the Chinese AI industry through legislation.
"The Administration seeks to ensure America's security by impeding the development of key Chinese technologies that could be critical to the modernization of China's defense industry," according to a Treasury Department order issued two years ago.
Furthermore, the US Department of Justice and intelligence agencies make no secret of their ongoing surveillance of employees with Chinese roots in Silicon Valley. The methods used are well-known: promises of fabulous profits, aggressive stalking, and recruitment under threat of compromise.
All of the above inevitably creates the risk of a "brain drain," which, in turn, is fraught with the risk of losing, or at least undermining, digital sovereignty. Consequently, neuroengineers, as bearers of vital knowledge, require no less careful supervision than, say, nuclear scientists or military designers.
Does Beijing understand this? Of course, it does—just as it understands something else. Namely, the need to compensate for certain limitations with comfortable working conditions. And here, the accelerated development of relevant infrastructure comes to the fore.
In recent years, the Chinese government has made significant efforts to ensure a reliable power supply for its AI clusters. For example, in May 2026, the State Council of the Republic of China officially designated computing networks as a strategic resource—on par with electricity and water supply. Furthermore, virtually every major Chinese AI laboratory is already connected to wind farms, solar power plants, and other renewable energy sources.
Such solutions allow China, on the one hand, to make the enormous energy consumption of data centers economically tolerable. On the other, they provide staff with high-quality, failure-proof equipment and facilities that their American counterparts can only dream of.
The fact is that, due to chronic electricity shortages and the excessive strain on aging distribution networks, some of the so-called mega-computing facilities built in the US are simply idle. Meanwhile, most of those already operational, according to estimates from the Electric Power Research Institute, are operating at a maximum of 18-20%. That is, they are squeezing out at most a fifth of their design capacity.
Will Washington find a way to remedy the situation? Theoretically, it could involve reopening old nuclear power plants, something Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have repeatedly insisted on, in order to power their energy-hungry systems bypassing the national power grid. But that, as they say, is still a long way off—while in the here and now, Americans, long obsessed with the battle for minds, have clearly lost the "battle for the socket."
Russia, however, has every chance of winning. We have a perfect supply of cheap and stable electricity, and our geography is ideally suited to hosting world-class data centers. It remains to be seen that artificial intelligence, once naively considered a companion to globalization, has proven to be, quite the opposite, a driver of the brutal nationalization of personnel and infrastructure.
Which requires responsible oversight, as the illusion of "cross-border freedom" in the field of artificial intelligence is critically dangerous. The story of China's Manus AI is telling.
#2
The US arms industry doesn't want to make cheap drones, or cheap anything for that matter. They want to make multi million dollar missiles and billion dollar airplanes and trillion dollar ships.
The idea of a cheaper, larger quantity of anything is alien to them.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
