- German government defense spending for 2021: 46.8 * 10^9€ [0]
- German government defense spending for 2022: >=100 * 10^9€ [1]
quote from [1]: "Scholz said that the German government would allocate €100 billion earmarked for the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, in the 2022 budget. "From "From now on, more than 2% of our GDP will be invested in our defense," Scholz said.
Germany has previously been criticized for devoting less than the 2% mark on defense spending called for by NATO membership rules.
The €100 billion will be allocated into a "special fund" for the German armed forces."
1. Opaque interview process with no feedback. Recently two interviews I attended went this way; After 5-6 rounds of tech discussion, the process ended with the recruiter not responding to my email requesting an update or feedback.
2. Coding interviews where you're expected to give the "perfect" solution. I can solve problems of reasonable complexity, but apparently that's not good enough.
3. Recruiters not understanding the spirit of the requirements and rejecting my profile based on unknown factors. (I only apply to jobs in companies I know would match my experience.)
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"Attempt"? You'd be in violation of The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Act of 1956. "Just doing it" is fine as long as its not outright illegal.
Israel isn’t directly threatened by Iran having nuclear weapons either unless the leaders are willing to give up their lives and country for their goal.
The problem with populist-leveraging theocracies with bad economies is that you need a shared national boogie man. For decades, Iraq, Israel, and the US have been that for Iran.
Well, you need the boogie man if you're the dog and your goal is to keep your country under control.
But if the tail gets ideas about wagging you? And your populace demands you eliminate the boogie man threat with all means at hand, because you've spent decades inculcating hatred in them and blaming ills on the man?
Well... better the boogie man's head than yours on the chopping block.
What would prevent Russian authorities from taking action against local employees anyway? The buck stops at the government. The only options for private companies in these type of situations are: comply or exit.
I don't think it has to escalate as aggressively as you're making it out to be, and yet exiting is an option as we saw from Google's reaction to China's demands. So here we're just seeing what things they consider bad enough and my comment is that it was sad this wasn't bad enough for them to put their foot down.
For embedded and system programming roles, try applying at companies which evaluate you only on generic coding skills, and then learn on the job. Typically these companies use C, C++, or Rust for low-level software and perhaps Golang or Java for middleware. Assuming that you're familiar with one of these languages (or any other statically typed language) and concepts such as multithreading, event multiplexing API (epoll in Linux or libraries such libevent), you can start applying right away.
What exactly do you want to do with past events? At least in the west (I am a South Asian) they document it and possibly learn from it / incorporate it in studies (Germany). Would you rather have the Chinese method of whitewashing or completely censoring past (bad) events? There is pretty much no empire in history which hasn't tried to expand, coerce, or otherwise influence weak states, so going back hundreds of years is pure uselessness. Take China for example - Do you think the current generation of Chinese bother about failures of CCP during the cultural revolution or would they be happy about what the CCP has achieved in the last 30 years?
Also, learn about what happened in Afghanistan from 1975 - You'll find that it has evolved into a proxy war between many parties, but was started by an Afghan president seeking help from Soviets.
Why is it US or China? It's just two countries. There are so many other way to do things. Why do you conclude that other than US' way, the only other way is China's way?
>Also, learn about what happened in Afghanistan from 1975 - You'll find that it has evolved into a proxy war between many parties, but was started by an Afghan president seeking help from Soviets.
Good one. How does Afghan president Soviet help justify America and Pakistan creating Taliban to destabilize Afghanistan? How is it America's business? Every sovereign nation has the right to seek help from whosoever they like. It's none of America's concern. But no, that won't be. Taliban has to be created to bring down a government that dared to seek Russia's help. I am not saying then afghanistan govt was all good. I am saying that doesn't justify US/UK destabilizing Afghanistan and creating Taliban with the help of Pakistan.
I have no idea what your identity has to do with your points. So, i am just gonna ignore all that except the "South Asian" bit. It's hard for me to take anyone seriously that uses that term. South America and North America actually mean something. They are real geographical entities in the south and north. It's just plain stupidity to call India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as "South Asia". All of Arab states, Iran, Pak, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar all the way to Vietnam is South Asia.
Where did I say that any of the events in Afghanistan is justified? My point is, the reality in Afghan has many sides, and none of them look good. Blaming one party is stupid. Also America didn't "create" Taliban - again you make inaccurate points. One faction fighting the civil war eventually became the Taliban and then were supported by ISI. The US had no role after Soviet withdrawal (until 2001).
"Reconciliation, reparations and justice" - yeah ideally. But how many years will you go back? And who exactly will accept their mistakes and fix? I mentioned China, US because these are the powerful entities now, along with Russia. If these countries can't accept responsibility for the issues they created, then no other country will because its politically infeasible.
Identity doesn't relate to my points as such. But you are simply blaming the "west" for all troubles and ignoring the acts of others in these conflicts. I mentioned "South Asian" as an addendum to point out that I am not merely defending my region.
First understand the complexities involved, rather than making absurd statements such as "America created Taliban". Then argue your points.
It would be absurd to suggest that America created the people who became taliban - obviously their parents did. I doubt any of them are americans. I guess that part of obvious, and i am sorry that i didn't make it clear. What I meant was that it was US with their attack dogs in the area, ie pakistan, who gave money, training and weapons to them.
There are complexities to every situation anywhere.
I almost died laughing at your comment. You have to understand the ethnic divisions that exist in the region before arriving at opinions. Taliban (Pashtuns) don't give a damn about "others" such as Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras (in Afghanistan - read about how they slaughtered Hazaras around Bamiyan during 1996-1999 when they were in power). Do you seriously think they bother about Uighurs? Even if they do bother, China is unfortunately not stupid - they are capable of making deals with anyone if it benefits them. China also doesn't care about democracy, nation-building, and other impossible to attain goals in Afghanistan. You (and I) may dislike the authoritarian policies of CCP, but they know how to deal with religious authoritarians.
If any given area produces more people than they can handle, then it should be their problem. The dominant ideology in middle east is religious authoritarianism. If you're a liberal democracy, then its a self goal to get immigrants from there.
Well, a couple of these liberal democracies helped establishing some of the modern day religious fundamentalism in Middle East and have been part of the problem.
