Most claimed “hypersonic” missiles can’t actually manoeuvre at those speeds so you can spot them at distance and work out where you need to send an interceptor missile. We saw this with Patriot batteries vs Kinzhal in Ukraine.

More like the Gestapo tbh

Those would count as services which Trump explicitly excluded from his calculation, presumably so that he could claim the US has a larger trade deficit than it actually does. Although given he basically pulled the formula out of his ass anyway I’m not sure why he bothered to fudge the numbers as well.

For a start my understanding is that China doesn’t actually export much end product pharmaceuticals, it tends to export lots of the chemical precursors. So if companies moved their production to the US they would find that a large amount of the precursors they need now have 104% tariffs applied and they can’t compete with production in countries with less insane trade policies regardless of what tariffs go on the end products…

While that is true, I do think there is an opportunity for the EU to get a real economic and diplomatic boost by strengthen ties with the traditional western allies in the Pacific now that America is torching its bridges there. Whether or not it can manage to get all member states to agree quickly enough to actually take that opportunity is a different matter though…

Euros or rmb as the new reserve currency? Place your bets now (literally if you like).

By that logic you don’t think foreign currencies are real?

Who gets to keep the nukes?

It is technically correct though and I think we should all take to calling him that 'cause you just know it would piss him off

You volunteering?

apparently that is now banned, because otherwise I might have become a scaly, for life?

I’m not seeing a denial…

It’s also worth remembering that a bunch of the electronics in the F35 were developed by BAE Systems. If we really got to the “trying to sabotage the planes sold to allies” stage, America’s F35 fleet would be fucked too.

Thank goodness there isn’t a concerning bird flu variant rattling around in dairy cows in the US right now then…

Maybe that’s why it failed

Well 250,000 is more than 250 so they’re technically correct (the best kind of correct)…

Given how much Trump allegedly wants the peace prize because Obama got one, the Nobel committee have an opportunity to do the funniest shit ever by giving Zelenskyy it over him.

No. He’s too good for their ratings.

Though I do wish Zelenskyy had pointed out the $350bn in aid lie that Trump keeps spouting.

He would need to have been able to get a word in edgeways to do that. What should happen is that media reporting on it should point out that it’s a lie but most media organizations seem too busy gargling Trump’s balls these days for that.

In fairness, in this case it’s part of a quote.

Time for the UK government to make good on all that money we spent rescuing OneWeb…