Jingye, intended to turn off the furnaces in a way that it would effectively never be possible to use them again without incurring a lot of time and extraordinary cost.
Yes, that's the sabotage I spoke of.
Forcing the import of Chinese steel wasn't something I'd considered though.
The pipeline is already shut-off. It closed at the start of this year when the contract ran out. Only Hungary was pissed off when this happened, and fuck Orban.
The only reason the US wants control is to turn it on.
Would be interested to know on what timescale that stops being true.
Tata were offered the same deal as Jingye. Tata accepted and so Port Talbot will reopen after modernisation. Jingye didn't accept and look to be trying to sabotage the plant to stop losing money.
Different circumstances.
I'd probably say it was the one realm where they could exceed their human counterparts.
I'm a French-german-dutch-viking-celt-englishman.
I get where you're coming from. It's a hard legacy to inherit, but honestly most European countries have terrible events in their past. Germany's is just the most recent.
It's sad that travelling as a German is so awkward. Americans can be ignorant jerks, so that doesn't surprise me much. Few of them know how mainstream Nazi thinking was there before they entered the war. They treat us British as occupiers that they had to kick out, rather than the ancestral home of their founding fathers. Best to brush them off.
With many other places WW2 kicked off a series of occupations that only finished with the fall of the Soviet Union. It's still raw.
I think what we need is absolution, forgiveness, a new beginning with no strings attached. A real, equal friendship between Israel and Germany. Trust.
There is no absolution. There's just time.
(Germany needs a good therapist)
You're focusing on Israel as being the answer. Israel is not the Jewish diasporas. What Israel wants is not the same thing as what the Jewish people want. What about all the Jews around the world that see Israel killing in their name and are disgusted by it? They then see Germany by Israel's side?
Ukraine, on the other hand...defending a nation against a clear aggressor. A foreign policy slam-dunk, yet it's France and the UK taking the lead.
Be a rock. Be solid. A good world citizen. Be worthy of the world's trust and then you will be trusted.
Absolutely right. Messages of the type they sent should never be on a public network whether they are encrypted or not.
This is one way that signal differs from WhatsApp e2e in groups. In WhatsApp the server replicates the message out to all clients. It can't read the message but it knows the recipient list. In Signal your phone sends the message several times, so only members of the group know who is in the group.
The EPR2 is already designed, and in service in Flamanville. Flamanville 3 took a long time because we had to rebuild our whole nuclear industry, by lack of political vision back in the 90's-00's.
Flamanville is EPR, not EPR2. Flamanville's delay is the reason for EPR2. EPR2 is not being built anywhere yet.
EPR is one of my go to examples of how long nuclear takes.
So I grant you that EDF needed to rebuild knowledge, but 12 years after they started the first plant they started HPC. They increased the timescale from 5 to 7 years construction, but are still going to be at least 6 years late and 35% over budget. On Sizewell they've added another 2 years minimum with a window up to 5 extra years over HPC....for the fifth site in the family. We should be accelerating now, right? Even in China the timescale was 9 years.
It's not just EDF. Westinghouse had similar problems with Vogtle 3 starting construction in 2009 and completing in 2023. 14 years construction again.
Can things get faster...sure, but 65% faster to get back down to 5 years. No.
I think they'd very happily sell to both sides of that conflict. I feel China would happily see Russia disappear up it's own butt. They're an annoying neighbour on all fronts.