Two people’s hands. The hand holding the pellets and the hand with the red nail varnish belong to one person (who is to the right of frame), but a second person’s hand with no nail varnish is reaching in from the left

Pretty sure you’re thinking of Marjorie Taylor Greene there, a completely unrelated person

It’s also significantly heavier with the same thrust and less wing area, and its payload is limited unless it uses external hardpoints that worsen its stealthiness.

I have read reporting on F-35s getting a 15-1 kill ratio at Red Flag 17, but it’s worth noting that the aggressor aircraft at that one were F-16s. That’s a capable plane in its own right of course, but it’s twice as old as the Typhoon and hasn’t had all of the same modernisation

Oddly enough there’s actually an interview with two pilots of the relevant aircraft who duelled during an exercise last year in which they (very briefly) discuss some of the advantages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upqVaKWQ_EU

To be fair, whether or not the F-35 is the right choice here, the Eurofighter and the F-35 are for different jobs. The Eurofighter is first and foremost for fighting other aircraft, while the F-35 sacrifices some capability in that regard to be better at blowing up stuff on the ground. That’s why the Americans have both the F-22 and the F-35. The Eurofighter is our F-22, not our F-35

I don’t doubt that the F-35 could take on most other aircraft very effectively, but a big country like Germany is spending enough and flying enough to warrant specialisation

Your whole premise was “how can we justify taking in male refugees?” If there’s a million-plus strong category of men who aren’t being drafted the why the hell shouldn’t we take them in as refugees if they need it?

The Ukrainian MoD refusing to recognise a right of conscientious objection does not mean Germany has to do the same

You could probably tell that Ukrainian soldier that you’re going to support him regardless of whether his wealthy countrymen flee or not. If you don’t want to return those that fled, what good does it do to the soldier for you to pick this fight? You’re not arguing to give him another soldier at his side.

Not every man is able to fight, Ukraine is not drafting every available man (the minimum draft age is currently 25), and conscientious objection is a right even in well-justified wars

It’s the same general principle here, yeah. Domestic law enforcement is the police’s job, the military can’t just start shooting at whatever it likes without asking

Yes (or at least I don’t personally know of anywhere that it isn’t the case), this is just a German newspaper reporting on a German professor’s work

Oh, I was thinking of it as keeping the cucumber clean

Surely if you’re going to eat it, it kinda defeats the point of having a coating in the first place? But if it stays solid I imagine it can be thrown into compost

I believe this is almost exclusively a Telegraph thing, and even then mostly in headlines. From their style guide:

“Percentages: per cent does not take a full point. Use pc only in headlines and % only in tables. In City page copy pc is acceptable.”

The same section of the style guide chooses to use hundredweights as an example unit of weight, so I definitely think there’s a significant degree to which they’ve just always done it and do not want to change it

Frankly I would be happy to take centre right over some of the people pushing the anti-migration stuff here

Don’t be ridiculous, it makes them expats

Seems like great news! Since the article doesn’t mention it, is anyone able to explain why this works? I don’t know much about this kind of stuff, but I can’t imagine any reason that radiation would help stop cartilage from breaking down

The tariff number might actually be a lot simpler and a lot stupider than that. The tariffs were calculated by literally just scaling it directly to the trade balance between the US and the other country. The US has a higher trade deficit proportional to the total value of trade with Switzerland than it does with the EU

This calculation is how some of the poorest countries in the world got hit with some of the highest tariffs. Of course the US has a huge proportional trade deficit with, say, Madagascar; Madagascar cannot afford to buy American goods

I don’t know how Finnish law works; how would they make this happen beyond their term? Like, here in the UK there’s nothing a government could do to bind the next one that had enough votes to undo it

Ukraine has gone through the process alongside Moldova up until now, but Hungary is blocking Ukraine from moving any further

I know this is actually a serious issue, but it is kind of hilarious that France managed to have a government collapse that fast

A country could be producing millions of tanks and zero cars, it still doesn’t make tanks something the general public would buy. I don’t know the truth of this cars vs tanks discussion, but this specific argument definitely doesn’t hold up

Well it is saying that it’s more dangerous than the entire Cold War