While what you are saying is true, the far right has been gaining recently all over Europe. And they have been more vocal about what they want.
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Except for some reason Jerboa (the client that I use) obstinately rewrites that to use https.
Because modern air war has little if anything to do with dogfighting (planes fighting planes with guns). It is all about using missiles to hit targets. Both on the ground and in the air. And those missiles can also be fired from the ground. SAMs (surface-to-air-missile) are used to hit planes, drones, other missiles. Also MANPADs (portable shoulder fired missiles) pose a threat to aviation.
In an air superiority battle overwhelming air power is used to take out the SAM batteries. This is difficult and costly. Something neither Russia nor Ukraine are currently able to do. So both are using jets in a minimal capacity.
Recently Russia has ramped up the usage of jets to hit entrenched targets on the front line. Which has predictably resulted greater losses. And relatively meager gains.
Remember that the Express is a pro-Brexit, pro-Tory newspaper. And that their level of journalism is questionable at best.
There's a lot of crazy things in China that are related to this. Not just one child policy. There's a whole crisis of sexuality in China.
Yeah, look at the curves on that guy.
In fact the modern post-WW2 era is about as good as it gets. And that is indeed not much.
US does shit like this all the time. Guantanamo bay ring a bell? There are still people there who haven't been convicted of a crime.
Yeah, at this point they've broken so many rules of war that there aren't many left to break.
It's great that West African nations are taking care of this themselves. It is a moment of empowerment. They should take care of their own. Without interference from the outside. Neither from the West, nor Russia, nor China.
While it is a horrible tragedy. It is a preventable one.
And given the sheer amount of pilgrims (2,5 million by some estimates), it could have been a lot worse. Given that size some will die by sheer statistical probability.