At this point, I place Israel in the same category as Russia, West Taiwan, and North Korea. They act only in their self-interest (like every other country) to an unreasonable degree. They don't have allies, just ignorant coconspirators who they will stab in the back in a heartbeat.
The reason why Audi is having low demand is because of the Audi options.
the e-Tron is shit. The interior is worse than you'd expect, and the cameras for mirrors system is the worst implementation I've ever seen. I don't actually think the idea is inherently bad, it's implemented well on the Honda e, but everybody who's tried Audi's says it's dreadful. The whole car just feels amateurish.
the e-Tron GT is a genuinely good car, and the design is lovely too. But it has a major problem - it shares the same platform as the Porsche Taycan, and only costs £1-2k less. When people are given the choice between an Audi and a Porsche for basically the same price, they'll choose the Porsche almost every single time.
And why they haven't made anything more affordable based on the MEB platform is beyond me. It's not like they don't have ICE cars that share the platforms that the likes of the Skoda Fabia and VW Golf use. It must've been a conscious choice to have their EVs be more upmarket. That's failed.
Maybe that's the time when it is time to contemplate
why we're getting so much love
from all these people
who are famous
for their ability
to incinerate
and say
Edit: this is a rant and does not address the issue, just points out Macron's shittiness.
Well, Macron openly and blatantly assisted Le Pen's far right party for the past sevent years. Idk what he's playing so shocked about.
It was Macron and his cronies who started the train of "well the far right is bad but the left is anti semitic" on which the far right happily jumped. Nevermind that Le Pen's party was actually created by an ex SS and that some of their candidates were seen having some nazi fun with friends.
A french newspaper just revealed that there have been secret dinners and meetings between people close to Macron and the far right's leadership these past month, the latest happening 3 days after the national assembly surprise dissolution.
I agree with both of your statements, I wrote my post while being pissed and frustrated about Macron's anti-left schemes. It wasmore of a rant than an actual useful answer, and I should have made it clearer.
Nevermind that Le Pen's party was actually created by an ex SS
Afaict, Jean-Marie Le Pen is the founder of FN/RN. He was born in 1928, and was trying to join Resistance in 1944:
In November 1944, aged 16, he was turned down (because of his age) by Colonel Henri de La Vaissière (then representative of the Communist Youth) when he attempted to join the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). -- source
Of course, he did beat up communists not much later when he was in uni.
The English wikipedia article is not complete about the party's foundation: Jean Marie Le Pen did found it, but not alone. Since he was the party's president for almost 40 years, he's the most known founder.
Among the co-founders were two ex-Waffen SS, Pierre Bousquet and Léon Gaultier.
See the french wikipedia article for more details.
Of course, he did beat up communists not much later when he was in uni.
And he did not stop there. During the Algerian independance war, he is believed to have tortured and supervised the torture of prisoners.
He's been condemned at least 25 times for antisemitism, inciting hatred and discrimination, minimizing/excusing war crimes and piblic outrage (not sure about my translations, these are serious offenses in the french law). For example, he stated multiple times that the nazi's crematory ovens were a detail of the ww2.
He's been riling up the country against non-white and non-hetero people for the last decades.
And he's been president of a party that's had litreral nazis and neonazis in its ranks, which he never seemed to care about.
Most of us frenchies tend to forget the outer world exists, and we're usually much more active on the french wikipedia pages than the global ones - especially for topics such as details regarding our political parties. Even in French newspapers it's often implied that JM Le Pen was the sole founder of the FN.
EVs are not the problem. The problem is that Belgian workers are more expensive then Chinese workers. Especially the workers forced to work for Volkswagen in Chinese concentration camps.
Companies ought to stop thirsting for world domination, and focus regionally. If they don't want our cars- it's fair. We can also prohibit the sale of their cars here too.
As a slowpoke still in russia I'm confused by these lists. The first thing, sure, is to check if I know anyone from here, and for a long time I've never seen anyone somehow related to me. But what if I do recognize someone? And not dead, but taking a vacation leave in my city. What if I'd meet them in person, knowing what they've done? I'm afraid of that moment but it would eventually come. I can't conpute what I should do in that context and am happy I'm yet to be forced to.
Good job on them OSINT guys. Страна должна знать своих героев, блять. It's good to see them tracked and not cowardly covering themselves with their masks.
In addition, some observers say that NATO's involvement in the Indo-Pacific would not be welcomed by everyone. "This is a very volatile region. But there are no hot wars at the moment," Shada Islam, an independent EU advisor in Brussels, told DW.
"Most of the countries that I speak to, whether it's Indonesia or Malaysia or even India, don't want this foreign power to come to the region and perhaps make things worse," Islam said.
So, getting tougher on China and establishing closer bonds with partners in the Indo-Pacific will remain a difficult balancing act for NATO.
"It's a balancing act because there is a risk of escalation," Liselotte Odgaard at Hudson Institute told DW.
If NATO countries push too hard, she said, China could decide to cooperate even more with Russia, North Korea and Iran. That certainly would not be in the interest of NATO.
Holy shit that is a lot of info. Lots of links to images on google drive, screen shots of vehicle details, email addresses for family members, just. Wow.
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