This is discrimination against people of naz!
I don't disagree. If the alternative is playing candy crush or something then yeah maybe worth reading, but there are better ways to spend your time. I was getting pretty mad by the time I finished it.
In all of the articles like this, there's a just barely unspoken but rock solid premise that the industrial policy approach of the West should be better than the Chinese as some natural law. There's a real reluctance to engage with non-racist thinking.
Incredibly high grade cope here
Ukraine's fatal F-16 crash should scare Russia and China
First, with F-16s, Ukraine’s air force is becoming more aggressive and capable. Mes praised the F-16’s sophisticated avionics in an interview last November. "[The] F-16 is very maneuverable. It encourages you to pilot in an aggressive style,"
In short, be afraid because F16s are so dope that pilots go mad with power when they fly them
Bizarre that Formosa is also a town in Brazil. Is that a weird coincidence or is there some Taiwanese connection?
I'm quite familiar with this story. Nickel was the up and coming commodity in the run up to the 2008 GFC, hitting a high of about 50000$/t at peak. This spurred all kinds of Western interest, like the new caledonia project mentioned in that article as well as a number of others not mentioned. However, as private firms, these companies were all subject to the whims of market fluctuation and by the time nickel had dumped to below 10k/t in 2015, these projects were all generally scrubbed, bankrupt or otherwise distressed. The nickel market has rebounded since then, but increasing supply out of Indonesia and reduced expectation of future demand from changing battery chemistry (less reliance on nickel and cobalt), prices are still low.
The nature of low value add commodity markets like metals is that profit margins are very small and the cost of R&D is very high compared with things like tech. Building a new mine, mineral processing plant and other infrastructure required to process vast amounts of material (railways, electrical capacity, road access, ports) is tremendously expensive at best, even when no innovation is required. When building a new project and doing innovation for a new type of ore (in this case, the low grade lateritic rock in Indonesia), the uncertainty is even more of a killer. A project on the scale of Goro in new caledonia takes 10 years minimum to get off the ground. This is 10+ years of large cash outlays before a dime of revenue.
Long timeframe, low margin, volatile market, high capital intensity, all make this sector relatively unattractive for private capital, hence making it expensive for the private capital that does pursue it. The same factors mean that Chinese firms that can rely on government support (which, compared to private capital, doesn't twist in the wind) have a significant advantage over competitors.
the west is forcing Ukraine to fight with a hand tied behind its back
This is how the nazi stabbed in the back myth is developing for this conflict.
They've been in Gaza for like 11 months now with barely anything tangible achieved
It's wild to say that they have not achieved anything tangible. The Gaza Strip is practically uninhabitable, confirmed deaths are on the order of 2-3% of the population of the strip, and given the mechanics of how civilians suffer from war, the death of a further 10-20% of the gazan population is more or less baked in. These are awful, genocidal acts committed by a state that is actively, methodically and purposefully doing genocide. Genocide is a tangible activity.
This seems like a huge 
cope. If this is truly what Russian leadership is thinking, they are beyond hope.
Codifying a definition of Judaism that inherently means thinking that genocide is cool and good - what could go wrong
https://archive.is/n7Idf - sydney morning herald link
The resident who put up the palestinian flag:
“I’m not trying to hide – but it was an act of cowardice – scurrying in the night to plant your little bomb on my car – it leaves a bitter taste. There’s nowhere to spit but in this person’s face.”
Typical diogenes fan 
Gabriel knight was a documentary