Meanwhile, some reports from the frontlines indicate that while drones are ubiquituous, they aren't the game-changer the tech-industry wants them to be. tl;dr essential bits: a) most drone strikes could have been done by other, cheaper weapons. b) drones are an unreliable weapon due to jamming, dependency on weather and light and many technical failures.

I'm pretty sure that's untrue. Something like 80% of all causalities in the war right now are coming from drones. There are many ways around jamming (band jumping, fiber optics, AI, GPS, piggybacking on cell networks, etc), and those improve every day. And locating and targeting remote drone operators is far harder than targeting a nearby mortar or artillery crew (unsure which "cheaper" weapons you believe exist...drones are dirt cheap)

No, it's not. It is legal to go to a port of entry and request asylum, not to enter the country without permission.

"It is legal and correct to enter the country and then apply for asylum."

There is a "clause" that allows someone who did enter the country illegally to request asylum after an illegal entry -- providing they requested the asylum in a timely manner -- then they would get no penalty for the illegal crossing. It most certainly isn't "legal and correct" in the sense you imply.

The "streamlining" that was done by the previous administrator clearly overwhelmed the system. I would argue that it was by designed to do that by the sheer volume streaming across the boarder and the administration's protests that everything was fine and dandy. Another clue that the policy was piss-poor is to look at how many asylum seekers were granted asylum -- often well below half over the last 10 years (fluctuates between less than 20% to less than half).

Lets look at the numbers:

4 years before Trump, there were something like 8 million border encounters (mostly on the southern border). About 5 million were "paroled" for entry to apply for asylum. Of those, only about 1 million have applied. Of that 1 million, anywhere between 20% and less than half will be granted. And, that doesn't account for "got aways", which are around 1-2 million. And these are conservative estimates.

So, of just the numbers of encounters during those 4 years, only 1 million submitted paperwork for asylum. Remember that "timely manner" bit?

Allowing a flood of humans in to our country is a horrible practice that no other country allows to the extent that the US does. We're 3x (per capita) the number of illegal/undocumented immigrants than Europe BEFORE Biden.

Yes, I will absolutely give green light to Israel to protect itself against all enemies around it, all of who want to see Israel destroyed completely.

I will do the same exact for Ukraine.

Both countries are at war, protecting themselves against terrorists that are trying to destroy them.

As to the claim that Israel commits any war crimes, there are always some crimes at war, this is inevitable. Israel is the ONLY side in that conflict that actually actively works to prevent war crimes by having the most strict rules and protocols that are set up to ensure there are as few casualties as possible. That's why Israel uses the most advanced most precise ammunition to target its enemies instead of doing what I would have probably done, which is total annihilation of all enemies with the maximum force possible. That's my preferred approach. But Israel is not me, so they are extremely careful.

So are you saying he is supposed to be responsible for everyone's welfare because he has the ability to pay quite a bit? Are you this generous with your own money as well, or only with the money of people that you don't like, because they have so much more of it than you will ever have?

"Tom and his ICE are deporting only about twice as many people as his predecessors -"

They and this administration have also turned down the flood of illegal border crossings that the previous administration refused to acknowledge for 3 years. And then the only "solution" that came out of that administration and it's congress' was to try make what they were doing legal and demanded the opposition accept it.

Note: I'm a never Trumper. I'm proud to say I didn't vote for Trump in 6 elections (3 primaries and 3 national elections), but he's right on immigration and border crossings. Implementation has had problems that need correcting, but we need to enforce our laws with regards to immigration and work permissions. I also married someone who came to the US legally at age 19 with her family from Syria. She became a citizen in her mid 20s. It can be done legally.

Trying to paint this as some racist/facist action that's only targeting "brown people" is just an outright lie. Most people in the US without status are Hispanic and a great plurality are from Mexico.

Israel is the only democracy in the region and it is home to the Jews from all over the world and they must and will protect their home. Israel does not target civilian population, it targets combatants, who are hiding among the so called "civilian" population. Civilian in quotes, this population provides the meat to replenish the Hamas terrorist combatants. These civilians attacked Israel on the 7th of October together with Hamas terrorists and murdered Israelies and boasted about it. I am 100%, 10000% pro Israel and against all of its enemies.

you are a terrorist sympathizing scumbag, why don't you move to Gaza? Ukraine has been under fire for over a decade now, children are murdered by ruzzian orcs every day, so is anyone else unlucky enough to be hit by a drone launched into civilian infrastructure.

Israel must win and not let any terrorists annihilate itself.
Ukraine must win this and not let any terrorists annihilate itself.

Both countries are under attack by terrorists. In fact ruzzian terrorists have been supplying middle Eastern terrorists with weapons and intelligence and psyops help (similar to what you are engaged in) for a very long time. The world must awake to this nonsense, remove ruzzian terrorism from this planet, this would clear out quite a few other terrorists from this planet.

Except you are a lying scumbag, that's all. Israel is protecting itself from extermination, lead forward by Iran, who is now going to be busy enough with its own problems for a while, to support all the terrorists around Israel, at least these are good news. Hoping that Israel deals with the Hamas operatives and finds all of the remaining hostages.

You are not just off topic, you are a pro-terrorist scumbag.

no. Not childish. The accurate description.

really? why? Orcs are the closest thing that we have in folklore that describes their insane behavior, including suicide without any hesitation the moment they find further suffering slightly inconvenient. It is a good description of war creatures that display complete disregard for anything living. They murder children, rape everything that breathes, eat their own, kill them and eat them. Orcs.

I am sure over the last 3.5 years all sorts of things happened, however orcs from ruzzian mad king are doing it daily and they are getting orders to do it from their commandment as well. Ukrainian forces have investigated a few cases that were reported from the Ukrainian side. It has been 3.5 years of daily attacks by ruzzian orcs on Ukrainian civilians, hospitals, kindergartens, birthing wards, houses, theaters bombed in a terrorist strategy of trying to force Ukrainians to take down their government. Instead the people of Ukraine have worked together to build an extremely efficient system of producing, purchasing and transfering to the front lines drones and all sorts of other equipment. I know it first hand, I personally have spent over three quarters of a million USD to fight against the orc invasion. Your comment here shows what sort of trash you are.

they will take a donkey's kong up their ass, that's what they will take at the end of this. They are gaining a few hundred meters of forward movement per day for hundreds and thousands of dead orcs. This is what they count on, that people will give up simply because they will not be able to stop the meat attacks. The meat attacks will stop as the money dries up and it will dry up.

ruzzian orcs use drones to murder individual civilians, including children. This is different from simply carpet bombing, to murder a 1 year old in this case they had to hunt him down specifically, find him and blow him up individually.

This is the face of the ruzzian 'soldier' today, putin or not, it is the individual people who are making every day decisions. AFAIC ruzzians are now all legitimate targets, every one.

Correct, the headline should be: Why is Fertility So Low in EXPENSIVE Countries?

The reality is that 'high income' more likely than not means high prices, constant pressure to keep earning money, because there are very few things in 'high income' (expensive) countries that doesn't cost money. We are constantly forced to pay taxes, never mind that in expensive countries large parts of the population live in dense urban areas, in cities and nobody has land that they can live off of. If you have no source of food other than the store and you cannot avoid paying taxes and paying high costs of owning or renting a property, then you are constantly under pressure to earn money.

In an expensive country you have expensive government and this government never ceases to pressure you to pay more taxes, makes things truly unaffordable by pretending to give it to you for free, basically in expensive countries you are forced to provide not only for yourself and for your children and maybe for your elderly parents, you are forced to provide for your expensive government.

An expensive government is obviously the cost of running the government itself, salaries, pensions, buildings, all expenses but it is also all of the laws, that are constantly adding more and more expenses to the system, thus mostly forcing the government to get deeper into debt and to steal your purchasing power through inflation (money printing).

Under these circumstances people who have access to contraceptives will use them almost always and this prevents almost all unwanted pregnancies. The other part of the population is just too stressed out and too tired from constant earning to pay for all of this 'high income' expensive stuff.

At the end children become a luxury for those, who can afford just a little more than the other guy or they become a way to suck money out of the system itself by getting onto various programs. They are an irrational choice for many, so to have them you either have to have a direct financial incentive or to be irrational or to be wealthy enough to afford them.