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'Work is under way to make all men in #Poland undergo military training, Prime Minister Donald #Tusk said. [....]

Efforts are being made to "prepare large-scale #militarytraining for every adult male in Poland," he told the Sejm.

"We will try to have a model ready by the end of this year so that every adult male in Poland is trained in the event of #war, so that this #reserve is comparable and adequate to the potential threats."'

Donald Trump announced the names of five digital assets he expects to include in a new U.S. #crypto #strategic #reserve on Sunday, spiking the market value of each.

Trump said on social media that his January executive order on digital assets would create a stockpile of currencies including
#bitcoin , #ether , #XRP , #SOL and #ADA .

The names had not previously been announced.
The assets rose 8% to 62% in trading on Sunday.

reuters.com/world/us/trump-say

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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Pericles 3/

And so it was that Pericles, seeking to avoid the satiety which springs from continual intercourse, made his approaches to the people by intervals, as it were, not speaking on every question, nor addressing the people on every occasion, but offering himself like the Salaminian trireme, as Critolaüs says, for great emergencies. The rest of his policy he carried out by commissioning his friends and other public speakers.

[Section 7]

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@VQuaschning
Wie es zu erwarten war..., oder nicht?
Also nach meiner Einschätzung als absoluter interessierter Leihe sieht das bei China doch, wie folgt aus:
Falls #China bis #2030 im Tempo zu legt, insbesondere was auch noch #Energiespeicher angeht, dann schicken die ihre zentralen Kraftwerke systematisch in die Reserve bzw. in den Rückbau. Es verbleiben dann nur noch die #Nuklearkraftwerke, die militärischen, wissenschaftlichen oder medizinischen Zweck erfüllen, bei den fossilen #Kraftwerke bleibt dann auch nur noch eine strategische #Reserve für die #Versorgung im #Krisenfall...
Und wir wählen in Deutschland den Wirtschaftsminister ab, der für eine strategische Neuausrichtung am meisten geleistet hat. Läuft...