That was the time after WW2. Of cause the economy does a lot better, when you do not bomb out cities and kill millions. That could have happened earlier, without the war and everybody would have been better of.

The US is at war and China is not. The third most powerful country would be India and afaik they are not at war right now.

WW2 was not a boon to production. Well it was for weapons, but most of Europe and good parts of Asia were destroyed with millions dead. The only country coming out of it in better shape was the US, which did not see bombing and had relatively low human losses(still horrible to be clear, but not even close to what others had).

Modern wars suck and any smart country will try to avoid them. Hence you see Russia being fucked over by the EU via Ukraine and China fucking the US via Iran. Obviously you need dumb leaders to walk into those traps into the first place.

That is not building an alternative though. You are only destroying the current system by shooting the execs and are merely hoping that things improve.

Building an alternative would be some way of dealing with sewage without dumping it on the beach. The main problem with that are usually combined pipes for rain water and sewage. So when you have heavy rain the sewage plant can no longer deal with all the sewage, as a lot of it is just rain water. The alternative for that is something like a sponge city, where the rain water goes straight into the ground and is not blocked by asphalt or the like. Other then that lowering sewage going to the company using say compost toilets might work or maybe buying up the company and turn it into a cooperative.

Israel for the most part is just trying to control what Western countries do in relation to Israel. Even that is somewhat failing, as the recent recognition of Palestine show.

It is also useful to compare to what the West does in other cases of genocide. It is usually just some sanctions against the leaders of the country. As long as they do not threaten the West, they are usually pretty much ignored. This is especially true, when the country in question has something the West wants. Saudi Arabia and the UAE were pretty much given a free hand, when they killed thousands in Yemen. The UAE does a lot of similar things in other countries as well and basically nothing happens.

The only recent times something happened was with Serbia, which was in Europe(so no sea in between) and with ISIS, which was very openly anti West.

I was like what the hell is the European Space Agency doing with Minecraft in California…

The Chinese Super League had 6.1million tickets sold last season. It is a pretty decent size league.

If you really do not need soldiers to maintain and control them, then Ukraine could just demobilize. Those basically have to be in Ukraine, otherwise maintaining them requires insane logistics and control can be cut much more easily.

Also it is mainly about a trigger force, so Russia knows that if they attack again, they likely end up in a shooting war with that European country.

and an economy bombed out by Russia, which is only really able to fund the war, due to massive European aid. Not to mention stuff like sanctions. There are also options like European soldiers in Ukraine and stuff like that.

It makes sense for them to sit on the table.

Of cause, they want to kill the peace deal between Iran and the US.

Coal is mostly used to produce electricity and steel. So more electricity from solar then coal is actually good news.

However oil and gas are much harder to replace, but again we actually have a lot of the technology, it is “just” about rolling it out on scale, which is hard.

The period after WW2 was one of two periods in Western Europe, were wealth inequality went down in the last thousand years or so. The other one was the Black Death, when a lot of people died and that lead to worker shortages. Honestly a lot of deaths in WW2 might have also been a big part of why the post war period was so pleasant.

Makes you think about the low fertility rate in a different way.

It mostly comes from US bad, therefore everybody fighting the US has to be good. The other part is that especially in the US the conservatives called everything left of the socialism. When a policy you want like public health care is socialist and the USSR was socialist, then logically they are the good guys. The USSR also ran a good bit of propaganda to pretend they are a worker paradise.

In developing countries you used to have another actually more reasonable approach to it. The USSR succeeded in actually competing with the West for a long time, broke the social order of the Russian Empire and managed to industrialize and even go to space. This was something a lot of Western colonies and countries in similar situations wanted to emulate. So they copied it. This is why countries like Vietnam are in many cases pretty nationalist besides officially being Communists.

Zuckerberg brought a ‘Wingman’: Meta CEO’s $100M yacht support vessel is also docked in Seattle

It is mostly about Exxon. They are so good at being evil, that they changed the laws to legalize their crimes(Season 9), but it includes the usual murders and so forth.

Solution:

It is not. The beauty of it is, that the project is open source, so others can fork it or maybe just add features they want. Since it is decentralized, it is also easy to not go to ml or other instances.

The colour car you buy is a choice. Race is not.

You probably want to take some ferry trips. Certainly Helsinki-Talinn maybe also Stockholm-Helsinki. Train tickets in the Baltics and Poland are also rather cheap. So you might want to look into doing Denmark and Sweden with Interrail or buy all tickets separatly. That also would allow you to buy sleepers, which makes the long trips much nicer and saves you a hotel.

They are also an Israeli vassal state so it isn’t much of a change.

They are not in a war with Iran right now.