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.
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.
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.
Which says a lot about the incometence of the US, that somebody who clearly is pro Israel and anti Iran is saying this about the war.
The petition to built a death star has really one of the best responses ever written by the White House:
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
However, look carefully (here’s how) and you’ll notice something already floating in the sky – that’s no Moon, it’s a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that’s helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts – American, Russian, and Canadian – living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We’ve also got two robot science labs – one wielding a laser – roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo – and soon, crew – to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.
Even though the United States doesn’t have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we’ve got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we’re building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.
We don’t have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke’s arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.
We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country’s future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.
If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star’s power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
The only reasonable plan would be long distance night trains.
The focus on BYD follows a 2024 case in which 163 Chinese workers employed by a contractor were found building the automaker’s flagship factory in Brazil under what Brazilian officials described as “slavery-like” conditions.
Seems like BYD deserves to be on the list.
And China has a fascist one. It clearly is not that much down to the system.
Just look at a map of absolute poverty and armed conflicts in the world today. They pretty much overlap. Other countries like Brazil or India also managed some huge decreases in absolute poverty in the same time.
The Chinese Super League had 6.1million tickets sold last season. It is a pretty decent size league.