I think Americans have a slightly distorted view on NATO. A lot of Europeans do not want NATO either. It has served its purpose after World War 2, defending against communism. But now the same communism is coming from the American Empire. The Germans always had a good relationship with Russia. There was trade and cultural exchange, but the US would no longer allow it, because it made Germany an industrial superpower.
The US has a lot of undue influence in Europe. For instance, mere hours after Donald Trump was elected, the German government fell, claiming the German government could no longer work... Why? Do the Germans get their instructions from the US? Can the German government not operate independently for its own people?
There are 84,000 US troops in Europe. Why? To defend from something? What then? Or is the purpose to use Europe as part of the US Empire to wage wars in the Middle East? Europe is basically occupied by the US.
By the way, the idea that the US would spend a single dollar less on "defense" if it were to disband NATO is a typical fantasy of isolationists. The US military-industrial complex is long been a self-propelled thing. It's exists for its own purpose and conflicts arise because they are needed to sustain it. It is sustained because conflicts require its existence.
Perhaps part of the problem is also that Americans use about 10 times more medicine than Europeans. Additionally, the amount of morbidly obese people or simply fat people in the US is astonishing. Europeans are healthier overall. Much healthier.
Make these people public property. We all get to be their owners for a month or so and put them to work. You can torture but not kill (too easy).
Imagine 90 million Iranians, 80+% of which want the regime gone. Imagine Israel taking very effective steps that show Iran's republican guard is a paper tiger.
The world has the ball and is in front of an open goal.
How can Americans benefit? Do you think the world would maybe be a better place if Iranians can undo the revolution of 46 years ago?
Btw, I am a pro-Trump Libertarian and doing away with the regime would for sure be the moral thing to do, especially considering how efficiently and with low cost in human life it has been going so far.
Also, listen to Iranians. They know what is up and they know what Iranians want. They know that no boots on the ground are going to be needed.
"Soon" in astronomical terms means in a few hundred years. It could have already happened and we could find out about it next week. Or it could take another 10,000 years.
This just goes to show that Canadians do not know what the meaning of the word "free" is. Do doctors work for free? Do pharma companies give out free medicine? Do their workers not get paid? Is Canadian healthcare operated by slaves?
You mean to say the cost of health care is shared collectively by force and without consent... that is NOT what the meaning of the word free is.
I too live in a country with "free" healthcare. This all sounds very good until you actually need healthcare. I have had to wait 6 (!) months to get a simple MRI. I pay about 600 euros per month out of my paycheck for "healthcare" to the state. I have done so for almost 25 years now. That is 180,000 euros. I could have easily paid for all of my medical costs ever with that money. I could have invested that money and doubled it by now. I could have paid off my house loan 10 years earlier and saved another 1300 euros per month.
I ended up paying 150 euros for the MRI out of my own pocket. Socialized healthcare is inefficient and expensive.
The 9mm is hardly ever used in this case. It is better to get the 10mm
Psychopathy is no joke.
At the end of the day, all that really matters is that close to 80% of Iranians want the Islamic occupation to end.
The article has very little structure to it. It could have been a meme-image.
20 years in the gulag for this commie
Interesting but there is no point in using artillery in such a scenario.
There is only one sacrifice I am willing to make: I sacrifice our politicians.
I am glad I do not live in a NATO country
The total destruction of German political parties like the Green Party, SPD and CDU can not come soon enough.
This. Best case they would test against a "vaccine" without the vaccine, just the adjuvants. But obviously this is cheating. They should use a simple salt solution as a placebo. As far as I can tell they never did, because it would show how incredibly many people die from vaccines.
As an electrical engineer, having worked on measuring ECGs 25 years ago, I think the word "emit" is not correct. You can not measure brain waves externally, in fact, it takes conductive gel and sensitive transducers connected to high Q amplifiers to measure these signals.
Other than that; yeah, almost anything that happens in classrooms is to diminish the individual and "socialize" the child into the herd of sheep.
Isn't this going to pose a huge loophole though? I am all for it. My boss pays me minimum wage and tips the rest. I buy bread at the shop for 1 ct and I tip the rest.
Exactly. In the early 90s, when I was going to school, the history teacher would actually have us compare the party programs of the National Socialists to that of the Soviet Communist Party. They were 90% identical. Both very anti-capitalistic. Both hated the Jews. Both wanted companies to be state property, etc.
Exactly. And I would even take it a step further; There were plenty of unknowns. It was always retarded to take a vaccine with so many unknowns. Take with that that RNA-virusses mutate very very quickly (vaccine can not be effective) and if it could even impart any immunity, that immunity would need to be in the airways and not anywhere else (vaccine would be ineffective).
We knew all this from March 2020 onward. It was enough to at least wait it out when it came to the vaccine. Soon after enough information was available to know that the quality control on mRNA is difficult and large-scale production would result in mRNA chains of unknown length. We knew about DNA-contamination. We expected transcription of the mRNA into the DNA (how else does human DNA have large quantities of DNA of viral origin in it?).
Etc.
He could have known it all had he postponed knee-jerk judgment and actually looked at the information and heard from experts who did not just push the narrative.
Doctors like that should really be locked up for life or worse.
I see a classical U distribution. It's the very very stupid ones and the supposedly smart ones. Both are most captured by the system and never question anything. The stupid never question because they are too stupid to reason. The smart never question because the system provides them with so many benefits.
Btw, one of my aunts took 11 COVID shots (!), got cancer and died within 4 weeks. My uncle (highly educated) has finally begun asking at least some questions, but it is clear he is not looking for inconvenient answers. He merely wants someone to tell him it for sure was not due to the vaccine.
Although this is fake... how I would react would really come down to how I feel that day.
Some days I would just smile and be polite, but insist on getting to wear my hat. I would have a conversation and try to explain to her that it is okay to disagree, but I could have acted like her during the whole Biden-administration...
Then on other days I would kerb-stomp that bitch's thick skull on the arm rest and not stop until I can take her tiny monkey brain and eat it while looking the other passengers in the eyes one after the other.
I have less and less fs to give and less and less things to lose and or live for. And I am ok with it.
It's funny to see all the Porkistan propaganda everywhere.
There are even Pakis who claim Pakistan "won" the war, because they begged Trump to ask India for a ceasefire.
I hope India completely demolishes Pakistan. It is a failed state with over 60 internationally recognized terrorist organizations.
The answer is mostly economics; Driving a ship for 150 miles extra costs X dollars. There are N ships that pass through each year.
Building a 350 mile canal would cost Y dollars and then some amount per year for operation. You would want a little return on investment. Maybe write off the canal over the course of 50 years. So you would need to charge at least Z = Y / ( N * 50). That is disregarding operating costs, inflation etc.
I think in this case X is far lower than Z.
However, this could immediately change if the Hormuz straight becomes insecure or if shipping costs go up by a lot.
By the way, most of such constructions works are done by Dutch and Belgian companies... The same companies built the islands near Dubai and do all kinds of land reclamation all around the world. It would not be a showcase for the Emirates really.