Seems that you have no military training, because this is again nonsense. Even the air campaign of Desert Storm could not give the final blow to a con...
You mean to turn their Islamic revolution into a success or breath new air into it? Yes, likely an external military invasion will indeed unify the Ir...
Yes, we can help. Yet that is a delicate issue just how to do it.. In the end it's your job in Australia to either to cherish uphold democracy. No for...
Again wrong. They actually did do that. Here's a picture from "Black Friday" of the Iranian Revolution when that exactly happened: https://i.pinimg.co...
The President still has power, he or she isn't a decorative official. The President is elected every six years and can be re-elected once. (We learned...
Very diplomatically put. A bit more thorough investigation would show how the situation is worse as Trump is totally fine when it his family getting t...
We had earlier a similar system as in the US. Boy, did it suck. Then they changed it to a system that if on the first vote nobody gets a majority of t...
At least it has been successful in driving out those small capitalist shops from downtown Seattle and Portland, but yes, a lot of places in the US are...
Stop right there. This is your fundamental problem. You perhaps cannot even see it. It's that YOU are going with YOUR plan to LIBERATE somebody, free ...
And why have those countries that Israel has annexed territory from and/or been in war with Israel have made efforts to gain a nuclear deterrent? And ...
One thug doesn't simply make a bomb. Just look at Ghaddafi: his nuclear ambitions went nowhere, where a laughable joke. And after 1998 so was with Sad...
I get your point. But society doesn't work that way, literally. That accounting you talk about is far more important than you think. Work is important...
Sorry, but there simply is no fucking 911 to call for a police in this World when it comes to sovereign states. It's anarchy out their. Starts a war t...
Actually, we know now that Operation Desert Fox in 1998 destroyed the last remnants of Saddam Hussein's WMD projects. The real threat of Hussein getti...
Just think about why that projection is difficult: - British conquered the area of Iraq in WW1 from the Ottoman Empire and it's the British who set up...
Uhhh...you STILL do have all the expenses, don't forget them. All the unemployment benefits, all the bailouts and funding have to be covered. TRILLION...
Yes. How can you think that 99% of the Iraqi people thought that Saddam Hussein as abhorrent and be surprised that only 50%(which percentage I think w...
Of course not. But there are norms and customs, "way of the land". And things what is tolerated in politics and what is not. These either soft or hard...
In my view this was the biggest reason why US foreign policy during the Cold War was quite understandable and logical. But now, it's "We can do anythi...
Every society or nation has a power elite. The top administrators, the top politicians, the very rich people, the cultural elite and those in the medi...
Actually no. The Germans, the Austrians and the Japanese were OK with the Allied occupation. And yes, it really is a train wreck. Just think of the lo...
Because democracy has to come from the society itself. The own domestic elite of a country have to be for democracy. The struggle for power has to hap...
Let's remember that we don't have actual writings of the Eleatic School (such as Zeno's book), but only the narrative from an opposing school. And as ...
I'm not so sure about that. If unemployment isn't a great threat, you aren't facing living in the streets, then simply being unemployed is a valid opt...
Is it strange to understand that there is a huge difference of taking care of those necessities or just giving a sum of money to a person and hoping t...
Nice story, Benkei. Yes, that's the way to get rich: invest with debt in something that pays more than what you have to repay. And for a bank to be a ...
Two modern examples come to mind: Vietnamese invasion and ouster of the Khmer rouge in Cambodia. Even if it took time before the Red Khmers gave up (a...
Done by comparison. Most simple way is to look at real prices, meaning inflation adjusted prices. And let's say a modernized apartment in Manhattan in...
Even philosophically this is illogical: Let's have foreigners come to your country and install democracy. Sounds like an application that you can have...
This is flatly false. Iraq in reality became this sandbox for politically appointed and usually inept Republicans (chosen because of political ties an...
Yes. Likely there wouldn't have been ANY invasion. The US simply would not had gone into war. And note that then the US President was hinting Saddam h...
I think many Americans aren't extremely enthusiastic of voting for either of the two, even if they know who they will vote. And let's see how well the...
Rumors of this have been circulating since the 1990's. It may be so. But this might also be an urban myth, because likely a country like the US would ...
This is the way it has gone. Perhaps the only asset class that was let at least partially to come down was indeed the real estate sector, because the ...
If they are smart, they understand that being a Superpower is a burden that will get you in the end. Far better to be a regional power and not stretch...
Something like that. And people will wonder how utterly crazy people were in the 2010's and 2020's. Yes, I'm an optimist. What I really would want to ...
I would say that China is a Great Power, but not a Superpower. You see, if you say China isn't a great power, then there aren't many great powers othe...
Might be few years before Ivanka comes out with her tell all book. Yet there can be a time when she needs the money and the victimhood points. https:/...
Well sorry if economics is a bit weird, or if in economics and in economic literature they have been called "speculative bubbles" at least since the 1...
What does agnosticism have to do with this? If someone thinks that prices are ALWAYS going up, meaning real prices (not that the currency is losing va...
Sorry, but in economics this term is used. It's erroneous to assume that speculative bubbles happen because of some market participants just somehow s...
So you said: This I find still find confusing. Yet they look at inflation as it is now measured. That price stability is about consumer prices, prices...
OK, I'll just answer one part here as otherwise the answer would be too long. Yet economic bubbles are also speculative bubbles. Here's why. Let's thi...
Gambling is a natural human activity also, but a speculative bubble is separate from your ordinary market actions or the "Animal Spirits" Keynes talke...
? ? ? How is it fundamentally flawed? You think that speculative bubbles happen in times when interest rates are high and banks don't lend or what? Te...
Yet thanks to the let's say the last functioning remnants of the Republic and it's liberties, the excesses do come to light in the US and are at least...
It's more of a symptom than a cause, even if with index investing there is this mechanism to put more investment in the stock that have risen the most...
Or simply the advances just slows down and in the end state the technology doesn't change. A wide variety of technology has simply found an efficient ...
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