This shows that in a multipolar world, the West has lost global economic power
Sweet sweet schadenfreude
“There is nothing that is more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different” ― Albert Einstein
It is self inflicted. Very hard to feel sorry for them. Harder still when some of the manufacturers are relocating to my region.
France is losing its grip
With friends like Israel who needs enemies?
I lived in Japan and there are aspects where it is ahead but other aspects where it is stuck in 1970s with its processes and bureaucracy. For example in Saudi Arabia you can renew your passport and get a simcard without leaving the house and promptly. Last time I did my passport was delivered within 3 days and the simcard within 2 hours. In Japan getting my drivers license required multiple visits to various government offices and lots of paperwork. Similarly for getting a simcard, except for visiting the government offices part. Japan does have a significantly better infrastructure and more advanced and punctual mass transit system though.
What Texas is doing is disgusting and inhumane but ignoring the federal government along with other Republican-run states allows for interesting things to happen that could have positive consequences, such as the breakup of the US
The best possible outcome here is for Texas to be annexed by Mexico, it is a possibility but not inevitable
At this point all the news is obvious. The West and US will continue to be relevant but the days of them being able to act unilaterally are numbered if not over.
The empire won’t collapse in a spectacular fashion, and perhaps there won’t be a single event that causes it. It will be a slow and excruciating death by a thousand cuts.
That's why they are taking it out on the civilians, they can't defeat the resistance despite the technological advantage.
The Red Sea is our sea. No one shall pass.
Iranian backed rebels
You mean the legitimate government of Yemen that Saudi Arabia and UAE fought on behalf of the US and Israel and lost to
Bab el Mandab is a very narrow strait and the Houthis have the ability to strike anywhere in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea
PanArab
joined 5 years ago
Luigi did nothing wrong