Who's consuming? China, the single biggest driver of increasing oil consumption for the past few decades, is predicted to hit peak oil this year and their oil demand is collapsing due to the massive market share of EVs in the Chinese market.

"Sanctions" indeed

Seymour Hersh is an award-winning journalist who's well-known for uncovering rampant government corruption. His record includes coverage of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, Saudi support for al-Qaeda leading up to 9/11, and the so-called "weapons of mass destruction" and "nuclear materials" used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Hundreds, thousands, millions. It's all the same because people died and the people that died weren't white.

The laws of Western states that the West only selectively follows? Gee...

I'm happy to move over from programming.dev to lemmy.ml

It's less a matter of technical capability and more one of cost. It's not like people didn't know how to build good, efficient homes before. It was just expensive.

Things don't have to be good in Europe to be worse in America.

Of course. They're white.

Who's stomaching the risk profile of investment in Afghanistan? More power to them.

Well, they are...

At least China doesn't try to hide it I guess

America, the land of the free.