Iran is the size of Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Both in population and area. The difference being that none of the former allies will help out with that in any meaningful way, besides maybe using their air space and the current US bases in Europe.
The scientific article is really interesting:
https://academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jopres/xjag046/8703754?login=false
So your argument is that the US would give one of the biggest military aid package to groups, they are currently at war with? Seriously?
The shitty bloody truth is, that Israel does not. They have a fairly independent defence industry and it is not like any of the Arab countries on the path to Iran can do anything about the Israeli air force flying through their air space. So Israel can keep bombing. The pieces of leverage Trump has are US aid to Israel and stuff like sanctions. However Israel can probably survive even that, given they have a fairly independent defence industry and the economy is a dumpster fire anyway. If they are mad enough Israel can survive this.
Sorry, but that is the bloody truth. Israel is an Apartheid country and it took a lot to bring down the South African original. Even that was to a large degree the whites just giving up and Israel is no where close to that.
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.
Safety from a good atmosphere during a game.
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.
In his last term Obama tried to be nicer to Cuba and made some deals with them, which included easing on the embargo and embassies.
So is South Africa. It is just that SA is cheap to live in and with a remote US job, you have a much higher quality of life.
Having a massive car free zone is a huge obstacle and forces them to take public transit to the city centre. That is of cause part of the plan, but when you are from outside the ring, it is going to increase travel times. Just to be clear I support the idea, but this is a case of not being able to make an omelette without breaking some eggs.
Also the proposal is not going to happen anyway. Right now it would be about smaller changes, like removing parking and closing some streets, rather then a massive part of the city.
They basically just put US sports prices on football. Turns out non Americans are not willing to pay the price of a season ticket for a Champions League team to watch some smaller football nations play against each other.
Berlin has a lot of low density single family housing in the outer areas of the city. They often have some multi family mixed in and do have good public transport connections, however it is still a large pro car voting block.
And of cause being the capital of Germany a lot of things are reported nationwide.
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.
Korea, Japan and the US all produce a good number of chips as well. There are also some other fabs in other countries.
In practical terms Taiwan is basically an independent country. Legally speaking China is in a civil Taiwan basically being a faction and a decades long ceasefire. However the length of the ceasefire, Taiwan being an island and having been a Japanese colony created a weird situation. As in a real question within Taiwan, if they are Chinese or Taiwanese and also what to do about China. However there is a pretty large majority, who do not want to have the Communist government run Taiwan in any way. So the status quo remains. Also Beijing threatens to invade, if Taipei ever calls itself not the Republic of China, but only the government of Taiwan.
Ukraine is also hitting Russian oil export infrastructure like ports. Russia might get 60% more per barrel, but if the volume falls in a similar order of magnitude, then that is not helping Russia at all.
But the best way to deal with these problems, is to consume less oil. Long term, this is going to hurt Russia a lot. As in destroyed infrastructure and high prices destroying demand.
You need money to buy that and having no oil is basically a death sentence for a somewhat modern economy like that of Cuba. When the Soviet Union collapsed and that limited oil shipments to Cuba, there was a serious food shortage in the country. This was without the US actively stopping oil tankers from reaching the country.
China and Russia are not members of the ICC.
Also most of them are pretty happy that Trump is busy bombing Iran and not them. But also all of them are lowering dependence on the US as much as possible, but are quite about it. At least the EU also does not like the Iranian regime terribly much.