It points to assets being inflated, due to the rich not being taxed properly any longer.

Every investment has grown incredibly in price. Stocks, gold and also housing. That is honestly the biggest reason a blue collar workers pay can no longer feed a family of five easily. In the 60s food was actually pretty expensive back then for example. In the US of 1960 a stick of butter would be the equivalent of $27.74 today. However housing was not and that makes up a huge part of current spending, if you do not own a property already.

Wait until they find out about “National Socialism”…

Thomas Müntzer fanboy.

Those were originally made in the 90s. Japans population peaked in 2008 and has declined by over 5million people since. All without war, disease or stuff like that.

This is also true for some other countries. The current medium UN forecast projects Chinas population to more then half by the end of the century.

Even that does not change things too much. Not to half anyway, but just to 14% of global CO2 emissions.

We also consume a lot of meat and the like, which means we can feed a lot more people, if we wanted too.

Today a good number of countries have natural population declines due to people having too few children. That includes some big ones like China, Russia, Japan, Germany and Italy. Also all continents beside Africa have a fertility rate below replacement. So in the coming decades the global population is likely to fall. Most of that is the side effect of good developments like women getting more rights, education and people becoming wealthier. It will just take time.

Forbes beat you too it.

By 2200, if you read the article. So basically have less children.

The article suggest halving the global population by 2200. So not some nuclear war or disease killing half of humans basically over night. So more Japan and less nuclear war.

The US is bad, but when you look at CO2 emissions it is still just at 12.7% of global emissions for example. Not even close to half. Obviously on a per capita bases that is still crazy high.

Two decades ago the US waged war to get oil from the Middle East. Today it wages war to stop oil from the Middle East.

Looks like the women on the left is wearing some sort of hijab. So certainly possible.

That was the time after WW2. Of cause the economy does a lot better, when you do not bomb out cities and kill millions. That could have happened earlier, without the war and everybody would have been better of.

The US is at war and China is not. The third most powerful country would be India and afaik they are not at war right now.

WW2 was not a boon to production. Well it was for weapons, but most of Europe and good parts of Asia were destroyed with millions dead. The only country coming out of it in better shape was the US, which did not see bombing and had relatively low human losses(still horrible to be clear, but not even close to what others had).

Modern wars suck and any smart country will try to avoid them. Hence you see Russia being fucked over by the EU via Ukraine and China fucking the US via Iran. Obviously you need dumb leaders to walk into those traps into the first place.

If you spoke out against the Nazis, you would have ended up in a concentration camp and people knew that. So few actually did something. However you have some interesting statistics, like for example that there was a massive drop of children being named “Adolf” in Germany in 1942.

You can actually see a number of things happening. However European countries are deeply into the US hegemonic system and have benefited from it for years. Cutting it would hurt Europe a lot and they also really want some US support against Russia. So the solution is to be somewhat nice to the US, while slowly building up systems to replace the pieces of US influence.

We can already see that. The EU has signed a lot of trade deals since Trump started his trade wars. That does not work over night, but will move EU trade towards other countries. There are also things like the digital euro to replace Visa and Mastercard, which would cause a lot of issues, if they are removed in the EU. As well as moving away from US software. This is done especially quickly by the armed forces.Fossil fuels are also replaced with green alternatives, which is key as those are a massive US export. You also see a massive rearming, to be able to handle Russia easily without US support. If Russia looses, then the EU would be in an actually very good geostrategic position on that.

This is the sort of stuff, which somebody like Trump can not really understand. As in really bureaucratic, not flashy at all and somewhat slow.

I think this type of push from the US will show us a lot. Like, are we really expecting Germany to arrest Netanyahu?

The truth is that Netanyahu is just not going to travel to Germany as long as the ICC tries to arrest him. He is 78, so going to die soon anyway.

Israel for the most part is just trying to control what Western countries do in relation to Israel. Even that is somewhat failing, as the recent recognition of Palestine show.

It is also useful to compare to what the West does in other cases of genocide. It is usually just some sanctions against the leaders of the country. As long as they do not threaten the West, they are usually pretty much ignored. This is especially true, when the country in question has something the West wants. Saudi Arabia and the UAE were pretty much given a free hand, when they killed thousands in Yemen. The UAE does a lot of similar things in other countries as well and basically nothing happens.

The only recent times something happened was with Serbia, which was in Europe(so no sea in between) and with ISIS, which was very openly anti West.

The EU has three times the population of Russia and an even larger economy. Russia can not hope to win an arms race and they know that. If they go for it, they end up bankrupting the country. So the smart option is for Russia to not try to keep up with Europe and make some sort of deal to limit the threat. The Soviets did that with the US btw and there are other examples as well.

Is any of the people who praise the rearming have an idea of what happens in case of war with Russia?

We see it in Ukraine and it currently looks like Moscow is burning. So a lot of death and destruction, but no way they win a war against Europe, when they can not even defeat Ukraine. Hence rearming to make sure that Russia does not have any stupid ideas. It is much cheaper then a war.

Did people forget that they are in a military alliance with China, Iran and N. Korea?

They have one with North Korea. Afaik Russia is not at war with the US right now, besides the US clearly being at war with Iran. There is no way Iran supports Russia in any meaningful way. They also do not have one with China. Hell China refuses to sell arms to Russia.