The problem is that the penalties are just way to low. They really need to be in the double digit billions to work.

This is from the Korean war. For some time Busan was the only part of Korea still controlled by the South Koreans.

Insults a form of violence. Emotional violence that is. If I wanted to, I could rather easily insult you. Therefore I am capable of violence. However I did not default to it, because the situation does not call for it.

You could have replied in whatever way possible to my comment. I did not insult you at all. You however defaulted to insulting me. So unlike me you are not just capable of violence, you default to it.

That is the difference between being capable of and defaulting to. Hope you get it.

Egypt was and is very happy to blockade Gaza. The Saudis, UAE and a bunch more blockaded Yemen for ages. The Islamic State which commited a few genocides in the region was funded by the Golf States. Iran is financing a shit ton of genocidal groups around the region.

They really do not care about genocide. The population cares about Gaza, but the leadership does not.

Egypt helped blockading Gaza. Hell many were happy to blockade Yemen. The UAE currently finances a massive genocide in Sudan, which is certainly on a similar scale to Gaza.

The simple bloody truth is that similar to the West in MENA the governments do not care about genocide, but the people largely do.

Being capable of violence and men being masculine are really hardcore deal breakers /s

Gigachads like Elon Musk attract all the ladies. They all want to kill him with arrows…

Zionism unlike the Nazis is not a threat to western democracy. They want a Jewish state in the Middle East, which is not part of the West. As long as the West is not involved, it usually does nothing or just some arms export bans on the countries and some sanctions on leaders. Currently that is happening in Sudan, which is about as bad as Gaza, but has really nothing to do with the West. There is nothing about it in the news at least in the West.

The real intressting part is more that the West is not sitting on the sitelines, but is somewhat aiding Israel. It obviously depends on the country and some do not do it at all. However even so, you see Western countries moving away from Israel. All but the US that is.

All media is propaganda, so the question is whoes. This is from Singapore, which is very well placed to take in Chinese researches itself. So saying China is an option, is not extacly positive for them.

From Singapore…

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/divergence-of-gdp-per-capita-among-latecomers-to-the-capitalist-revolution-18002016?country=~Former+USSR

So much for that point. But yes the economy did grow pretty well until the late 70s. A good part of that was the recovery from WW2 and the Soviets gaining a lot of resources from countries further west. The other big part was that the Soviets profited from the oil crisis due to the OPEC oil embargo.

As for the 70% referendum to keep the Soviet Union. That was for the New Union Treaty, which would have given the Republics a lot more power, but a common foreign policy and military. Everything else would be handled by the individual republics. The bloody coupe was done by hardline Communists, which wanted to prevent that new treaty.

However the Russian and most former USSR economies really did have a bad time. A lot of companies collapsed and trade barriers were created. It was really a bad time for Russia.

Jack Ma basically just shut up for months and then ended up in Tokyo. He had to pay a lot, but is still a billionaire.

It is the military taking away a financing source for rebels. They mostly are not able to deal with problems like these though. Myanmar has turned into the biggest source of drugs in the world due to the civil war.

Germany has a 3.7% unemployment rate, which is going up a bit, but that is quite far away from mass unemployment Germany faced when Hitler took over.

This is just the combination of EV taking over and general lower car sales hitting the industry hard. It has to happen and is honestly a good thing long term. Other sectors of the economy are doing okay and baby boomers are retiring, so the work force is shrinking anyway. The situation is not even close to what happened in Germany when Hitler took over.

Turkey and Azerbaijan refer to their relationship as “two states one nation”. They are not going to war either.

The Timurids did a pretty good job of it. Mind you they then moved on to India, which turned out pretty great for them.

Azerbaijan and Armenia are about as far from being allies as two countries can be.

Also tram tracks and bike wheels are a bad combination.

That is why I call for Israel to be sanctioned like Russia or North Korea. So heavy sanctions for commiting large scale crimes against humanity. Cuba does not commit those on a large scale, so I do not support Cuba style sanctions against any country including Cuba, because the key feature of them is that they are injust.

Israel should be sanctioned like Cuba and Cubas sanctions should be lifted, because they are ridiculous. You probably can see the problem in making that comparison.