You have remarkably strong opinions on a topic you know very little about.

Nah. The Program Committee members are the ones who pick the peer reviewers.

To be fair, though, usually reviewers are hard to motivate, and some are late or just drup out of sight, so as the program-committee area head you probably end up having to review the papers you can't find reviewers for.

https://www.politico.eu/articl...

I don't know enough about Dutch law to say much more than that, but I'm sure they had lawyers work it out.

America can push Israel to accept a two state solution. The problem is finding a way to convince Palestine to accept it.

Here is what you said. You said that it is disputable that rocks can think.

Bask in the stupidity of your comment.

Someone might counterargue that building bombs that do nothing but explode (or worse, destroy assets) is not a benefit to the economy, and that the 90s had an economic boom as the world returned to peace, and anyway government spending doesn't matter (economically) if it's on bombs or on anything else.

It would be interesting if you looked up how much benefit was from war spending and how much was from other effects. I think you will find there is not actually a correlation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

America can push Israel to accept a two state solution, but they can't push Palestinians to accept a two state solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine no later than 2010.

No because Russia was/is much weaker, too. There is no chance for them to reach the Rhine.

Usually the term used is near peer.

Russia is the country that had an alliance with all the major parties in WW2.

I don't pretend to know what Trump's goal was, but he did succeed in getting Europe to take the active role in the Ukraine conflict. They are taking care of it now.

Most Americans would rather have $100 in their pocket than a dominant role in global geopolitics.

ROTFL you don't know good prose.