Comment Re: Not wars over water (Score 1) 45
Netenyahu's approach lost the support of the Israeli voters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Netenyahu's successor was willing to make a ton of concessions for peace: https://www.youtube.com/shorts...
IIRC the Boeing issue was because no one had installed those "Boeing bolts".
This gave the US enormous economic clout and the ability to issue USD denominated debt at very low interest.
German Euro bonds are cheaper than US bonds, so you better rethink your economic theory (and stop watching youtube).
What the Ukraine war is making clear is that Russia can pretty much ignore European opinion.
That is not clear at all. Russia keeps threatening to nuke UK because they don't ignore European opinion.
It's true, they had a shortage of shadow puppets, the early form of Netflix.
I wish more would choose Jainism over Islam and Christianity. Many crave some kind of religion, and if such people picked the more peaceful religions there would be fewer busybodies trying to force their beliefs on others.
can the researchers really say with confidence that the civilization would still be with us today?
Nobody claimed it would otherwise still be around. You are putting words in their mouths. It only solved, or at least partly solves a mystery. Usually declines of ancient cities can be traced to invaders, civil war, damaged soil, plagues, etc. This one had no known comparable cause.
Is it possible the smoke & soot from the city changed the local weather?
We contend that reduced water availability, accompanied by substantially drier conditions, may have led to population dispersal from major Harappan centers, while acknowledging that societal transformation was shaped by a complex interplay of climatic, social, and economic pressures.
Don't conflate the arrogant headline with knowledgeable researchers.
[...] to help businesses set up and manufacture back in the US again,with US workers with good paying jobs?
Globalization happened. You can't rewind the clock and pretend it didn't. The situation we operate under now is different than what we had in the mid-20th century.
They found out somebody accidentally installed Boeing bolts.
“serious administrative shortcomings [that] threaten the continuity and safeguarding of crucial technological knowledge and capacity on Dutch and European soil,” the government said, with "fears of tech leakage, meaning property and know-how are transferred to China.'
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.
"For a male and female to live continuously together is... biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition." -- Robert Briffault