Even your best case scenario (which you won't prove) is like 60% off normal.

Iran doesn't have to or try to win, just survive. The fact you think that matters reveals how over their skis the admin is.

That's the type of foreign policy insight you get when you don't fire anyone with knowledge about anything. I'm sure Pete H will have this in the bag any week now.

Amazing how up the facts don't care about your feelings crowd gets so upset over updating a map.

This is what happens when you put yes men stooges in charge who do the same with the people under them.

They learned nothing from Vietnam.

A certain orange individual made it cool to be racist and bigoted again. That and a steady diet of propaganda from Fox telling you that all your troubles are caused by brown people and immigrants. You know the people eating your pets.

True! In six months 750 million barrels have come out of the Persian gulf.

Only problem is under normal circumstances that amount should have been 3.6 billion.

So hey, only need a 5x increase! Things are going great!

https://youtu.be/QeQwZgWN9dw?t...

If it wasn't for bots these stories would have half the comments.

Trump doesn't want much of anything he's senile. The invasion of Greenland is part of project 2025 and a broader attempt for the fascists who are pushing it to expand America's borders.

It's the same thing fascists always do. They're incompetent so they collapse the economy and then they need to loot their countries in order to fill back the coffers at home. The Democrats in America don't somehow win the next two elections by pretty sizeable margins and in a few years we'll be invading Canada and Mexico and South America and once we have control there we'll take Greenland and launch an offensive into Europe. Just like the Germans did and we will even have death camps over here stuffed with dissidents and homosexuals and whatever out group we really settle on to lay into.

There's a reason why you've heard the phrase it can't happen here.

I have it on good authority from random uncles on Facebook that the UN is a cabal of freedom stealing blood drinkers that want us to eat tofu and bugs and drive Priuses.

Not for Americans it isn't. Famously you can always count on us to do the right thing after we've tried everything else.

And also something to remember is that the UN has to be a bit powerless by design otherwise nobody would be a part of it, much less the largest nations. It's frustrating but the alternative is a really nothing in it's place.

It's just like "laws" around warfare like the Geneva Convention. If the rules are too restrictive on either side of the war then those rules just won't get followed.

As if millions of grandpas in America cried out "I'm not racist but..."

It is possible to work on two problems at once.

I would agree, I enjoyed it for the most part and I never read the books. I think Alexander Skarsgard did a good job which being the name of the show is the most important element to hit, he can join the ranks of "really good looking guys who just want to be comedic actors".

I found it was a nice take on a pretty well worn trope and it somehow made that trope more emphatic by not taking itself so, so deadly serious like say Westworld. It also ended at least satisfying enough while leaving the door open for more stories so nice to hear it's still building up a greater storyline.

It also is a show that is only 30 minutes an episode which is becoming less and less common.

Boomers did take a lot. They burned a lot of cheap fossil fuels and did very well out of it, leaving the mess for younger generations to clean up, for example. They enjoyed massive increases in wealth due to house prices going from 2-3x average income, to 12-13x. That won't be repeated, we won't have houses costing 30-50x average income in another few decades, it was a one-off benefit for them.

Mistakes were made. The assumption was that every generation would be bigger and wealthier than the last, but the opposite happened. In the UK we went from 14 working age people per pensioner in the 60s to 4 today, while the value of the state pension and the amount of healthcare they receive greatly increased. Because of at faulty assumption, it has become unsustainable and unaffordable.

I understand why they feel entitled now. They did what they were told was the right thing to do, and it worked well for them. They didn't vote out of malice to screw younger generations, they were just sold a fantasy. The problem is that they passed on the bad advice and it didn't work for their kids, and they are now unwilling to correct these mistakes out of their own pockets.

Unfortunately young people don't vote, at least not in high enough numbers for politicians to care. In any country where the system doesn't account for that, through things like mandatory voting or proper proportional representation where every vote counts, young people get screwed.

For example, in the UK the state pension has a "triple lock". It goes up by the higher of inflation, average wages, or 2.5%. Often that means it goes up more than wages, and the tax burden on working age people is now becoming unsustainable. It's politically impossible to get rid of it though, because pensioners vote in large numbers and most of them won't vote for it to be fairer.