Perhaps by design. There's nothing beter than a word of mouth campaign to promote a coming product.

Only to a limited degree and duration. If I walk up to the counter and point to a candy bar, the only ID required is the dollar bill I'm prepared to hand over in exchange for it.

Imagine a society where the terms of the exchange depend on prior establishment of your identity and social credit score.

Define "working society". Are you including the people who shoplift/steal items and make their living selling them at popup flea markets? If you do, then please let us know the next time you leave your garage door open or car unlocked. So we can restock our street corner market.

Dictators are bad. There's no way around it.

And frankly I think you are probably braindead for defending dictators. I don't know what your problem is or why you would do that. Even if you are communist, defending a dictator is anti-proletariat.

What

I can see your genius showing through. I especially admire your citation.

Elections usually have observers from both parties to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen.

So ok, these are the kinds of election frauds that could happen, or have happened historically.

If we're going to be scientific about it, we should ask, "Where were the Republican observers? What is there testimony about what happened?" Any attempt to ignore the hundreds of observers that were present is just unscientific nonsense.

The rise of populism in Europe is a real trend.

Populism isn't automatically a bad thing: it just means that the general public is being represented (or appealed to). Obama was populist, and he was fine, literally the best US president of the century and it's not even close.

Populism combined with the belief that your country can conquer the world is a bad thing (like what Hitler did). But a knee-jerk anti-populist attitude is not nuanced enough.

I will also add that Ian Bremmer seems to see trade deals as an important part of Pax Americana, but it isn't. "Liking America" is also not Pax Americana. Pax Americana isn't a popularity contest.

Pax Americana happens because countries have a moderately reasonable belief that if they invade their neighbor, America will do something to stop them. When that belief is gone, Serbia will immediately invade Kosovo.

Yes, Mexico is.

His goal is to break the relationship between China and Russia, much like Kissinger did in the cold war. That happened right as Trump was at the age of becoming aware of politics.

I don't know why you got modded down, but this is exactly right. Cops should not be able to disable their cameras.

What do you think Europe is going to do? Kick America out of NATO? That's not going to happen.

False. Russia and China are very clear about their goal to create a multi-polar order, and eventually the bigger and eventually the only pole.

Some people in Europe complain about the "rules based order," but they fall in line behind America. They would rather have free healthcare than a big military.

Demonstrably false. You might say it was never the sole point of US policy.

The short distance is an issue. Cuba does seem to have the ability to fight back and inflict pain, even if they can't likely win.