MaxHoppersGhost

Capital is free to invest wherever, we have a market economy not a state run economy.

Much better than it's gone for the UK and many other EU countries.

I speak two almost three languages and have spent nearly a year backpacking around the world in mostly South America but some Europe and Africa. I've interacted heavily with locals in all trips, been invited into their homes and gone on trips with some. I have a deep love for reading history and understanding other cultures (which is how I've acquired my language skills).

I'm not MAGA either.

You sound like a typical liberal that pretends they're open minded but really isn't.

Yeah you can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, which is an ok exception. We've done pretty well for ourselves even with these exceptions (better than Europe).

I'm stating that they should be allowed to cool their homes to 60F if they want to.

While I agree the US meddling in the Middle East has caused wars/terrorism, the general US military presence globally is a massive benefit for the entire world. Once the US starts pulling back more (as they seem to want to do) we'll see more and more regional chaos that grows into trade disruptions and wars. Regional tomfoolery like the South China Sea stuff will occur all over the world and will escalate into wars.

If you live in the other 95% of the US where there aren't insufferable people who judge you for driving a Tesla it's not a big deal.

I'd love to see the math on whether the EU basically funded the Russian's war on Ukraine via Nordstream.

Where did you get your info from? Sword ownership is legal everywhere as far as I know and you can own automatic weapons and even grenades.

Stop making stuff up.

Providing relatively good paying jobs that people can do while sitting in an air conditioned room is hardly colonialism and it cheapens the word when we call it that. This isn't in the same universe as being forced to work to death in a sugarcane field or a gold mine.

What a crappy article. It talks about the 60% decline right after the spill but doesn’t quantify the recovery or lack thereof.