Recent content by 40thousandninjas

Too little, too late. Italy needs that, by itself and elements within Germany and in northern Europe will oppose it tooth and nail.

Err... China's trade as a percentage of GDP is 38.25%, higher than the US by a good bit but definitely not the world's most trade dependent nation. If I had to guess...that's probably Luxembourg with trade as a percentage of GDP at around 400%. Europe's deal is the shift the burden off the...

Ultimately it's a question of how much do you trust an individual vs trust the state to protect an individual and their dependents/family (no man is an island after all) from temptation. Pot should be legal and regulated. The biggest outstanding issue by far is a field sobriety test for people...

Iran had no choice but to come clean. The longer it went without a confession, the more the impacted nations would seethe and the more likely they would be to join a coalition down the road. They're still fucking up though. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51077897 Now they have renewed...

Just as a general note. Trump fans don't take his tweets literally, his critics do.

What some people don't understand is that Iran has been almost strategically exhausted. Between the sanctions, dozens of proxy wars, loss of support of some foreign Shia, poorly run economy and international pariah status, they're basically broke. Bloomberg - Are you a robot? Their most recent...

Europe's biggest problem isn't that it's irreligious so much as it's the general capacity for self delusion. In the post war world, they set up an economic system that maintains a high standard of living and a collection of political systems that bend unwavering to the people. Europe entered...

Yet, Rogue One just proved they could send the plans in a signal in the middle of a battle. It had already been established that the galaxy has transmitters capable of sending complex 3 dimensional images across galactic distances in real time (Attack of the clones). Even if the bandwidth is...

The trouble is, we don't see powerful computers elsewhere. "The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands." What, can no one make a copy? The trench run should have really been from a missile fired several LY away, yet the Rebel Alliance felt the need to send highly trained pilots on...

A fitting end for that idiot.

China has a number of big economic problems. In no particular order.. 1. Ridiculous amounts of debt. The state isn't really in debt but assets under it's control, directly or indirectly are. A small recession would make paying it back incredibly hard. 2. A huge demographic bomb, courtesy of...

He ultimately doesn't care about what is best for Iraqis, he uses his position to further his own power. He's just playing the role of Iraqi nationalist because that's how he thinks he would best expand his power base.

I guess scuba divers are white supremacists now.

Muqtada al-Sadr is a shia terrorist but he's become anti-Iran, not surprising considering the Iranians are imperialist douchebags. Iran's been encroaching upon Iraqi sovereignty and now that the war against ISIS is over, Iraqi nationalists believe they can kick them out even though the...

Warren is one of the elite few politicians who outscores Bernie Sanders in the economic illiteracy index. In terms of economic policy, the general rule of thumb is to listen to what Pocahontas has to say and then implement the exact opposite. Anyone further right to and equal to the center-left...