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The neo-colonialism of American capitalist firms like United Fruit in South America at least organized these countries to produce useful products e.g. fruit. The alternative in context was probably communist hegemony of the region - which was unacceptable. Now the various organized crime...

In the German constitution protection of the weakest is from conception to grave. It has a lower rate of abortion than the USA but also provides full comprehensive care for the sick, the old, the widow and the orphan not to mention those stuck in poverty. Aside from the super-rich in the USA...

You might be right that the tendency towards lawlessness is a deeper cultural phenomenon than that occurring just in American culture indeed the scriptures anticipate this is in the longest term. Trump has not won the election and will be smeared with a lot of soiled personal revelations and...

The choice is not national sovereignty versus a version of hegemony, it is which version of hegemony is the least worst.

The atomization of Christianity into individual professions of faith is distinctively American and problematic. Maybe the church-state separation enshrined in America's DNA contributes to this. Russia and British Christianity have a more corporate feel at the societal level but are so also...

There is a good kind of freedom in the gospel, freedom from sin and the influence of the world the flesh, and the devil. The framers of the Constitution saw freedom in terms of freedom to worship God as you wish and in whatever cultural form. There is a bad kind of freedom that is in effect...

The trap has been obvious for a while now, with the timing of the court cases which could have been done 2 years ago. If they simply wanted Trump gone then he could have been in prison two years ago also for all his various crimes. Haley was the only credible internationalist candidate for the...

Where is the worship of the dragon and anti-God focus though in chatgpt It gives inaccurate religious answers because its programming demands it remains inoffensive but it is not exactly waging war against God and His people. Also, the biblical language is personal as if referring to an alive...

No one can see protons, they are inferred from indirect effects like tracks. The AI can collate information faster and check the mathematical viability of various theories faster and more consistently. But it does not see what it models and cannot test its conclusions. The best AI can do in...

That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Ecc 1:9 Except Solomon never knew anything about drones, aircraft cyber warfare, missiles and satellite surveillance - so I guess the guy was wrong in the...

To some extent this rests on Israel and specifically on Netanyahu. On the one hand this was a direct attack by Iran, for the first time. On the other hand it was a telegraphed nothing burger as BPPLee described it. The shift from attack via proxy to direct attack is a significant change and...

I am interested to see how the British laser interceptor works out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68795603 The recent Iranian attack on Israel shows that drones launched from too far a distance can be intercepted quite easily if you have full battlefield intelligence and visibility. I guess...

Europe is already rearming after decades of neglect partly because of Russia's aggression but partly also as a result of the threat of a Trump Whitehouse abandoning NATO. Russian conventional warfare seems quite clumsy and ineffective given the vast amounts of men and material available to...

China's general policy is to sit on the fence in all major conflicts and talk about sovereignty and peace. They have too much internal stuff for a war right now and have probably calculated this is not the best time to act. But the ambition to take Taiwan is still there and the support for...

He has a growing capability, he has a loose alliance with Russia and China. But he and his predecessors also have a reputation for spewing a lot of hot air. If I were China or Russia right now I would be worried about this loose cannon starting extra conflicts right now.

The BBC suggests that some of the attacks were launched from Yemen and Iraq. At the end of the day, this was a slow-motion humiliation for Iran as it appears 99% of their missiles/drones did not reach their target. It would have been more effective and cheaper to simply spit in Israel's...

Lesbian relationships are even more unstable than gay male ones. Women initiate 2/3rds of marriage breakups.

The actual pattern is that homosexual relationships are rarely stable enough to make a long-term commitment and only a fraction of those who do choose to adopt. So Mom and Dad remain the greater threat to someone insulting sexual choices.

There is much that is unbearable about the right but this is an issue where they have a winning advantage. Family-orientated politics appeals to states having children ´with functional families and the greatest influence on voting behavior remains one's family background. In the long run, the...

I wish that were so but the poll numbers indicate otherwise with Trump ahead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election