Who gets to decide what “actual crimes” are and what aren’t? For instance in Germany for good reason hate speech is forbidden and in rare cases can put you in prison. By US standards inconceivable. Meanwhile in the US people are coerced into plea deals for crimes they didnt commit, or get mandatory minimum sentences for drug posession in small quantities.

As with the inflation in many EU countries, the goods actually making up most daily purchases had prices increase much more severely.

140k people is about the amount of people living in a 1km radius around you, if you live in some inner city area.

Yes it might happen either way. Still not something to gamble lightheartedly. You think in 1914 anyone thought to escalate into a World War over some crown prince being shot in the Balkans?

Escalations always have a risk of running out of control quickly.

It was a mistake not to supply Ukraine with the weapons they needed early on. But as we see now with NK troops, it is considered a major escalation by everyone. Also problem is that at some point war is not about any larger objectives anymore. It boils down to “you killed my comrade, ill kill yours in retaliation”

And in functioning democracies this well result in a report known to parliament where it gets exposed. You cannot and should not have the executive do things “quietly” in a democracy. Mostly for better, in rare cases for worse.

It is both. Increase the costs of doing business -> price goes up and demand goes down. BotH local customers and external company loose.

This can be sensible if you need to protect a small economy so that the customers profit from having work and businesses grow to become competitive. E.g. all the industrialized nations had protectionist measure to indistrialize and then pushing “free trade” after was a ploy to keep emerging economies down and their natural ressources easily exploitable.

Between two industrialized (or post industrial) economies this does not make sense.

And i hope your choice gets respected as it is your choice. The same should apply to the people whose personal effects have been robbed from their graves.

When looking at places like the British National Museum and when we look at many other Museums created at the height of Imperialism they were definetely signs of power over any scientific purpose.

It is the ultimate power move to get away with robbing artifacts from all over the world and putting them on display in your capital. And then having the audacity to claim to “take care of them” for your “underdeveloped” people wouldnt know how to handle your own culture.

I for sure dont want anyone to unbury me, steal my last personal effects to put on display and toss by remains in some cooler waiting further analysis.

That shouldnt matter. It remains an arbitrary decision by the living, who have no way of calling in the opinion of the deceased.

When coming across a burial site while doing archeological digging just restore it and move on.

The dignity of a human doesnt go away because people think his culture doesnt exist anymore.

For Boeing it is absolutely known to be malice. They don’t “fail” to hold the engineers accountable. They push out the engineers that want to follow safety protocols and it is well documented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc

While often better than in the US, you shouldn’t overestimate the state of democracy in other countries.

A lot of the far right parties in Europe are successfully copying the polarization tactics from the US.

So will the return of the flag conclude the adventures of ressource usage in computers?