Ireland runs a budget surplus and has the lowest debt since the financial crisis. They’ve never been better placed to take on this project.

South-East England even

Nobody’s forcing farmers to buy seeds. Seed sellers are asking farmers to pay if they want their seeds.

Farmers could grow their own seeds and use those. It’s just that nobody does because buying highly productive cultivars is more profitable for them, even after they’ve shared that extra income with seed producers.

Russians don’t really use motherland. Rodina, which means birth-land, is translated that way because there’s no simple English term to convey that

It was a very good system. Collecting it’s own fees added a degree of separation between government and public broadcaster and protected it’s independence.

The European model used to be empowering the public broadcaster to collect a TV licensing fee, but is now moving to direct tax payer subsidy because internet streaming made that too easy to circumvent

Finland

Norway, not Finland. Women have a duty to serve but so few are called up that it’s kind of voluntary in practice.

On the other hand, China had access to those resources already, and are now much more exposed internationally, as evidenced by recent Western efforts to “de-risk” economic relations.

India are making a lot of money but they’ve also lost their main weapons supplier and are now forced to turn to Western countries to fill the gap. A position they most definitely didn’t want to be in.

It isn’t good news for Russia either.

I predict they will do well. They’ll get sympathy votes from their supporters, and there’s nothing their enemies can do to stop it

Berlin can be good value once you’re settled. The problem is usually finding a decent apartment, not paying for it.

We’ve always liked the Swedish Labor movement. They stood with us against the King when we wanted independence.

Norwegian dock workers refuse to help Tesla bypass Swedish strikers, so not completely alone

We do our best to limit damage under the assumption that nearly everyone should be allowed a licence and a car, that’s not the same. A small share of drivers are responsible for the majority of fatalities, and while some of these drivers are obscure until they kill someone, many have offenses, lose their licences but are allowed back on the roads because we see the right to drive a car as sacred

I’m not? Just the “Far-Right antisemitic dangers to democracy” in the movement

Islamists and the hard right can both be bad at the same time

What happens when Islamic Jihad shoves rifles into the hands of 15-year olds and points them at the Germans? When the images of dead kids are posted all over the net? Will that be in the German National Interest? Or when Netanyahu slips in a couple of hundred armed settlers? Will the Germans evict those Jews by force? Will that event be in the German National Interest?

If everyone in Israel and Palestine could be relied upon to act rationally and in good faith, such a mission could be a tremendous success, I agree. But if everyone in Israel and Palestine could be relied upon to act rationally and in good faith, it wouldn’t be needed.

What could actually work is Germany, or more generally speaking a EU contingent under German command

Why would Germany and the EU ever agree to this? What they get is an impossible mission in a deeply troubled area and all the blame for every ill that will ever befall it in the future.

Turkey would be doubleplus nonhappy about developments in Cyprus and the Aegean after they leave

Agriculture too. We’d have to massively cut tariffs and subsidies and very few farms would survive the transition.