Growth? In my experience Germany has cycling infrastructure in nearly all reasonable places already. The problem is mainly quality, which is varying, with some truely horrible examples.

Spain does a good job in public transit and cities like Barcelona work hard on keeping cars out.

Australia moves in the right direction. Although from a very low level.

For your average Trump support they are the same thing.

The tools are roughly the same, however the key difference is the position. With the fall of the Soviet Union Russia became nearly a regional power, which is trying to become a great power and hopes to be a super power again. The US ended up being the remaining super power and mostly controlled the world. So the US does not have a massive plan for world domination, because it already is pretty much in that position.

You can see that with China. The US was very interested of integrating China in its global economic system. However now it is starting to take over, so we see trade wars and things like the Muslims.

Similar situation in the Middle East. The US used to import a lot of oil, so low oil prices were important. At the same time oil is traded in dollars, which as everybody needs oil, creates a lot of demand for the dollar. The US can just print more, which is pretty much free money. However the Middle East is the clear main source of oil, so to make sure those countries do not sell in another currency, the US has to show strength. Hence taking out Iraq. Nowadays the US is an oil exporter. So it is much happier to take out the competition. That happened in Venezuela, Russia and now Iran. Keeps up the oil price, which helps the US economy.

However those are all reactions to events, rather then some grand strategy. The US just wants to keep its position in the world.

Stop it! The Chinese parade did not have ads!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design

Doubt the Israel plan. Syria and Sudan are pretty good places to show morality is relative. At least with some propaganda.

The problem is that an end of the war means thousands of unemployed men with actual war experience running around in Russia. If Putin can not show what he gained in the last two years, during which a lot of those men lost their friends and maybe family, those men might get some ideas. Wagner marched on Moscow after all.

So Putin just gambles that the West gives up on Ukraine. That is the only way he can actually show something.

Leopard1 is a German tank although an old one. So maintaing them is entirly possible for Germany. The idea is probably to trade them for some other tanks, which can be send to Ukraine. The Leopard2 line is at capacity for the next couple years and there is no other tank being activly produced in the EU right now. The only other option is the K2 production in Poland, but that is a South Korean tank design and they do not want their weapons in Ukraine either. Lots of Europeans have asked. The Leclerc production line is still around, but currently closed.

The map is from 2019. A newer one can be found here: https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-tracker/tracker/

Is this what Peak Oil looks like?

No, just corruption. In case of peak oil, they would support alternatives as well.

This is fossil fuel propaganda. The EU has the ETS, which this is refering to. It is covering industrial, electricity generation, aviation and a few other sectors for years. A few years ago they passed the law for an additional scheme ETS2 for home heating and petrol.

The new part is using the money from ETCS2 to finance the EU rather then the members.

I am just paraphrasing the article. Looking up their IEA source they use for 2021 shows some newer data. I would have thought FT was better then that. But it is using 2024 73% renewables and another 8% nuclear. Coal made up 7.2%

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2025/electricity

Over half of the growth of electricity consumption was meet by renewables.

Come on it is not a war, but a special military operation…

I usually would eat at 12:00 and then dinner at 18:00. That often changes, but that would be the norm.

Also hot weather means you eat later. You can see that comparing say Germany and Italy.

Never said that Trump supporters would switch sites. I said that Vance is less popular, which means less likely to get as many people to activly vote for him.

A power vacuum in Iran would have a good chance of ending the civil war in Sudan. So I believe the odds are pretty good,especially if it is a short one.

Every Iraeli and Palestinian has experienced violence from the other site. Clearly Israel is occupying the West Bank and not the other was around, but it would be foolish of me to presume that the Israeli left loves Palestinians. Thankfully they do not need to, but just need to make a deal. Without shooting at each other relations will improve. Obviously the right is independent of Natanyahu, but current polls still show them loosing power.

Clearly shows that developing countries can and should go renewable.

There are actually some differences here. After the Cold War ended Israel was making some peace deals. The Oslo Accords(1993 and 1995) and a deal with Jordan 1994 were big parts of that. In 1996 Netanyahu came to power and basically all of that stopped. There was a bit with Ariel Sharon being in power, when Israel gave up its settlement in the Gaza strip. Netanyahu was not prime minister all the time, but he was in government and more often then not in position to sabotage that. The only time he failed was Ariel Sharon ordering to close the Jewish settlements in Gaza. He is really the main reason there is no somewhat working two state solution today.

Trump currently sents billions of aid to Israel to commit genocide AND fight a war within Iran. So yes he is that president. Biden at least used the US military to send some food to Gaza, Trump stopped that.

Khamenei is the leader of Iran since 1989. He is hardly innocent of supporting the Assad clan, destroying democracy in Lebanon by supporting Hezbollah, massive war crimes in Sudan happening right now, with the biggest starvation crisis in the world, although not as hard as Gaza, the huge civil war in Yemen and so forth. Keep in mind that before the Iranian revolution Israel and Iran were very close allies. They even developed fighter jets together. Point is that both countries are not natural enemies.

At least two of those men have formed their respective countries and systems for decades. If you killed Netanyahu today, then it would mean a new election and likely a win for the liberals, which is usually good news for Palastinians. If you killed Khamenei today, then there is a pretty good chance, that the infighting would end the Islamic Republic. Iran has had some massive protests in the last couple years. If you kill Trump, then the Vance ends up president and he lacks the charisma of Trump and is not even directly elected.