Iran really does not have a choice. They can not seriously attack Israel. Their missile launchers seem to be destroyed and they hit very little. Air force is not an option either. Hamaz is at war already, Hezbollah has been bombed hard and can hardly fight, much less supplied.

They could bomb some US military installations, but best case they kill some Americans.

Blocking the Persian Golf would fail as well and piss of pretty much the rest of the world.

So ending it is a good option.

Nope, right wing bullshit repackaged to be attractive to young men, who want sex. Basically the idea is to naturalize hierachy in male groups, while at the same time isolating them socialy. When you try to dominate others, they usually do not like that and lets be clear most guys want to be the dominant kind in that kind of system. The funny part being that women also usually do not like it. There is a reason half the influencers in these sort of communities end up having to pay for women or just rape.

Kagan voted for it. Useless Democrats

It is a modified version of Mastodon, with a Soapbox front end. It does not have ActivityPub enabled and lacks a bunch of features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software

Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.

That is the reason they used to create them, but municipalities do have the right to create 30km/h zones in any residential area they choose, as long as it is not a major road.

Also closing it means Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain have a massive shipping problem, which would really threaten those countries in such a massive way, that it could be seen as an attack on them. Not to mention that oil is shipped to countries all around the world. Basically everybody who is not an oil exporter is going to hate them for doing it.

Also Iran needs to ship oil via the straight as well. Starting some conflict around it, would really hurt their income.

I would go with Thiel and Vance.

A pastor? Never heared of “Thou shalt not kill”?

Guy is called Carlos Ghosn.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57760993

Renault does not have sales in the US. They do have a partnership with Nissan, but that has faced some issues, ever since the CEO who organized that cooperation became an international fugitive, by flying out of Japan in an audio equipment box to not be trialed for stealing money.

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.