Nah, it's the Middle East. "America" is reason enough to be embarrassed about it.

There probably should be a carveout for that.

Wow, I wouldn't be surprised by little connection or uneven, but none?

I'm guessing the important police work is carried out far from the local level with programs targeting organised crime and similar. Apparently the local guys write tickets and that's it. I would have at least expected they'd help by showing up to drunken brawls before they escalate, but apparently not.

Yeah, it's a believe it when you see it thing at this point. They might stagnate out economically or have internal supply issues, but there's a world of difference between that and actual regime instability.

Case in point: Zimbabwe is still run by largely the same group of guys that ordered the 100-trillion dollar bills made.

Messed up, but not really surprising. All the people evangelical churches send to Africa have made an impact.

I second this one. CBT is the current scientific golden standard for when you're your own enemy in general.

Yet another broken immigration thing.

That's neat (the cultural part, sorry you got teased so much). I guess America creates enough butthurt for the whole continent, amiright? :P

Do Mexicans even know how to be offended, or is it a foreign concept completely? You guys like Speedy Gonzales.

I feel like a mathematician would go a step further and not even assume a specific geometry. Maybe a human is just a subset of points in a measure space, with a measure fixed at 1 human-unit.

It won't be a game changer, I'm afraid. It will basically enable them to keep doing the same thing sustainably, but F-16s still have a shortage of range compared to top Russian jets and can't fight back when they show up. Gripens might be a bigger deal, but Turkey isn't letting the Swedes into NATO yet.

For 2024, if the war ends, it will be thanks to the Russians giving up or politically imploding.

Particularly disease-carrying mosquitos have been assessed to be unimportant to ecosystems. Although, it's worth noting that outside of those few species, they don't primarily feed on blood, but rather nectar. They take blood once during their reproductive cycle.