@TheGreekRealm@itsweezie They analyzed the DNA of Palestinian Arabs. They compared the profiles to the profiles of the Jews who used to live there in 100 AD. Results came back as 90% match. Most current Jews? Usually hovered around 60% match.
@UBERSOY1 It's because Baltic states were physically no longer part of the early Soviet state (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the places where Baltic Germans actually lived in, were now their seperate countries), and the Great Russians running the Empire left in droves.
@JustisabelOz But why did they fall so quickly then? Visigothic nobles were a petty and vindictive bunch willing to betray each other to gain short term leverage.
@Umartheone2 There is no such thing as a "pure" race (unless you're Khoisan). Europeans themselves are a mix of Neolithic farmers and Yamnaya herders to varying degrees.
@MartinSellner_@TheGloriousLion And most of those were descendants of Spanish converts. Morocco is more Spanish than Spain is Moroccan on genetic level.
@SincereHyp44120@AnCap_Lukas Don't be distracted by their glittering palaces. Famines were extremely common even in the places with the most fertile soil in the world.
@vasalex93@lefroggo98437 Nah, at best it would look like Brazil or Argentina, with severe income and wealth inequality. Like, trillionaires in Rolls Royces while 25% are food insecure tier inequality.
@hafuma 3 different mothers is not doing anything to TFR. It might actually be hurting it purely because a guy getting three women is merely depriving the other two of women. Remember that TFR is calculated by "children per woman", not how many kids a single man has.
@posta_octavian Also, Social Democrats changed some of their politics and are now much more restrictive of immigration. That removed some appeal from the Sweden Democrats.
@jondotfreeman@RichardHanania Purchasing Power Parity essentially takes both the nominal GDP and the cost of goods and services. Russia's nominal GDP is only about 20k USD, but PPP is at 52k since the cost of goods and services is taken into account.