@S83118579@KobeissiLetter California is more heavily regulated, that's true. Now if there was data showing more of the bankruptcies are happening in California comparative to other states, per capita income and overall number of businesses, that would support your argument.
@GarettJones@atlanticesque Braudel didn't need to read Marx to understand how stupid this argument is, he just needed the first chapter of "Wealth of Nations". Commodity production -> Market dependency -> Division of labor -> Economies of scale -> Consolidation.
Jordan operated as a key hub for executing the February 28 attack on Iran and also seemed to have specific detail on the type of operation it would be including the killing of Iranian leaders and attempts at regime change.
It would be more respectable to just own the conflict than attempting to deny the obvious or acting like an innocent bystander. This goes equally for the other GCC states that have been involved in the war.
@S83118579@KobeissiLetter U.S. has one of the lowest rates of unionization among developed nations and that hasn't been improving in the past decade. U.S. also has a revolving door of regulation where legalized bribery allows corporations to buy regulatory agencies.
@pplsartofwar@62T01BG No there was this disconnect between the government and the irgc during the Iran Iraq war as well. There's hard evidence for this but it's in Farsi.
@haixiaokane@JonathonPSine They were subsidiaries of two very destructive wars in the heart of the empire in Europe (which developed the culture of science).
They have a very anti-intellectual culture, their hegemony is by luck mostly and that's why it will not last as long as the ones which came before.
I got back from a Congressional fact-finding mission to Cuba. What I saw was a humanitarian crisis, the result of more than six decades of failed US policy.
We need to spread the word.
Buried deep in this article is a mention of the dozens of Iranians killed in recent U.S. strikes, but you won’t find any headlines about them in Western media.
The logic here is that the U.S. and Israel can bomb and kill people at will, and any retaliation will also be punished.
Iran’s missile & drone capacity has been massively underestimated. We knew that from the 40 Day War, the numbers and capabilities had been grossly underestimated, but after this week it should be clear to even the thickest observers in DC. And the IRI is still holding back.
The best decision for Trump, by several orders of magnitude, is to pay off Iran.
You’re requesting a $1.5T defense budget. Maybe $1T will do? Toss Iran that extra $500B, get us out of this war of choice, don’t torch the global economy, and don’t get MORE Americans killed.
Just a thought.