As someone currently on trial for fraud you’d think he’d not be framing himself as the person in the wrong.

I know nothing of the Swedish political spectrum. Are they as bad as you suggest?

Oh great. China to Europe route.

What’s the worst that can happen?

…but given the part that the WHO played, does giving them global “emergency powers” sound like a good course of action?

it needs it to control the oil exports and international trade that passes through the region.

Does it?

It wants to control it, but it’s megalomaniacal to NEED to control it. The US does not govern the world. Israel could fall, and the world would live on. Trade would continue. Oil would still be sold.

Supporting Ukraine is far more important than supporting Israel IMHO. Israel needs no support. The civilians of Gaza are the people needing support in that conflict.

It’s actually a fair point. Bullets move in straight lines. Liquids splatter and drip. The painting might not be safe from all directions.

I’d actually say the reverse.

Our collective learning, as captured in our literature and art, is unique. It’s the result of countless human lives. It is what would allow us to rebuild a society after a nuclear war.

Populations are replaceable. As long as enough people survive, the population will recover. On an individual level, of course, each person is unique but most are unremarkable.

You may find what I’m saying abhorrent, but for the potential success of any post-nuclear society I think it’s more important that knowledge and culture survive than individuals.

A moose once licked my sister.

Ethiopia is land locked

That figure stems from a study published in the Nature scientific journal in 2021 which reported an 11 percent increase in the mortality rate, linked to its prescription against COVID-19, because of the potential adverse effects like heart rhythm disorders, and its use instead of other effective treatments.

So I think what they are reporting is an estimate of people who died of COVID whilst taking this stuff and so did not undertake other forms of treatment.

I don’t think they are saying that most of these people died as a direct result of taking the drug. (e.g. overdosing)., despite what the headline suggests.

and said it would ensure Ethiopia has “access to the sea for their naval forces”.

You get sea access and your first thought is to use it for a non existent navy?

TRADE! Ethiopia needs earn money, not fight wars.

The US doesn’t have a great track record of “not supporting distopian regimes”. They’ve either installed leaders with a dictatorial bent when the elected government wasn’t doing what they wanted, or just supported their puppet in the area even though they did horrific things. Generally they think “the end justifies the means”.

Apart from WW2, I can’t think of any major foreign operation that Americans were involved with that hasn’t blown up in their face sooner or later.

Certainly a war crime. Yes.

Those are all war crimes by today’s standards. We looked at what we’d done and realised it was wrong.

No, it’s because he’s a Conservative MP