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What is the answer of Coal and Steel / EU based security framework regarding Russia
It is postulated many times that the EU was created to prevent a war between large countries of Europe and was successful in doing so:
The European Coal and Steel Community which is designed ...
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Downsides to, or pitfalls of legislation that produces a permanent end to government shutdown threats in the US?
Politico's September 22, 2023 Senators seek to stop shutdowns forever, after McCarthy’s spending stumbles describes several early discussions, but doesn't address the implications. For example, one ...
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Is there a historical precedent for an official in China being removed due to an extramarital affair?
On 11 July 2023, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin
announced that Qin would not be attending the ASEAN foreign ministers
meetings held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 13 and 14 July due to ...
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Why does China not consider itself to be a member of the G77 while the G77 itself lists China as one of its members?
The Group of 77 lists China as one of its members.[14] The Chinese
government provides consistent political support to the G77 and has
made financial contributions to the Group since 1994, but it does ...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
In the United States, almost 110,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, apparently driven largely by fentanyl.
I don't know the biology of it, but it occurs to me that surely something helpful ...
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What divisive issues are least correlated with political alignment (e.g. whether you're on the left/right)?
Inspired by this reddit post that shows that ones opinion on AI-generated art/text is basically independent of whether one is a Democrat, Independent, or Republican.
My question is: what big issues ...
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Can sea level rises potentially impact territorial dispute claims?
Can sea level rises potentially impact territorial dispute claims, particularly in areas where maritime boundaries are defined by coastlines or specific geographical features?
Due to global warming, ...
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How did the shooting down of the Russian jet by Turkish forces affect the relationship between Russia and Turkey?
A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M Fencer Bomber near the Syria–Turkey border on 24 November 2015.
There was the immediate and as expected angry reaction from the ...
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Exit strategies for the Ukraine war
[Remark three months later, Aug 24, 2022: The question seems as pressing as ever. The conflict has indeed turned into a text book war of attrition, with neither side being able to make a decisive move....
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Is there any accountability for the money the US provides for the war in Ukraine?
While Zelensky is in the US asking for more funds to support the war in Ukraine I read on the media that there was some debate whether it is worth or not to keep funding them. I got the feeling that ...
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Why is Hungary an EU member but Turkey isn't? [closed]
I was checking the web and saw a blog about why Turkey isn't a part of the EU.
Some points were pretty striking and almost racist/Islamophobic, like:
Religion
Having a predominantly Muslim population ...
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What were the stated goals/job of the Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh?
PM Pashinian blamed the recent success of the Azerbaijani offensive on the failure of Russian peacekeepers.
On Thursday, in a televised address, the Armenian Prime Minister accused Russia, a ...
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Is fiscal responsibility more difficult to practice in China since most of the spending is done by local governments? [closed]
Local government debt reached 92 trillion yuan ($12.8 trillion), or 76% of economic output in 2022, up from 62.2% in 2019. Part of it is
debt issued by local government finance vehicles (LGFVs), which ...
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Was the U.S. surprised about the Huawei breakthrough, how much time did the government or think-tanks expect China to take to produce a 7nm chip?
With its export controls last year, the US administration tried to
draw a line at preventing China from getting access to 14nm chips, or
about eight years behind the most advanced technology. The US ...
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What country has the most favorable status of forces agreement with the United States? [closed]
In many host nations, especially those with a large foreign military
presence such as South Korea and Japan, the SOFA can become a major
political issue following crimes allegedly committed by
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1kFbUmUy0
The video describes the U.S. detecting an alleged spy balloon and a U.S. general claiming that the balloon was a spy balloon, but that it did not send any ...
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Why does the US CBP require airlines to have some US Customs Visa Waiver Agreement to be allowed to transporting passengers to the US who rely on it?
I read on https://simpleflying.com/philippine-airlines-us-visa-waiver-carrier-agreement-expires/:
Philippine Airlines' US Customs Visa Waiver Agreement has expired, preventing them from transporting ...
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Who are all of the "Democrats in Menendez’s chamber" and for that matter, what exactly is a "chamber" in this context?
CNN's September 23, 2023 Rep. Andy Kim announces he’ll run against NJ Sen. Bob Menendez in wake of his indictment includes the following passage:
Many New Jersey Democrats swiftly called for the ...
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Is there a way to measure systemic risk in a country, and if so which countries have the highest level of systemic risk?
The risk of counterparty default or counterparty credit risk rises to
the level of systemic risk in three scenarios. First, systemic risk
arises when the failure of a market participant with a robust
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Why do some people support Russia's war in Ukraine?
The Economist Intelligence Unit reported in March that some 33% of the world's population live in countries that support Russia in their war with Ukraine, and another 30% live in countries that are ...
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Does Singapore coordinate the censorship of the internet and traditional media, and how?
The MDA requires importers to "ensure that the publications/ audio
materials brought in for distribution do not feature content which
could be considered objectionable on moral, racial or ...
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Does the EU mitigate for circumstances where an EU member doesn't have an embassy with another EU country?
Map of countries host to a Portuguese Diplomatic mission (Portugal is shown in dark green) (Source: Wikipedia)
I noticed Portugal doesn't have embassies with certain EU countries, so I was wondering ...
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How does the US justify its relationship with Saudi Arabia?
How does the US justify its relationship with Saudi Arabia when half its population are in essence property i.e. slaves (women). Besides the oil, and if that is all how do we in the US reconcile our ...
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How do radical ecologists and anarchist communists tackle the issue of other countries military imperialism?
Radical ecologism (Jacques Ellul, André Gorz, Ivan Illich) and left anarchism (Bakunin, Guy Debord) advocate for the disparition of the state, in favor of little communes, living peacefully, sharing ...
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What is the status of the Zangezur corridor after Artsakh capitulation?
According to Azerbaijan and Turkey, in the ceasefire agreements of the 2020 war of Azerbaijan against Artsakh, Armenia had allow a land corridor to Nakhichevan, a so called Zangezur corridor. What is ...
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Is there any African country that actively express disagreement or resistance against Wagner?
Besides, Wagner’s principal sell in Africa has become its praetorian
guard service for authoritarian regimes as well as elected governments
— like in the Central African Republic (CAR). There, Wagner ...
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Does Russia still need Prigozhin to manage and lead Wagner? [closed]
According to the Financial Times, the Wagner Group does not exist as a
single incorporated entity, but instead as a "sprawling network of
interacting companies with varying degrees of proximity ...
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What is the motivation for the merceneries to join Prigozhin's Wagner PMC? [closed]
I read that Wagner PMC recruits criminals from Russian prisons to fight in Ukraine and pays as much as US$14,000 monthly. However, they have no or minimal training in combat and are practically being ...
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What is the 'alt-right'?
Recently Clinton gave a speech that the majority of Trump supporters were young tech-savvy enthusiastic radically right-wing individuals who have taken over the Republican party from mainstream ...
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What are the political implications of Prigozhin going to Belarus knowing that Russia recently placed nuclear weapons in Belarus?
Prigozhin just went to Moscow and at a mere 200km distance he turned around and is now reportedly on the way to Belarus. Given the situation, this may, at least temporarily, bring a solution to a ...
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How has the current ideology of the Democrats and Republicans contributed to the increased political polarization in the US? [closed]
Why has the U.S. become so much more polarized? Shapiro said it may be
partly because, since the 1970s, major political parties have become
increasingly aligned with certain ideologies, races and ...
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Why do governments provide a tax discount for married couples who don't have children?
It's perfectly clear to me why the government would provide tax discounts for having children: today's kids are future taxpayers and society wants to incentivize having more of them when birth rates ...
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What caused the deterioration of relations between Poland and Ukraine?
My source is the BBC World News, but in short Poland had recently stopped supplying Ukraine with weapons/wartime aid. According to the report, there was a disagreement regarding cheap grain prices ...
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Are there Western double standards for international relations? [closed]
Russian diplomats often bring attention to the "West" often using double standards in the political evaluation of conflict.
As an example Crimea:
The 1974 Comorian independence referendum ...
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Through what channels does China communicate with business people like Elon Musk?
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/chinas-ccp-warns-elon-musk-against-sharing-wuhan-lab-leak-report.html
Chinese state-run media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he was risking
his relationship with ...
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If authoritarian regimes are so bad, why do we see so many of them?
This is my first question here... If authoritarian regimes are so bad, why do we see so many of them? I don't understand why they are so prevalent in the world. It can't be because people are gullible ...
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Why disappear government Ministers and army officials? [closed]
So recently two Chinese Government Ministers and a few high ranking PLA officers have gone missing.
China's Defense minister Li Shangfu, been missing since late August. Initially said to be a health ...
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Which international lenders have the most stringiest requirements for feasibility studies when providing infrastructure loans?
"Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Indonesia Face Fresh Delays", 8
April 2021
On March 23, the Indonesian news magazine Tempo reported that the
Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Rail project, one ...
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Has there ever been an attempt to charge Israel, or its officials, with a war crime for changing the demography of the occupied Palestinian West Bank?
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, changing the demographic composition of an occupied territory is considered a violation of international humanitarian law and classified as a war crime.
The ...
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Which 2024 Republican candidates oppose a 6-week state-level abortion ban?
Former President Donald Trump said this on Meet the Press today:
I mean, DeSanctus was willing to sign a 5 week and 6 week ban…. I think what he did was a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.
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What is the meaning of “qualified connection” in Federalist No. 51 by James Madison?
In the sixth paragraph of Federalist No.51, James Madison wrote,
But it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority ...
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Are there any mass primitivist societies (i.e. population over a thousand people) that currently exist?
I know there are small communes and primitivist societies out there, but are there any primitivist societies in the modern world with a population of over one thousand people? Large uncontacted tribes ...
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Transcript of discussion between Elon Musk and Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu on 18 Sep 2023?
Is there a publicly available transcript of the discussion that took place between Elon Musk and Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu in Los Angeles on 18 September 2023?
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Have making worker standards part of trade deals been tried?
From an article linked here, comments seem fairly unhappy with immigrants asking for rights as residency. Comments saying they should go back, no one invited them, baffled how they got to the country ...
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Is support for the far right unusually low in Lithuania (compared to its neighbors) and if so why?
The Economist (2023-09-14):
Support for nationalist or far-right parties:
Lithuania <1%
Poland >40%
Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia (and many other countries): 20-30%
The above map suggests ...
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Are there developed countries that refused to make any net-zero commitment?
Last year, climate action was all about declaring dates for achieving
net-zero carbon emissions. At the 2021 UN’s climate change conference
in Glasgow, COP26, India pledged that it would reach net-...
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Is this quote from Adam Curtis, suggesting modern politics lacks alternative models, accurate? [closed]
I recently read this interview with documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis about his most recent work, Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone. After discussing the series, the interviewer moves on to parallels with ...
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Was it up to individual judgement to trade not at par different labour notes in Modern Times?
During his experiment in Cincinnati Warren distinguished different types of labour:
Adjustments were made for the difficulty and disagreeableness of the work performed, so that time was not the only ...
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Are the Indian government, politicians, and patriots more vocal against Pakistan rather than China?
I have a feeling that the Indian government, national institutions, and politicians, in general, are more vocal in the case of anti-Pakistan rhetoric, rather than anti-china rhetoric.
For instance, ...
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What are the politics of Steven Pinker? [closed]
What are the politics of Steven Pinker?
I have not heard or read a statement from him in which he describes the political theory to which he adheres.
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