"Shouldn't" depends on the characters concerned. Traditionally, there was a lot of respect across parties, despite disagreements. Recently, not so much.

This probably works better if your local congressman and the president don't both think the other party is the spawn of Satan.

World War Z perhaps.

Carefully worded to leave the Ukrainian armed forces, in Ukraine, appearing to be the invaders.

A country can be both democratic and have a poor human rights record : treatment of Muslim communities in India would be a case at the moment.

There are obvious other reasons if railways can offer more comfort, better food, more local stations, less annoying security etc.

In English through most of the 20thC, Czar would be more acceptable than Kaiser (despite being the same word), because the Kaiser was the enemy in one unfortunate episode, but the Czar was just some poor tyrant who ran into a bit of trouble with the Bolsheviks. Likewise there were no German Shepherd dogs when I was young, but lots of Alsatians.

Indeed you might argue that "To Hell with (X)" is far more severe (or offensive) than simply "Death to (X)" and yet it has common currency in Western culture.

@Obie, yes (minimum wage can drive down wages), and no, per note 1, the need for a minimum wage arises when the unions have already lost power.

@JoeW I think the argument is, in Denmark, a minimum wage would lead to lowering some wages because it would become legal to pay the minimum. Possibly not an argument that would occur to someone used to America.

I think Al Qaeda, in the form of AQAP in Yemen, do pursue territorial control; I'm not sure if they persecute civilians to that end or if their actions rank as "military ops".

@llama good point, but they would need to be somewhere with more oil for that...

@Readin Currently : not a lot. Historically : gave Lithuania some experience of involuntary rule imposed from outside, and perhaps some sympathy for a country facing a similar situation.

Lithuania and Taiwan have something pretty obvious in common ... a powerful neighbour with a tendency to want to annex them...

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This would be more plausible if his luxurious lifestyle and personal well being weren't quite so dramatically opposed.

@Dai I'd argue it's both. Ideologically they support the proposition that government doesn't work; this policy helps ensure it doesn't.

Best illustrated in the historically accurate documentary, "Carry On Up the Khyber".