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91 Questions

Why is COVID-19 prompting such wide scale action versus other infectious diseases?

Why can't Northern Ireland just have a stay/leave referendum?

Has Trump ever explained why he, as incumbent President, is unable to stop the alleged electoral fraud?

Has Trump's administration ever explained why they didn't "build the wall" before the midterms?

Apparently many US voters think their candidate supports their politics even if they do not. Does this also apply to voters in other countries?

What happens if a country signs mutual defense treaties with several countries who later go to war with each other?

Can Northern Ireland's border issue be solved by repartition?

Why are other countries reacting negatively to Australia's decision to deploy nuclear submarines?

Why do most countries have so many members of parliament?

If grid parity has already been reached, why is it so expensive to switch to renewable energy?

Why are the Democrats & Republicans so homogeneous in their opinions of impeaching Trump?

Why are legal decisions in the US so politicized?

Has Russia explained why Ukraine can trust them, given the Budapest memorandum?

Why isn't the constitutionality of Trump's 2nd impeachment decided by the supreme court?

What's the difference between paying someone to kill another country's soldiers, and arming that someone to kill another country's soldiers?

Why would the Senate adopt such tiring impeachment trial rules?

Is there an explanation for why ~20% of Americans think the US's response to COVID-19 has been better than South Korea's?

How are the Polish, Czech and Slovenian PMs going to travel to Kyiv without getting harmed?

Why does the Senate work such odd hours for Trump's impeachment trial?

What are the disadvantages to 2-round elections where the top candidates from the first round compete head-to-head in the second round?

Has there been any country that successfully reversed a demographic decline?

Why don't the UK and EU agree to fish only in their territorial waters?

Why don't countries revoke an IS fighter's citizenship arguing they have become citizens of IS?

Why does Russia view missile defense as a strategic threat?

What stops one country from issuing another country's passports?

Why do people believe that if Putin ceases to be Russian president, the Russo-Ukraine war will cease?

How is it possible to travel to countries that don't recognize the issuing country of one's passport?

Why do news articles often refer to the leader as opposed to the country?

What are the consequences if a country decides to selectively cancel debt?

Why are the nationalists and unionists in Ireland & Northern Ireland OK with using violence?