This is also done today, but more importantly: Why does it make anybody a cunt? Embassies are meant to promote one countries interest in another country. Military sales are certainly part of that. They do not seem to have bribed anybody or something like that, otherwise it would be part of the article.
This is not just economic, but also defense related. As in whoever supplies the jets, can withhold spare parts and ammunition deliveries. That obviously is strong leverage.
Obviously, but even within the next 25years according to this forecast China goes from having 4.1x the US population to 3.3x. In 50 years it would be 2.3x. Basically if this is somewhat right, then it is a possible strategy to contain China dimplomaticly and weaken its economy without going to war. As the odds improve for the US over time.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-with-un-projections?country=CHN~USA
This is how. Obviously Trump is really not helping.
Greenland?
Give weapons to Ukraine, sanction the Russian economy, move away from oil and gas…
The biggest problem is corruption. Things like racism or anti LGBT are used to blame minorities for the problems caused by that.
Have a look at Wirecard. It is absolutly insane.
Not being on the wrong side of history is propaganda for being a US ally. Being a US ally, pretty much means supporting Israel. There are cases, where Germany did not do what the US wanted. Namely Germany did not join in Iraq and well US propaganda ran exactly on that phrase.
However Scholz being horrible in foreign policy failed that and Merz supports Israel on moral grounds.
A big part for this to make sense is that Germany also helped Iraq with its missile program and Iraq launched missiles at Israel during the second Gulf War.
You read it wrong. They went from 2.9% market share to 5.9%. So the growth is 111%. More then doubling market share is exceptional growth.
Germany in general is not that attractive to economically successful foreigners. It as a country has high taxes and is expensive to live in. When you are already rich, then you rather have low taxes and a cheap country. Obviously still safe, but those are around as well.
For people from poor countries looking for better jobs, Germany is highly attractive. The pay and working conditions are usually fairly good. So no wonder more university graduates make their way to the country.
Also 1/4 migrants wanting to leave is surprisingly little. They are much more likely to leave anyway, as they have proven to be willing to move. There are good reasons to leave Germany as well. If from a poor country going home for cheaper living is a very viable option, especially for retirment. Migrants also are not that bound to the country, so moving somewhere else for an even better life is always an option. Obviously racism sucks, so yeah.
This is a combination of the oil lobby and car parts companies producing parts not needed for EVs. The later is already in a death spiral.
It is just working on producing the explosives for that bomb. Honestly it ends up being semantics, if not planning to finish something, but working towards that goal, is working towards that goal.
Iran is the only non nuclear weapon state to produce highly enriched uranium.
To run an nuclear reactor you need uranium enriched to 3-5%. The ONLY reason to enrich to above 20% in any sort of large quantities is to built nuclear weapons. The IAEA a UN agency has confirmed that Iran has produced uranium enriched to 60%.
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/25/06/gov2025-24.pdf
IAEA, which has confirmed 60% and above enriched uranium in Iran. There is no reason besides nuclear weapons to enrich uranium to that level. Nuclear reactors are mostly run on 3-5% enriched uranium and 20% is pretty high.
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/25/06/gov2025-24.pdf
By working on nuclear weapons Iran very much broke the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
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200 spies is a lot. MI6 has 3644 employees total, which obviously mostly are not in embassies.