u/Aux

Military losses are not deaths. Deaths are only a fraction of losses.

Cash is a piece of shit. And you don't have to carry a phone, you can pay with your watch or a ring. And even a phone is much better than carrying cash.

That sounds great, what's your problem?

No one needs cash.

What's wrong with your dad if he can't use a smart phone being almost 60?

Transaction fees are already lower than cash handling.

I've never said that.

Yet.

Money is the credit mechanism originally (and still is in most developed countries). Coins and paper bills are IOUs from the central bank or the government, which will be exchanged for gold on request. Even though most countries moved away from the gold standard.

They elected Netanyahu in a democratic way. Israeli citizens have zero empathy from me.

By comparison with US in general Europe is living in communist utopia :)

What's funny is that the French government is not "left-wing".

Russia never traded much with US. So it's business as usual.

Most electronics are imported from China, not from US. No one will be sending iPhones from China to US and then to the rest of the world.

And that's how you end up in Guantanamo.

Trade IS happening with Russia. Only specific companies and industries are sanctioned, everything else is business as usual.

Sanctions doesn't mean you can't trade with a sanctioned country. The US never stopped trading with Russia.

The Kremlin is confident that they will kill as many protesters as will be required to destroy any uprising.

They can flood the Baltics with drones and cause plenty of chaos and destruction.

Our eggs are too good for the US anyway: not bleached and can be safely eaten raw.