It's difficult to quantify, but I think there is a compelling argument to be made - just off of my head, WW2 led to:

• the fall of German autocracy/restoration of German democracy (though Hitler did kinda break that one in the first place)
• Italian and Japanese democracy
• redistribution of wealth/power in Britain
• the 4th french republic
• alignment of the European democracies
• establishment of the UN

It's crazy that this isn't even the first comment I've seen this week arguing that the Ukraine war is somehow a conspiracy by the West to sell more weapons, as if Russia didn't just roll up and invade them, illegally and unprovoked

That's the maximum non-custodial sentence

Two important persons from US history, a deity and a little penguin

It's just a shitpost, not a declaration that Trump was some great American historical figure, chill

That's not actually a viable solution though, in the same way as "deleting Germany" wasn't a viable resolution to the second world war.

Their citizens won't just magically disappear, forcibly displacing them would constitute a war crime, and transferring ownership of the entire region to a Palestinian state is just setting up the dominoes for civil war and extending the instability and suffering in the region.

My last job had not one, but two programming languages they had created in house over the last couple of decades.

One of them was the primary development language for the whole corporation.

While this is still a big number, Russia's oil revenue both from the EU and in total has been massively reduced.

I think it's hard to argue reducing dependency on resources from a frequently hostile country is "harming themselves", especially since Russia has intentionally interrupted supply as leverage.

Tell me you didn't even read the summary without telling me

The move created swift backlash from Zionists and Israeli leaders, who criticized Ben & Jerry’s and accused the company of being antisemitic

But they can use that to secure cheap debt, and use those investments as effective capital.

The fact it isn't technically money in a bank account doesn't really matter, because it can be leveraged as if it were

But they can't extend it longer than the shortest ads, since then it'll affect users after they watch ads too, which kinda defeats the point

My brain runs arch btw