The Soviets were about to invade the Japanese empire when the US dropped the atomic bombs. They did this just to prevent Japan from falling in USSR’s sphere of influence.

However, you might still be thankful as South Korea likely wouldn’t exist otherwise, being instead merely the agrarian South of a juche unified Korea.

But what about “seconhand smoke”, if I may call it that?

You’d be surprised at the mental gymnastics they can pull off.

If the new country refuses to assume the debt, creditors can hesitate to lend to it because they can expect that the same thing can happen again. It depends on their perception of the new government, or of its new constitution and laws.

The days of the US empire are over; and now begins the age of a new Chinese empire.

How is that going to protect us from the US?

Yea how does this even make economic sense?

Well, your solution works. But if you want to subdivide the season into neat and regular weeks, it’s not possible. So the next best thing is subdividing the year into weeks while disregarding the seasons.

Don’t subdivide the 73-day seasons.

Instead, subdivide the year into 73 5-day weeks.

A year made up of 5 seasons and 73 weeks.

Which is also why I hate that our calendar starts at year 1.

Not if you divide by 5. It gets you 73 days each.

Some parts of Japan, such as Hokkaido, can be considered to be colonized as its native people are the Ainus, not the Yamato people (the Japanese ethnicity).

The Yamato themselves didn’t didn’t exist for 40’000 years. It was during the 4th century BC to the 7th century CE that their main ancestors, the Yayoi and the Toraijin, migrated to Japan and displacd the Joumon people to the North. The latter had been in Japan for a much longer time.

The US is the one that has all the cards but it’s the EU that’s unfair? How does that work?

Sorry, I misread your comment.

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Also, they have excellent music.

Apart from Denmark. I know only one band from there.

It’s a gnome foot though.

Nice. In what year(s) did you have your first computer?

I understood the post you are replying to as saying “what will AfD voters do when their party is banned?”.

In the case of the Nazis, we don’t know because their party was never banned. We don’t know what would have happened if the Nazi party had been banned.

I would be interested to know if we have historical cases of far-right parties that could have won the elections but were banned before they had the chance.

A common threat forces people together.