We will need a lot less oil in the future. Just one example: in my country the typical way to heat a house in winter was oil. We are now transitioning to heat pumps as fast as we possibly can. Another big consumer of oil are vehicles, which are also transitioning to electric. We will still import oil, of course, but much less. It’s not unreasonable to cut out one or two supplier countries if the demand halves.

The US defense spending is different to ours in that it is economically useful. In short, it enforces the petrodollar, thus forcing everyone to buy dollars, thus everyone pays for their inflation.

proudly independent

As a Swiss let me just clarify this: only old stupid nationalist idiots delude themselves to believe this. In reality we are completely dependent on our neighbours and the EU. We are a tiny country with a surprisingly large economy, which is exactly as strong as the trade we can do with EU countries and the highly skilled EU workers we can attract.

Internationally yes but in Switzerland it’s considered a large city, because it’s the 3rd largest, after Zürich and Genève, but before Lausanne and Bern (the capital)

The correct sense then. Thank you

Is liberal used here in the correct sense or in the USA sense? I can never tell which it is in English

You mean to say unicode empty character (zero width space, probably). ASCII doesn’t have one.

Corruption scandals are daily business in the Spanish governments

Er wird tatsächlich oft durch den Dativ ersetzt, besonders umgangssprachlich, aber “fast ausgestorben” ist maßlos übertrieben.

They will simply drop the matter

The NATO partners are doing everything they can to stroke the ego of the felon the USA chose as their president, because they have no choice.

Ukrainian has six, Croatian has seven, Hungarian has 727266278384982*10^100

Many languages do, German is not special

Übermorgen. It exists in English too but isn’t really used: overmorrow.

Good.

3.5mm jack?

It’s called speaking more than one language.

No need to backdoor encryption then

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