Odds are that there will be sufficient taxes and additional fees added to the gasoline prices and ICE that will make joyrides like that a luxury of the rich as well.

Decreasing by 90% does not yeild 1000% in longevity. At best fuel will last 120 years if your number is correct.

Unless there’s a new supply of fuel to be found... I doubt gas will be plentiful. It is a diminishing resource

Its a Phoenix. The article is misleading until you read the final few lines.

Motion pictures were not invented in the US, nor arguably was the TV which was started by a German (CRTs are also known as Braun tubes) and used by a Russian to draw geometric shapes on a screen.

Not even most. There’s a pretty big demographic who looks at the hate spewing from the right and deciding he’s wrong.

The US has more permanent bases than anyone else in NATO. The US more carriers than anyone else in NATO. The US spends more on defense and has a lower standard of living than many members of NATO. Given that, how do you propose to fix the issue?

So you deny the presence of bases strewn across Europe operated by the US?

I’m more than aware of that.. But most of what you said is based on military tradition. Why does each branch need their own pilots? There’s nothing that naval aviators do that couldn’t be counted on as part of the air force, same for air cavalry. Why do the marines have their own air force, land force and navy and…

That’s the point. Why does the US need force projection? You’re the only country that operates military bases outside of your nation that aren’t in warzones. Do you really need 4 distinct military branches with overlapping capabilities?

The US has never been a pacifist - they were isolationist, which is different. Returning to that level of state diplomacy is unrealistic - but shuttering a few of the bases and slashing funding by 50% would still allow the US to have an effective offense force while putting pressure on allies to carry their own…

It is an easy choice to make when the US insists on spending the large amount of amount of their budget on defense. Cut spending to focus on a less imperialistic worldview and you’ll see the world step up.

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are…

Why should anyone do anything when the US has more assets and a bigger budget than the next three countries combined?

You’re comparing a recent change of a few years by a faction leader to millennia of societal repulsion? Keep in mind, there are night elves alive now who were part of the War of the Ancients - they saw what happened by the use of fel magic and the ruination it brought their people. A fact reinforced by Illidan and the…

The difference is that the rest of the races merely disprove of warlocks - Night Elves would regard them as criminals and traitors.

Do you forget Xavius and the satyrs? And the difference between a mage and a warlock is the source of their knowledge. By the time that the Highborn fell, their mage leaders were functionally warlocks - twisted by sargaras’ influence.

Except night elves only recently became mortal so many of them remember the fall of Azshara - personally. And embracing warlocks would mean forgivng Illidan, since his crime was not just embracing fel magic but using it. If they did, odds are the druid circle would abandon them too.

A Night Elf warlock would be hunted down - Night Elves HATE the Burning Legion and want nothing to do with the fel magics. Remember that Azshara’s ilk were Warlocks.

An airframe is not like a car body... cars have much higher stress tolerances and if the frame falls apart, you won’t plummet to tens of thousands of feet at ~300-600mph.