This is precisely why I choose to travel to countries where, for either cultural or climatic reasons, it is customary to have more skin covered.

You can isolate the networks that are part of the Internet by switching off the submarine communication cables. They are considered a military asset by the countries and defended as such.

Inflation in the West is correlated to de-dollarization happening worldwide

It really depends on the context. If people are finally getting offended by White Supremacists when they weren’t before, that’s a positive development.

That said, with the world feeling like it’s on the brink of World War 3, I guess it’s normal to be on edge.

To feel better, the usual advice stands: drink less coffee and more tea, go for more long walks (music optional), and spend less time online.

European capitalism, particularly from the 16th century onward, was not a simple market economy. It was mercantile capitalism, a system where the state and private capital became fused in a project of national economic expansion. The goal was to accumulate wealth by any means necessary for the benefit of the metropolitan power. This system was inherently expansionist, violent, and required external colonies to serve as sources of raw materials and captive markets.

China’s commercial developments, while advanced, largely served an internal, agrarian-based empire. The state’s Confucian ideology prioritized stability and internal harmony over aggressive external expansion and accumulation. There was no comparable fusion of state and commercial power for the explicit purpose of global domination.

IMHO, the answer is in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin

TLDR: Capitalism cannot survive without Colonialism, because it needs new markets to solve the recurring overproduction crises. An overproduction crisis is when the workers earn too little to buy what they produce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism

Europeans are not evil nor good. They are influenced by the material conditions they live in and by ideology.

They do that also in Bollywood movies! It was unexpected the first time I hear that!

You are intentionally shutting out the meaning of my comment.

The concept of the “lesser evil” operates as a manipulative technique, much like the neoliberal slogan “there is no alternative” (TINA). In both cases, the spectrum of alternatives is artificially narrowed to create the illusion of fewer choices than actually exist. For example, while the United States has roughly fifteen multi-state political parties, the lesser evil strategy deliberately implies there are only two.

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I am surprised of the fact that nobody wrote neoclassical economics

Mold, which can live even in space, or under very strong electromagnetic radiation

Just as tasting food mindfully teaches you to distinguish its flavors and ingredients, engaging in activities you enjoy teaches you to relax and appreciate them more deeply.

There is a lot of left-leaning content available in French! They have a lot of scholars and thinkers who are openly leftists, and in Europe it will not scare anyone.

One source I found is this: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/22/americas/cuba-crisis-energy-economy-intl-latam

It was translated in Italian and shared by several Italian news outlets.