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You raise a couple of interesting points, to be sure. Let us get through the next two weeks first and then see how the new admistration starts off to implement its policies.

The economy, and the debt is not as much of a problem as the growing inequalities in wealth and opportunities. Biden has two years to set his policies in motion before the citizens vote in the midterms to strengthen or deny him a majority in the upper and/or lower chambers. If anyone can tread a...

That the world's most powerful man tried and failed to disrupt the US system is a testament to its everlasting strength. Considering what the country has endured in 2020, it has been a stress test that has shown its strengths and weaknesses, and the process of improving the system will carry on...

It is very simple actually. For something on a steady decline, the past does appear to be better than the present, and a crutch to avoid looking at the bleakness of what is to come.

This is an almost never-ending discussion, but it should start with the definition of the Indian sub-continent. If one defines it as the land mass bounded by the Indus in the West and Irrawaddy in the East, the Himalayas to the North and the Indian Ocean to the South, the proving the...

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Please include the metallurgy needed, if possible.

The sad part is that the nature of the problems in Pakistan's economy is such that nobody has the ability (or the will) to solve them, no matter how strident the claims. Changing faces periodically does nothing to change the basic exploitative monopolies underlying the present system.

You said it! :D

The system is designed to achieve the results that are wanted precisely.

You said it! :D

I agree that this is more than a dilemma. The entire ME will be remade in the next few years, and with the added changes related to the decline of oil as a worldwide energy source, things can become very difficult for Pakistan generally, and for its balance of payments specifically.

That is great! Now let us see how this plan is actually implemented and how many tree are grown as a result.

That is a rate of about 5.5 million trees per day if working 12 hours a day every day, or about 126 planted saplings per second.

Of course Pakistan should align itself with whatever power it chooses in order to serve its own national interests as best as possible.

The real question to ask here is whether Pakistan is independent and free enough from certain outside influences to be able to pursue its own national interests in this matter.

Great question! What do you think the answer(s) might be that make the dollar the world's reserve currency?

I understand your points, but the case with Pakistan shows that significant changes must be imposed from the outside, and not from within. The internal issues are slowly building to an explosive head, but periodic interventions from the outside release the pressure valves a bit to give some...

Those at the top have it so good, why would they make any changes?

But who will bell this proverbial tiger? The common man? Nope: "The commoner can be slow-boiled and gaslighted you see. Throw some political music chairs games, shield yourself with nuclear weapon brandishing...and voila, cabal perpetuation at low cost."