It doesn’t matter… In this conflict, whatever you say will be said to fake news and lies by the other side.

Controlling who can come and settle doesn’t make a state authoritarian.

Current day Switzerland is not Nazi Germany.

To be fair, Amsterdam red-light district is really safe, thanks to the windows and cops patrols. The plan to move them outside of the city in some shady areas is lowering the safety for all parties involved. And the reasons behind the move are basically “Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?”

SBS made a good documentary about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxn84mAduXo

I support the freedom of the press. But I’m sometimes amazed how westerners, like myself, travel to authoritarian countries, get in trouble, and go “How could it be?! (shocked pikachu face)”

You know how I stay out of trouble? I don’t travel to shithole countries. I stay in my not-perfect, but nice, democratic country.

This being said, I hope she gets freed ASAP.

Context: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mPHsRcI5LLQ

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is much more nuanced. Both countries’ current heads of state are kinda like “all this land is my country’s, the other country should not exist.” It’s unclear who is right.

The Russo-Ukranian conflict is clear. One leader is claiming the land of the other, the other just want it back. Ukraine’s government is not claiming half of Russia.

The EU has uncultivated land subsidies. To avoid overproduction of food and overexploitation of the land, the EU pays farmers to keep their land uncultivated. Some countries, like mine, force farmers to uncultivate their land once every N years, and, of course, they get subsidies for this.

In my region, farmers will plant flowers and let weed grow, since they’re not putting any pesticide. They let the flowers and weeds die and rot at the end of the season. This way, they dont have to put as much fertilizer the next year. I’ve always seen these uncultivated fields full of bees and other pollinators in summer.