Short answer: No.
Longer answer: Prions make your brain melt.
Christians may be a majority. But extremist Christians with desires on invading privacy and enforcing their religion on others are a minority.
You cannot teach an extremist to value an education when education destroys extremism.
At a certain point people have to be simply told they are wrong and made to acquiesce to the will of the majority. This is one of those instances.
Get out of here with your reasonable take
Ah, so you’re just detached from reality. Thanks for the warning! Enjoy the block.
It isn’t that they must be. It’s that the larger powers around them will by default control the surrounding area, unless they suffer severe collapse.
The Roman Empire spanned all the way from the British Isles to the Egyptian desert once, and they held strong trade influence on the areas outside their direct control. It is the same here; the only question is who you would prefer to align with. The West, and the US/EU, or the East, Russia/China. That is simply the truth of geopolitics.
Is racism your go to argument for trying to invalidate others’ points? Really?
You people amaze me with your hand waving of a tyrant despot who has legitimately shown he is willing to burn countries to the ground to expand his sphere of influence.
But yes, magic indeed.
Their own bloc… to be promptly subjugated by Putin?
Wait, you’re telling me the Greatest Generation had evil, Luciferian, sexual deviant drag shows? In their militaries?
But mah masculine as fuck grandfather would NEVER….
/s if anyone needed it
Shang Chi is a true leader here
He’s basically agreeing with you.