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The US is pretty safe. They can support Israel until the region burns to the ground with everyone inside, and it would be mostly business as usual.

If a wider war starts, everyone says move 1 would be Iran leveling the Gulf states. Europe gets it's gas from two places, mostly, and one is already tied up in a war.

There probably should be a carveout for that.

When you want to do a car bombing, but don't have a car. One day they'll be like the cool terrorists, with their shiny new beat up Toyota Hilux's and black scarfs.

Or not, you know with the whole suicide bombing thing. It sounds like the guy got away this time.

Mandatory "there's more than one version". You might think anarchism is also bullshit but it's not North Korea.

Israel is in no way a useful check to Iran. Everyone in the region either hates them or tolerates them for money. They do not have an interest in attacking Iran at scale abroad, or the population to sustain it. If anything they serve as a useful strawman for Iran.

Also, I'd like to point out our "allies" in the region are just as bad. Iran isn't a real democracy. Saudi is openly an absolute monarchy and holds public beheadings for fun.

I mean, the data is only about funding rates that actually exist. No law enforcement at all would be jumped on by organized crime (that's called a power vacuum, and isn't a thing in Canada), but apparently an especially light police presence is no different from a heavy one.

What it most directly supports policy-wise is scaling down the local police a bit. The real work will still get done by whatever investigative teams.

Wow, I wouldn't be surprised by little connection or uneven, but none?

I'm guessing the important police work is carried out far from the local level with programs targeting organised crime and similar. Apparently the local guys write tickets and that's it. I would have at least expected they'd help by showing up to drunken brawls before they escalate, but apparently not.

Occasionally. Sometimes it seems like a free-for-all over there too, though.

Hospitality

Heavy drinking (although using drinks with completely opposite alcohol contents)

"America" is the only one I can think of. Not OP, though.

I'm actually going to go a step further and say regulated, non-crony capitalism would also be better than what they have. The party has no incentive to bring either in as they are the cronies, though.

Criticising the Dear Leader is racist, probably.

Small c, maybe. "Conservative" these day can actually mean "extremely reactionary".

Yeah, it's a believe it when you see it thing at this point. They might stagnate out economically or have internal supply issues, but there's a world of difference between that and actual regime instability.

Case in point: Zimbabwe is still run by largely the same group of guys that ordered the 100-trillion dollar bills made.

Real answer here. It can't be too gross if you want people watching your movie, though.

Hmm. What areas? AFAIK they're on all the same continents as humans, and a few species get as far north as places like Canada. I guess Ireland famously has no snakes, so maybe there. I'd expect northern Canada and Ireland could both get dragon myths by import from distant lands.

So, that's my attempt at an explanation.

That's more like demons, though.

Well that's very interesting. I'm guessing this is a proprietary scent that got added to the standard by whoever from the industry.

If I was designing it, it would definitely be fire-y. It would be a bad smell if I was being realistic, full of lizard bile sort of smells mixed in with partial combustion products, but nobody wants to be immersed in that. So, I guess the question is what sort of fire is dragon's breath?

It's supposed to be pretty hot, so maybe it's a metal sort of fire, but then again you don't really see that in the natural world. Acetylene and friends could do the same, although I'm not sure what that smells like exactly. Maybe I would split the difference between organic and metallic and go with a burning beeswax/hot metal combo, which shouldn't be too gross.

They know the answer already, and are probably both trying it.

In US terminology, since that's the language I know, they try for "competition" rather than "conflict". The difference being whether they respect each other's sovereignty for the most part while trying to bury the other, and don't take straight-up military actions.

To achieve this, you provide a long series of "offramps" - opportunities to pause and de-escalate - on the path between peace and MAD, and ensure there is no benefit to either party to do any specific escalation. Mistakes will happen, both deliberate and accidental, but they're very unlikely to all happen at the same time, so even if things get tense there's offramps left, and game-theoretically they will take one because nobody wants a full-scale nuclear conflict.