Hm, playing devil's advocate, I think it is because the minus has not been defined as a string operation (e.g. it could pop the last char), so it defaults to the mathematical operation and converts both inputs into ints.
The first is assumed to be a concat because one of the parcels is a string...
It's just doing a lot of stuff for you that it shouldn't be in first place 🤭
Violent overthrow of East Timor (widely considered a genocide)
Ok, this was Indonesia, with murican quiet assent, but still, don't give other countries a pass on these things to make them look clean.
Many of these also involved the local elites going to the US for help. e.g. The draft UN resolution for the no-fly zone in Lybia was produced by the Arab League and backed by the African Union, which pressured russia and China not to veto it.
Lemme ask: isn't China's dominance on rare earth extraction just because their environmental laws are basically non-existent? Any other country could do that at scale if they really needed to, but it would take time and sacrifice nature.
Those could be useful in case some tyrant takea over and says he's your god now, like he's some Egyptian pharaoh building gold statues to himself...it's a declaration of independence for another age :D
...not that modern fanatics could ever reach that conclusion, they couldn't spot satan even if it were telling them to vote for him to punish the unbelievers.
They are not bad rules to live by, maybe the guys in charge should start following them as a test run to start with before they impose them on the "peasants".
You can already see the severed trade networks start to heal circumventing the US. This is going to be brexit x 100