I mean, what are they going to do when the plane approaches the runway without permission, shoot down the vice president of the United States? They didn't really have much of a choice. I doubt the Americans would have turned around once refused.
Shells are artificially inflated because they aren't valued as a "home" but rather as an "investment"
And investment makes money, so snails with money can afford to pay more than the shell is worth as a "home"
If a shell were not allowed to be used as an "investment" the prices would go down substantially, even if they weren't forced to be sold.
If they were forced to be sold, the prices would drop even further as all of a sudden there would be a flood of *people" trying to sell their shells to a limited number of slugs, who would then only choose the best deal for themselves.
The slugs may not have been able to be approved for a loan for a $500k shell but only for a $300k shell, but there were no $300k shells available and if they were, they were complete crapheaps In a bad neighbourhood so renting a shell was the more logical choice.
I think it has to do with some law where banks are required to cut all financial ties to any company that aids in the production, purchase or selling of CSAM and Sexual Trafficking content etc. so many businesses are wary of any website that provides adult content unless there is the strictest of moderation and verification procedures.
Which is one of the reasons many websites (tumbler, Reddit) are limiting NSFW content because they want to be able to have users buy things on their website but don't want to moderate the content to the standards of the banks.
You got to wonder how much damage that thing gets just being constantly exposed to the weather
Normally ruins like that have jungle right up to the edges or its partially buried.
At any point would it be worth trying to put some sort of protective coating on it like a type of historically accurate stucco to recreate what it looked like in the past?
I am using discord for a discussion thread of one thing which follows a serial webnovel and it's infuriating because when something new happens there's always a constant influx of people asking the same questions because there is no way to pin or highlight pertinent information and no one is going to go scrolling through a million messages searching for the first time the question was asked and answered.
Hopefully. If the US leaves NATO and then attacks, article 5 can be triggered.
If they attack before leaving NATO I don't believe article 5 can be used.