Argentina probably. Generally the southern hemisphere is pretty safe. Nobody's wasting nukes on brown people, except maybe Israel.
Every time Russia suffers a big military loss, they start doing massive attacks on civilians to distract from that. FTFY
Parachutes are not scientificaly proven to reduce skydiving deaths. There's never been a double blind study done.
How are you copying them? It could potentially be faster to use rsync. You can try mounting with noatime as a flag as well.
Drone us all down and live happily ever after with their army of robot servants. Asimov wrote a book about the outcome. The Naked Sun.
Bishops take off diagonally to the new world to find other boards to civilize.