You are reading it wrong. It literally has the whole world there.

It looks as if Canada has about 1/5th the population of China. It seems this is a logarithmic scale, which does not make sense.

Yeah, but they aren’t emerging democracies. This post isn’t the best.

Also, many countries in LATAM have been democratic for longer than many countries in Europe. This map seems Eurocentric.

What’s wrong with a line graph

Oh yes, he looks exactly what and how many countries voted against him and he does not like it. In fact, it's the whole point, he wants a new USSR which is feared like 60 years ago. The vote shows how far away those times are.

What are you trying to show here, and what's the purpose of including "per capita" in the assessment?

You’re thinking about the other west, the one that’s not on the east of eastern europe

But there’re western europe and north america?

You’re absolutely delusional if you think Putin gives a fuck what these UN delegates think

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Thanks, Obama...er, Biden!

You are right, the balloon had an altitude of 60K ft. The amount of money to take one balloon down is extravagant.

Quit sowing discord, comrade, it's transparent. You FSB lot have been doing that for years now, it's old.

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This is how it worked when I was in the military. We had an annual requirement to train anyways and any time we did something like this (we sunk an abandoned fishing vessel) we counted it as training. So sure, it seemed expensive when analyzed the way this post did it, but that money was already allocated and spent and not doing it wasn’t going to save money.

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More meaningful would be the marginal cost of the operation.

Why shot it with a missile? Do they not have conventional guns onboard?

significant improvement on your original attempt, well done :)

Don’t the jets have a targeting system? The balloon, I would think, is pretty immobile.

The missile explodes in the air if it does not find the target. And its heatseeking, so the fact it could find the balloon at all is kind of impressive. Its designed to look for a jet engine.

Eh, alot cheaper than I expected.

They're designed to track the hot engines of another aircraft, not a balloon that's almost the same temperature as the air.

Talking about the US’s military budget, 2 million is practically pocket change