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Comment Re:Poor political decisions. (Score 1) 135

Not really. Every ruling power in Iran over the past century has made the exact same bad decisions in this respect. The previous monarchy, the more recent monarchy, socialists, capitalists, foreign interests, Islamic revolutionaries, they've all been drawing too much water from the aquifers too fast for terrible reasons.

Comment Rest of world should also target self-reliance (Score 2) 30

- Rare earth elements
- Other minerals should be strategic assets too
- Clean tech - solar panels and battery tech
- Patent rules that favour local businesses
- Seafood - stop getting cheap frozen seafood harvested by China's fleet - who aims to flood the market with unsustainable seafood rather than to feed their own people

Comment We'll see how it can be enforced (Score 1) 23

When I shop for seafood, I intentionally avoid buying a product of a certain country with the largest fleet of fishing vessels aiming to flood the market with cheap frozen seafood and try to monopolize supply. This country also has a record of unsustainable fishing practices, including target Galapagos.

This grave offender will remain unnamed - I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find out.

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