Trump says he won't necessarily support the Baltic states if they are attacked, but said nothing about the actual problems that NATO causes.

Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait because the US ambassador told him that the US would not take action.

Turkish secularists, and even Kurds, are glad that the coup attempt in Turkey was defeated.

Andy Davis was badly injured and has to struggle to walk. Enough painkiller so he can bear the pain makes him drowsy. His doctor said he is "unfit for work", but the UK government disagreed. Now he has to spend 35 hours a week forever applying for jobs, although it is clear no one will hire him, in order to get funds that are not enough for him to live on.

The reason these fitness for work tests so often err in one particular direction is that the government has put pressure on them to cut off disability payments for as many people as possible. Some staff have reported being given quotas.

George Monbiot reports how people turn their eyes away from the pollution and wildlife destruction caused by farming, which on some dimensions is bigger than that of any other human activity.

He focuses on dairy farming, but other kinds of farming also do a lot of environmental harm. This is one of the reasons we need to reduce the human birth rate.

Many computer-based systems are so complex that their designers don't fully understand them.

As explained in the book Normal Accidents, physical systems — even mostly-empty tanks that normally hold chemicals — are so complex that the people who run them don't fully understand them. From time to time, this leads to a disaster which we cannot expect those people to know how to avoid.

When even the system's designers don't understand it, things are even more accident-prone.