Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

The fossil fuel industry has ties to anyone who will promote their business.

> Fossil fuel interests will stop at nothing to further their greed.

Exactly. Nothing. If tomorrow the left advances their interest be sure that the fossil fuel industry will just as quickly attach to them.

Racism is a system for pitting poor white people and poor black people against each other. But the perpetrators are not the people in the other tribe, they're the people telling you that there should be separate tribes.

It's all originates from each person's decisions. If a person wants to pay attention to their lifestyle and health, then in the US he will get one of the best results in the parameters you listed. That is just a fact.

And if we want to maximize these parameters among everyone, we need a ultratotalitarian government that will put all the people into concentration camps where they will work under threat of execution in the open air and eat a specially designed low-calorie diet.

> It also has its lowest-ever World Happiness Rankings.

Yeas, and North Korea has the highest.

> The U.S. is currently leading in global declines in reputation, trust, happiness, and perceived positive influence.

And that's good thing. For decades US has been doing atrocities all over the world, to the approving cries of other Western countries. So the only problem with US declines in reputation, trust, happiness, and perceived positive influence I see is that this should have happened decades earlier

I'm not sure banana republic is the best description of what is happening, the definition of the term only cover part of where things are heading.

A comparison with NK seems more complete, especially given the current twits at the top, so I've taken to referring to the US as DPR-US.

That remains to be seen. Trump and his goons are breaking apart the foundations of society as we speak, not to mention the decades of Republican gerrymandering. The complete and utter loss of trust in the US on the geopolitical stage is another huge issue, it will be a long time before Europe or Southern America trust the US again - the hope that Trump would be a short-term one-off event went out the window last year.

> Compared to hard focus on socialism that was (and still is) prevalent in EU, some better balance is required in these times.

Where outside of Spain does Europe actually have socialists even as part of the government?

Most countries here are run by the far-right (e.g. Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, the Netherlands), centrists/conservatives (Germany, Poland, Croatia), Social Democrats, neoliberals (France) or coalitions of these.

> Nah I am not worried about [Russia], they are consistently unable to wage modern war to benefit of us all.

Never underestimate the willingness of Russian leaders to sacrifice their population for meat-grinder wars.

> In the meantime we arm and train ourselves, stronger Europe is always better for any future scenario, internally and externally.

Agreed, the problem is we can't be arsed to actually evolve to a truly federal society anywhere close to the US. Economically there has been a lot of integration happening, but politically... oh that's one hell of a clusterfuck.