Wow. And you still have >5 million people? This list goes all the way down to what I’d call not quite villages, but very small towns (although your link is broken, you need to add the Wikipedia part).

No, serious.

If SDF was more attentive (or even definitely knew this instance is here) I’d bug them about maybe looking into this.

That is funny!

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The only threat here the West is legitimately scared of here is them arming the Houthis (or similar).

Sure it does. OP was there, sort of.

Granada is pretty famous for tourist reasons, but unfortunately will be confused with Grenada, so it probably doesn’t count. Ibiza, maybe?

What’s your population threshold for city, here? Are there just a ton of rural people? It feels like a major country.

Not my experience, as a Canadian. I’m guessing Europe is a bit more ignorant, but they’ll still know about the other big cities and basic regions like the South. In the third world you might be right. No clue about East Asia.

I know Lockerbie. It came up a lot as Qaddafi went down.

I didn’t even know there were multiple villages in Luxembourg. I kinda thought it was a city-state.

I’ve actually heard of Oymyakon, just as a Canadian who knows geography facts. Ushguli is new information, though. (There’s definitely higher on other continents)

I take it it’s not Portland?

Or, like, Saskatoon. Ottawa is smaller than Toronto but it’s still big.

Dawson City is also a contender, at least domestically.

Probably Dildo, Newfoundland.

You know why.

Edit: Actually, I think Dawson City is smaller. It’s famous for being a big city back during the gold rush, despite being up near the arctic circle.

Well, they have to pay the tax just the same on the 10,000 - or whatever it grows into - in the future. I don’t see how it changes their tendency to invest rather than spend.

Looking at the empirical data, propensity to save was maybe double what it is now back then. It’s an imperfect metric because it includes instruments other than stocks and all social classes, but that seems like less of a difference to me than you’d expect if this was driving it.

Like, again, the general concept isn’t bad here, but I have to take issue with this specific argument.

That’s an extra point for it not being a physically trapped-type issue, then.

But set fire to his bunk first, to finish the job…

I’m not really seeing the upside there. You’re basically doing censorship for them. It would mess up their economy, but there’s lots of other things that could be cut off first, if you controlled the entire Russian border somehow.