Always has been.

It is flying in a straight line, but is doing so around the edge of a sphere. The map is distorted to project the sphere onto a flat image.

They are legally obliged to refuse to carry out illegal orders. “Just following orders” is no defence against war crime charges.

Hinterland is in Welsh not Gallic.

Acting like a grotty, backward, small-minded country again.

Then people will just do direct bank transfers.

According to the in-universe history, the railways on Sodor were first built to facilitate coastal naval batteries in WWI. So not far off.

Hold up. She was tired of the Nazi association with a Tesla, so she traded in for a Mercedes?

That’s the sound of the Royal Air Force preparing for Round 3. And Dresden property prices plummeting.

Why would he? He doesn’t pay them.

Nor should he have had a chance. He’s a relic of an unenlightened era. The scrap heap with all of them.

See: Afghanistan, Iraq.

America are the toddlers who have found father’s gun and decide to blast at anyone withholding sugar.

The idea that the American military are competent enough to go after just the cartels is laughable. Not to mention the violation of Mexican sovereignty.

Then you see what they did in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Any boy over the age of 12 was considered a potential terrorist therefore a “military age male” and was thus fair game for special forces murder squads, air strikes, drone strikes, and was not needed to be included in the official statistics for civilian kills.

In short the American military apparatus uses Terrorism as a green light to go for maximum overkill, regardless of the level of civilian kills and socio-economic impact. This in turn sustains the vast economic forces in defence contracting and makes a lot of political donors a lot of money.

It also rids the US of thousands of low-income patriotic-but-stupid people who sign up to the military because they have few other career options. These would later cost the state money in Medicare but not if they get killed in action.

War is primarily big business. Moral and legal factors take a back seat.