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A lot of states have a minimum speed limit of around 40 mph on freeways

On the other hand, the closest equivalent in the rest of the Nordics (Denmark/Norway/Finland) is Vipps/MobilePay, and you must have a Visa or Mastercard card to use it.


You must have a debit card, but most of these cards are BankAxept cards that happens to be dual-branded with Visa or Mastercard. At least in Norway Vipps payments go over the BankAxept network (Vipps owns BankAxept which handles 80%+ of Norwegian in-store payments and an even higher proportion of Norwegian debit card payments), not over Visa or Mastercard.


Although they may increase this year because the Chinese government has been encouraging the substitution of coal for gas & oil during the Iran crisis.


The USA completely failed to eliminate the threat of a communist takeover of French Indochina.

Ask Pakistan if the threat of Afghanistan-based terrorism has been eliminated.


> Flying F-15 and F-16s now.

Except not really. If they were willing to risk sending many aircraft deep into Iranian airspace with SDBs and JDAMs they wouldn't be running out of ballistic missiles.


There have been 60-70 F15 and F16s operating in Iran (could be more just found via public sources).


And when an F-15E was shot down they got spooked. They're relying heavily on missiles because it doesn't cause a multiday story in the news when one is shot down on its way to the target (and because they're incapable of thinking more than one move ahead, and because it's not their money...).


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