Discussion for article #233900
Would Israel stop acting like bullies to the Palestinians if we stopped providing them billions of dollars in aid?
Fuck Iran! Do it for Elie! Elie will DIE if Obama shows Iran any love!
(Bibi maumaus with his Superpower of Guilt)!
He sounds envious of the prospects of “mountains of cash”.
Tell us when Israel starts acting like a normal country.
Look, when you watch the circus, you expect clowns to come pouring out of cars, dogs to walk on their hind legs and jump through hoops and the Ringmaster to bellow into a megaphone. Pfft.
The GDP of Iran at the official exchange rate is about 50% of the GDP of the Los Angeles Metro area.
If you calculate by purchasing power it is about the same as the LA metro area.
Can we stop living in terror of countries whose economic output is about the same size as our 2ND largest metro area? Or alleged Caliphates with no Navy and no Air Force?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html
As may be. It’s still the 21st largest country by GDP. It does provide a good perspective for what a huge business engine LA is, though. California, by itself,would land at number 10 if it were i a country, just ahead of India.
It depends how you calculate it. based on this Wikipedia entry that gives several rankings from the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, and the CIA Factbook, they come in no higher than 27th, right ahead of Taiwan.
My point being, the portrayals of Iran as a huge threat to the U.S are wildly exaggerated.
I have no argument about that. Iran is no threat whatsoever to the United States. My data was from 2012, so it might be outdated by now.
Your right about LA and California, it is a dynamic, huge economy.