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... From Bangladesh to Slovenia, fuel rationing has throttled transportation, frustrating leaders dealing with the fallout of a war they did not want. In Muslim-majority countries, anti-U.S. narratives are flooding the airwaves, often with tacit permission from governments.
Even America's allies in NATO have limited their help to the U.S., with some stressing the Trump administration did not consult them before launching the fight with Iran.
The war appears to be accelerating what some see as a U.S. break-up with much of the rest of the planet since Trump returned to office and began flexing U.S. economic and military might in haphazard ways, including tariffs.
"A lot of people are fed up with how chaotic this war has been and scared of the potential economic impact, but I haven't seen any major protests in response," a Washington-based Asian diplomat said, having been granted anonymity because the topic is sensitive. "If a more reasonable person becomes the next president, the image of the U.S. might improve, but for policymakers this raises some tough long-term questions about the alliance, how far we can go to stay aligned with the U.S. and what we should do if we can't rely on the U.S. anymore."
In the latest sign of foreign powers distancing themselves, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described his country's economic ties with the U.S. as "weaknesses" to correct in a video message released Sunday. ...
The Spanish Flu (COVID) hit all the fighting powers during WWI.
The least available data for Western researchers afterwards was Russia and the Ottoman Empire, who suffered COVID losses.
Strangely enough, of the Allied powers, the British suffered much less COVID deaths than the French, US, Italians.
One theory is that many of the British imperial soldiers from all over the world already had been exposed to COVID and therefore developed immunities.
When they got sick, they didn't die like the Allied soldiers.
During the Spanish-American War (1898), less than 400 Soldiers were killed by the Spaniards during that four month conflict, but approximately 15,000 US soldiers died from disease.