> I certainly would rather live places like Mallorca or Donostia than in many places that are ahead of Spain in the silly GDP game

If I was making as much money as I would in those countries that are ahead I wouldn’t mind living in Spain either. Otherwise good luck getting a place to live on a tiny salary if you don’t have your relatives to support you.

Also they continued blowing up people after the transition from fascism. Even before that they constantly murdered civilians.

For instance the IRA was very mild and moderate by ETA standards.

Calling them freedom fighters is not knowing anything about them. Their first actions were stealing from banks and most of the victims happened after the dictatorship was over.

Not much. Back then it constantly murdered civilians (of many magnitudes lesser importance than Blanco) and generally had no concerns about collateral damage. It continued this for years after Franco was gone..

PPP is a misunderstood, distorted and often semi meaningless metric

So a Chromebook?

Few countries rely more economically on global trade than China though.

You should only be comparing the working age population or maybe even the ratio between that and retirees since absolute population is a deceitful metric.

> haven't "done enough",

The people who are over 100 probably had enough kids but in a few decades the generation that will start getting close to that age will only have themselves to blame since they didn’t have enough children (tax contributions can’t really compensate for that).

> In comparison, China is the least

You only know of two major countries in the world?

They obviously could start methodically destroying civilian infrastructure to cause a huge humanitarian crisis which might force the Iranian government to collapse. They have clearly chosen not to commit to that approach so far.

These kinds of arguments are obviously vacuous: The US could also "win" any war with a non-nuclear opponent by nuking every major city. But the fact that they don't is not something worth calling restraint.

It’s definitely worth appreciating. The world could have looked very differently and might still fall into that trap.

They did that btw. Is there any railroad bridge still standing in south Iran?