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In absence of a better explanation, I suspect it's for the same reason he needed a military parade on his birthday.

"Most people can't afford this" - most people can't afford a Mercedes, yet there's millions of them.

I don't think that's that bad, especially because the pressure drops everywhere equally. Most planes would be able to work just fine, they'd just have to fly a bit lower, if even that. Divers would get squashed though.

If we're only talking about oxygen as in O₂, you'd probably be mostly fine. Even if we're talking anything that contains an oxygen atom getting destroyed, something like Silicon would be so much worse - most of the Earth's crust would just be gone. Hydrogen would probably also be fun, because it'd turn water and any organic compound into oxidizers.

The Plague was not confined to Europe, and also didn't start there.

What adjectives are you thinking of?

From the way the article is phrased (also in German) it sounds like the question was: "should Israeli artists be penalized for the actions of their country", which sounds extremely biased. Unfortunately I couldn't find out what they actually asked, because it isn't mentioned anywhere I looked.

wie wir die unangenehme Kultur in der Truppe unter Kontrolle bringt

Wenn man in der Bundeswehr nur Leute versammelt, die freiwillig Bock haben auf Leute zu schießen, musst man sich über die resultierende Kultur nicht wundern.

Weiß nicht ob die Definition aktuell ist. Zumindest so wie ich das Wort in Benutzung gehört hab, hatte das mit Hautfarbe nicht viel zu tun. Nur noch die Bedeutung mit viel makeup & co.

I hope that once one state switches, the others will start wondering why they pay millions to Microsoft every year.

Maybe OP was thinking of the Eurovision Song Contest kind of Europe

For non-native speakers: "at large" means "not yet caught" from french "au large".