American cities should have looked like this 20+ years ago.

Lol this is not a case of Syria being just very environmentally concious and deciding to get far ahead in the solar game. Its a case of not having reliable electricity infrastructure so solar is the only and neccesary option.

Is this ideal? No. Is it good that a lot of people are successfully relying on solar energy? Yes, and developed countries need to catch up.

I'm sure electric service has been patchy at best given the war ravaged state of things there.

I live there. I can confirm, I believe right now it's because our gov cannot pay for it. The price of power has increased by 800% since Jan 2026. Much more than the avg citizen can afford

Yup, they have had a total systems collapse. They are there because they have not choice not due to any forward thinking or some other policy.

The US is normally the country that bombs the middle east but in Aleppo it was almost exclusively Russia and the Assad regime that did the bombings. Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent Turkey) were the ones who sponsored ISIS. The US for once actually sponsored the relatively good guys in the conflict by backing the AANES ("Rojava").

This is not to say that the US had any moral reasons to choose the AANES. It was strictly geopolitics but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Why not because of that and because it's a great thing to have?

Why does almost everything here seem to have a need to be absolute?

By the US? Do you mean IS, Assad, and Hezbollah?

That bastard Godot, probably

I'll do you one better - why is Aleppo?

Ah, Gary Johnson. I had such high hopes for him in 2016...

It was my first presidential election as an eligible voter, and this was before the alt-right co-opted libertarianism. All I knew was that I hated trump, and I was being bombarded with anti-Clinton propaganda so I didn't like her either (but not for the right reasons, like how she's a neoliberal capitalist).

I didn't know enough about Bernie at the time. I didn't know enough about leftism or the world in general to consider myself a progressive yet. I hadn't even entered the cocoon in which I later metamorphosed into a full-blown socialist throughout my mid-twenties.

Gary Johnson... my first vote in a presidential election... sigh...

Those were... simpler times...

You don't understand. Now they can bomb both in a single hit

So much saving for US taxpayers

You don't even need to use car batteries (if you're referring to the lead acid batteries used in ICE vehicles).

LiFePO4 and Na+ are both options available as high-capacity power banks. They're not even crazy expensive either, and they're safer and last longer than Li+ and other options.