Yes, or if you were in Russia's pocket and wanted to remove the ability of Europe to use it as a base in some future Russo-Euro war.

Trying to work out how the author of that piece thinks China can assert anything onto Greenland. There is a fair chunk of dominoes between the two.

I don't see how we are 15 years into the twitter experience and 40 years the social media experience and still haven't reckoned with the attention of a person being the ultimate currency.
The primary aim should be to up the signal over the noise.
You should be able to read the comments!

Want to start a new account to abuse someone? Yeah, bad luck. Want to be the 100th person on a dogpile? Gonna cost you. Want to reply to someone getting thousands of messages a day? Make it worthwhile
Being able to connect to anyone is great. Being connected to everyone in a costless way. Not great

The cost of writing a reply should be the sqrt of that accounts followers (settable)
That cost should double every 20 replies (also settable at a post level). To make it costly to dogpile and reduce reading load
The reply cost would not apply if the OP follows the responder, or if they write a reply

Replying shouldn't be free. In a monetary sense, yes, but not in a social cachet sense.
Users should get credits equivalent to their follower count (no I don't have many followers, but I am not writing to randoms either)
Credits should increase with original content, monitored for spam (duplicates)

According to the plant app I have. A Large Painted Lady. South African origin.

The other big thing seemingly forgotten is that once you accept that restrictions are ok, you accept the risk that people you disagree with might make those restrictions.

When the cable tram was introduced it was relocated to Spring Street on the site of what is now Parliament Station. Then relocated again for the City Loop in the 80s
It was on Swanston for less than 40 years and would block pedestrians if returned
More shots below throughout the 20thC

Except, as the drawing in the article shows, it wasn't at the corner of Swanston and Collins in 1865. It was smack bang in the middle of Collins at Russell St.
Here are several shots of it courtesy of the SLV.

On the scale, Afghanistan/Iraq was an occupation not just an invasion - permanent troop presence to suppress population. It was far more impactful than the Gulf War for example which left the regime intact.

I think this is why you are misunderstanding me as I'm talking about the long run political/social implications not the military operation that can be anything from massed forces to special ops.
It matters whether the invaders withdraw or remake the nation

The issue isn't that it is inaccurate. The issue is that people consider it positively.
In the hierarchy of foreign intervention (invade, subjugate, occupy, colonise, settle) it is by far the most destructive. The one that most often accompanies genocide.
imo, "invade" is a weak term

True but Jesaulenko is a good example. Didn't play Aussie Rules until 14 and played soccer before hand. Indian immigration is pretty recent. This article is like writing about recent European immigrants not playing footy in the early 60s. Give it 20 years

Related, there was a lot of Italian immigration at the start of the 20thC and Barrassi, Silvagni Snr etc were third generation of that period. They provided an opening for post war Italians that maybe doesn't exist for recent arrivals

There was a study of player descent for cricket a few years ago and it found that second generations rarely made the top level but third were quite common. Will be the same for Aussie rules.
We are many many years from third generation immigrants of Asian descent but they'll come around.

Taken together he is top-5 all time WAR per season even with the injuries (though his only truly great batting season came when he wasn't pitching)
And he plays DH so not defending.
In cricket terms it is more like if Sehwag bowled like Shane Bond.

He's not particularly close.
His pitching ERA+ would be top-20 all time but is marred by numerous injuries. 15 WAR over 8 seasons would be well short of HoF.
His batting OPS+ would also be top-20 all time. 35 WAR over 8 seasons is borderline HoF.