While the concepts outlined in the team’s new paper pave the way toward making travel through space nearing light speed a reality, constructing such an engine is likely something that will only be feasible far in the future, as the present state of technology would not allow for such a device.

There are also no toilets yet on Mars either, so it’s probably just as well.

But then they find that by occupying that country their new home is no longer any better than their old home, so then they have to attack another country to find a better home.

Besides some of the other good points brought up here, I’d like to say that it’s because communist countries typically were/are anti-religion, so it makes sense that religious leaders in capitalist countries would oppose any form of government that seeks to limit organized religion. So, they support capitalism because it’s the opposite of communism.

They are either profoundly ignorant or a damned liar. In either case, it doesn’t make them look good.