Then you’re probably more knowledgeable on the topic than me. I did a great job of only learning the basic minimum of frontend development in my WebDev classes, never mind UI design or UX testing. If it weren’t for a webapp QA gig I did for a while, I would’ve had no experience with usability at all.

I have one accessibility quibble:

WCAG 2.2.2 recommends that any moving content, such as your carousel of reviews, have some mechanism to pause it. More information can be found in the accompanying Understanding WCAG document.

I didn’t do any full accessibility test on your page. I don’t know if you care about WCAG compliance anyway, and frankly, I wouldn’t expect it for a hobby project. It’s just one of the details a professor of mine drilled me on so thoroughly that I still remember it eight years later.

It’s not so much about normal as about the point of the metaphor. I don’t think they generally shouldn’t be used; I think this one doesn’t really work in this context because international relations aren’t nearly as “exclusive” as relationships, not can they ever be completely separated.

If we want to make an analogy about social relationships applied to international relationships, you’re still moving in the same social circles where a friendship or enmity with someone ripples out into the dynamics of your relationship to everyone else. They might approve of your choice of friends or look critically at your closeness to someone they can’t stand, feel like they have to choose a side or appease both of you, defend or condemn either party’s actions…

It’s not like you’d form new relationships upon one breaking down if you already know everyone else and everyone also knows both you and your ex.

International relations are hardly comparable to exclusive romantic entanglements. Having relations with multiple nations isn’t cheating, for instance, but rather the norm.

If we do want to make the connection, that Ex is your only close neighbour and also a huge cunt you can’t ignore, which does influence the way you deal with other nations in hopes of getting a support network.