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I mean to be fair China is helping Iran with intelligence so these companies are providing an actual military service to Iran. Not to say Trump isn’t being stupid, but this isn’t just about saving face.

“Challenged” in the same way a blind man is visually challenged.

This is why all pilots should learn linguistics. This man’s life would’ve been saved if the pilot knew that p becoming f (or vice versa) is a common sound change in language evolution.

Which part of “aspiring fascist dictator” implies a respect for the law?

Yeah it’s not like investing in renewables would’ve avoided 75% of the impact or anything.

No, the exact opposite: The EU should encourage the minority of Israelis unhappy with Netanyahu and co to resettle. An Israeli mini-exodus is already ongoing, and encouraging more of that would do more to hurt Israel than shutting Israelis out of most of the developed world. As a plus, an influx of liberal highly educated immigrants is always nice to have. That’s of course different from tourists, which absolutely should be banned from entering the EU

Nope. In my other comment I was saying that both are bad but America is worse; here I’m trying to say that both are ego projects, and therefore that the CCP’s treatment of Taiwan doesn’t imply fear any more than America’s treatment of Cuba does. No real relation between the two comments except using the same comparison of how either powerful empire treats its pet rebellious province. For the record I think mainland China should leave Taiwan the fuck alone.

I mean I’m no fan of the CCP either but there’s likely not much fear involved here. It’s basically an ego project, not unlike Cuba on the other side.

No, but it makes it better. To understand how much better, the closest comparison on the Western side would be Cuba.

Finally some good news.

No and no. Israel won’t be “dissolved” by the international community; either Palestinians or neighboring states will have to do it themselves in a likely brutal war. Relocating their population is also not going to fly unless you’ll volunteer for that anti-guerilla campaign (setting aside the ethnic cleansing aspect).

Edit: Don’t mistake this for being pro-Israel because I am absolutely not pro-Israel, but let’s not push for things that’d prove the Zionists right and also produce a Jewish Hezbollah.

I mean literally yes.

Well that’s definitely the thinking of an Infantino.

Not quite “any nation;” it’d take a significant bloc within the EU for it to really sting.

I sincerely doubt it. The EU has consistently dropped the ball on this, with or without Orban.

The U.S. is now the enemy of the free world.

Correction: The “free world” is the enemy of the free world, because that’s how late stage capitalism works. The EU seems poised to follow in America’s footsteps, if anything. Also if the “most heinous war crimes” part was a dealbreaker NATO never would’ve existed.

I expect once the [new] Tisza government is in place, that would be one of the first things the EU would like to push

I’ve learned not to expect nice things from the EU, but hey maybe.

I mean, being a TikTok trend is by definition being popular.

The military is at odds with him as he is putting them into harms way and pushing them to waste resources in Iran.

Source?

To the extent he’s purged someone, he’s fired very few people.

He’s personally fired few people (who were however all top brass members), but his admin also banned trans people from the military and imposed facial hair standards meant to harass black people into leaving.

He doesn’t have the support from the military to create a junta any more than Bush jr. did after 9/11, and Bush was a scion of the Deep State, with his CIA/President father.

Uh… any evidence Bush even wanted to pull such a stunt?

If the secret government wanted Trump in power permanently, then they’d already have suspended democracy.

And deal with a revolution/civil war that they might actually lose? Consolidating power under the pretense of democracy is the only logical play here. And besides, the people who want this to happen aren’t “secret” in any sense of the world; they’re tech oligarchs like Musk and Thiel and other billionaires. They’re also, you know, the almost 1/3 of the population that will back Trump in whatever he does. MAGA meets all the conditions necessary for a fascist overthrow of democracy, and their ostensible opposition barely even cares.

He’d have to get the legislation passed this year, before midterms shift the legislature to a Democrat majority.

Or launch a coup. That’s also a thing that can happen. Why do you think he’s filling the military with his cronies and purging minorities?