NoneOfUrBusiness

I mean isn’t that what nonsense is?

Not a justification for that either. “Seizing” ships is another word for piracy.

I mean, yes, but this “victory” came at the cost of two hundred thousand dead, God knows how many wounded, twenty years they could’ve used to develop their country and even tighter Taliban control than before the US invasion. Afghans managed to kick the US out, but they did not succeed at defending anything. If I was Venezuelan my lesson from this would be “absolutely don’t get into war with the US,” because such a war would leave their country in ruin just like Afghanistan.

If they do that will you protect them from the wrath of the US war machine? Exactly.

Or the middle option: She’s incompetent but this is what the people guiding her want.

Based on policy? Yes. Based on beliefs and values? No. For historical reasons European countries have a stronger welfare state, but that’s mostly inertia. Compared to America Europe is still in its Southern Strategy phase, and given the rapid success of the far right I’d say the nationalism is actually worse, in part due to America having never been an ethnostate. Stuff that either doesn’t find purchase or remains restricted to the right in America sees a lot more popular acceptance in, say, France and Germany. This is the case for anti-immigration sentiment, for example, and don’t get me started on French laicite. The American right being more mature and having had more time to organize* shouldn’t be confused for Americans being more rightwing in their values.

*The modern European far right has only really had ammunition since the 2015 immigration crisis, while in America it dates back to the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Idk American geopolitical rivals are probably laughing their asses off looking at him.

Culture? Language? Skin color? Fucking names?

No, but Ben Gurion absolutely was.

Uh… The Nakba was committed by secular atheists. Stop trying to pin this on religion.

I’ve seen this anime before.

We don’t summarily execute people at the president’s say.

Yeah… no.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/gaza-authorities-accuse-israel-of-stealing-organs-from-released-palestinian-bodies/3719641

Because why not? Seriously that’s it.

I don’t know if they do, but they don’t care. Israel, despite how much it markets itself as such, is not a nation of Holocaust survivors.

You’re being downvoted because The Independent is a news outlet, not a country.

Yeah that’s fair, though I do have to note that other than Yom Kippur in none of Israel’s past conflicts was it seriously outnumbered. That’s the image they like to sell, and intuitively it feels like it should be true, but it’s really not. Israel has always been good at raising massive armies relative to their population, and for instance surprisingly way outnumbered their enemies in 1948. Again not contesting your point; I agree that they were much more competent in the past.

Not disagreeing, but “at this point” implies they were ever anything else.

I’m no fan of the Muslim Brotherhood, but yeah “terrorist organization” is nuts. If this word ever had meaning (it didn’t), it sure as hell doesn’t now.

With what?

Uh… The (combined) second largest economy in the world? The only reason the EU isn’t considered a superpower is the chicken shit neoliberals running it; do you seriously think Russia and their “special military operation” can take the full weight of France? Germany? Italy? Really the only thing EU countries are missing is the military production to sustain more aid for Ukraine, which is not exactly a hard problem. You’re talking about Russia like it’s the Soviet Union, but it’s just not.