NoneOfUrBusiness

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen international diplomacy this competent before.

China also knows Gulf oil is a Sword of Damocles hanging over their head, so they were more prepared than Americans who seem to (not unjustifiably tbf) believe they’re the kings of the world.

The real reason mainstream media is so unwilling to condemn rightwing nonsense is that it’d break modern physics: Rightwing goalposts constitute a perpetual motion machine. It’s a global conspiracy by Big Thermodynamics.

Fucking please do.

“Look at what you made me do!”

I mean the US’s most powerful geopolitical tool is a toss up between its weapons industry, its dominance in global finance and being the richest country in the world, but yeah NATO is a close third/fourth.

Hezbollah participated in Iran’s defensive war against Israel. They “started” it in the sense that Britain started WWII. Also, you know, Israel was committing ceasefire violations on a regular basis and still had Lebanese territory under occupation.

Either what Ukraine is doing is not okay, or what Iran was/is doing is okay. It’s really that simple.

Or it could be someone who didn’t get the memo, or their native language could be like this too (they could be German, for instance). WTF fucking chill out, dude.

They’re both fascist colonial states run by ridiculously evil people, but I’d definitely rather live in Crimea than the West Bank.

Why would they need to afford them? The whole point of territorial expansion is to gain land, resources and other forms of wealth. I think you’re referring to the occupations, in which case Israel is a wealthy developed country with a strong tech sector that also gets billions upon billions of US aid money annually. They also don’t overextend themselves, and many empires past and present have occupied many more people and much more land compared to their core population/area. I mean their only active military operations are on and off bombings in Gaza, more intense bombings in Iran and an actual invasion in Lebanon. This isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things, assuming they can control the fallout (which they’ve been somewhat failing at recently).

Political assassinations and kidnappings aren’t any more normal than they were two years ago; Trump is just more blatant about it. I mean when Western countries overthrow this or that regime, they don’t exactly give the old regime flowers. Not that they didn’t deserve it, but Saddam Hussein for example was executed after a show trial by American-appointed judges and Gaddafi was killed as a direct consequence of NATO bombings after his Western-backed overthrow.

Guys I think EU countries might be growing a teensy tiny bit of spine. Someone call the lobbyists ASAP.

War crime moment + leopards eating faces moment + death to America.

Hell, it’s the only reason Israel even exists.

This is an understandably common view, but it’s not true. The only fundamental change WWII brought to Palestine was weakening the British Empire; Zionists, partially due to British support, were by far the ascendant group in Palestine as early as 1939, so Israel was going to appear as soon as the British left Palestine. Zionist wealth and diplomacy, Arab weakness and division, Western colonial ambitions and British colonial policy made something resembling the current situation inevitable with or without WWII.

And EU will be stronger than ever.

I doubt it. The EU faces the same fundamental problem as the US: Powerful, greedy and unresponsive elites unwilling to compromise with their subjects. I think we’re more likely to see an overall weaker and somehow even more dysfunctional EU with Ukraine as a counterbalance to its traditional Western and Northern European power base (assuming the EU doesn’t drop the ball on Ukrainian recovery like it repeatedly did on the war).

How?

Because of Cuban exiles. Obama’s attempt at rapprochement with Cuba pretty much turned Florida permanently red and was immediately overturned by Trump. Not to say it’s impossible, but you’d need a committed progressive president, a popular mandate and a cooperstive legislature, three things the Democratic party has been doing its damnedest to avoid over the past two decades.

Not really. You basically have to be either a superpower or a pariah state to do something like this and not be immediately pummeled into oblivion.

True in general (see the India sanctions debacle), but why in this specific case? This war is giving Russia tons of extra oil revenue to fuel their war machine.