Iran’s standing forces are kind of irrelevant without a way to get them to Israel.

The settlers are enabled by the Israeli government’s use military force against whoever already lives on the land they want to “settle.” The money is the smallest of the issues at hand.

Nice victim-blaming, creep.

That was before Netanyahu brought the far right into power, and before the US gave said far right a blank cheque for ethnic cleansing (and that’s the charitable way of phrasing that).

Sadly the current Israeli government isn’t likely to leave willingly. Certainly not while they have the full backing of the US.

It’s better to be told that you can’t enter by the embassy than to be detained at the border.

Well, I certainly do look at him in wonder.

They also won’t result in anything other than US disengagement. Ukraine won’t surrender just because Trump says so. And neither will Poland and the Baltic states, and because of that the EU as a whole won’t.

It won’t even end the war. It’ll just make America look weak.

There won’t be a hanging, nor any other form of execution. We don’t do that here. It’s uncivilised, it’s brutal, and it’s unnecessary.

Nope. I overestimated him.

Doesn’t mean that his party would go for an AfD coalition though. He hasn’t even managed to get them to vote to pass a law with the AfD.

He won’t, at least not this year. There are still too many people in the CDU who’d be up in arms against a coalition or any other form of formal cooperation with the AfD, and many of the CDU’s voters are in the same boat. Not necessarily a majority in either case, but a big enough minority to kill any hopes of stable government or of winning an election with the party and electorate split.

Merz knows that. He’s an asshole, not stupid.

Imperial? Between Germany and China there’s one country that claims territory belonging to virtually all of its neighbours - hint, that country is not Germany.

Merz is going to form a coalition with the SPD and/or the Greens. We’re going to get another 16 years of stagnation, not the fall of the republic.

Really? I find spelling out “national socialist” much more impactful than using “Nazi” simply because it isn’t generally used as casually (like in “grammar nazi” etc).

Nazi is just shorthand for national socialist. It means the exact same thing. The article did call them what they are.

There is a difference between keeping diplomatic channels open and actively legitimising Putin’s régime by visiting Russia to attend a summit.

So you are fine with deliberate attacks on civilians, so long as they’re Israeli civilians. That’s really all I needed to know here. Bye.

Hamas did not lead any peace talks worth a damn and their “armed resistance” has only ever consisted of attacks on civilians, usually by firing missiles at settlements in unambiguously Israeli territory (attacking military installations or even settlements in the West Bank would’ve been at least somewhat defensible, but that’s not what they’ve been doing) and then hiding behind their own civilian population to hinder Israeli retaliation, getting them killed in the process. They also did all that from Gaza, an area that Israel de-occupied after the Second Intifada, and which could have served as a positive example of peaceful Palestinian self-government and eventually independence instead of the opposite.

Hamas has set the Palestinian cause back by decades. They’re important in the same way cancer is important to the human body.