...in which #Arab leaders have accepted their weakness in material and military affairs and sought to normalize with a much more powerful, Western-backed #Israel.
By contrast, the #Iranians, #Hamas, #Hezbollah, the #Houthis and others chose a more religiously-sound approach. They accepted that the #US could overwhelm them with high-tech “shock and awe” aerial attacks. 👉They chose to focus instead on delivering...
...decisive blows that show that some key aspect of the enemy’s power, some Goliath, such as the air force, is in fact impotent."👈
"👉#Iran and its allies, by contrast, regularly show that they can keep fighting and landing decisive blows.👈 They, like the #Arab peoples led by #America’s allies, 👉are religiously committed to destroying #Israel.👈
As such, 👉helping the Israelis win by taking in #Palestinian refugees, whom the ...
"‘The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead,’ wrote John Maynard #Keynes in his 1923 work, A Tract on Monetary Reform."
Mid March is the long run for many Gazan refugees, Mr. President!
Usually, I don't link to the corporatist #SocialMedia surveillance sites. Today, I'm going to make an exception due to the gravity of this #ProofOfCollusion between #TFG and the #Kremlin
...#MichaelCohen and #PaulManafort were “leading” for #Trump on collusion, which was true—#Cohen was working with the #Kremlin to try to seal the real estate deal Trump wanted even as Trump was hiring a man he knew was a Kremlin agent (#Manafort) to run his [#Elections2016] campaign and do in that role whatever it was the #Kremlin was expecting (which, it turned out, was liaisoning...
..."#Manafort) to run his campaign and do in that role whatever it was the #Kremlin was expecting (which, it turned out, was liaisoning with #Russian intelligence via Russian intelligence officer and Manafort partner #Konstantin Kilimnik). n as #Trump was hiring a man he knew was a Kremlin agent (Manafort) to run his campaign and do in that role whatever it was the Kremlin was expecting (which, it turned out, was liaisoning with #Russian intelligence...
intelligence officer and Manafort partner #Konstantin Kilimnik).
after the success of Trump-Russia collusion in 2016 there was no doubt that the collusion would continue and that Putin expected Trump would win in 2020 with his assistance, after which he’d complete his invasion of #Ukraine. //
Yes, and that makes things more complicated.
In the end, if not one of the 2 peoples is rather completely anihilated, an unthinkable outcome, the 1947 solution of the #UN, developed by great thinkers, is IMO the only way to a lasting solution that will not necessarily entail terrorist attacks on a daily basis.
...captured and annexed the West Bank during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War until it was occupied by Israel in 1967. "
The kingdom's independence predates the #UN resolution in question by a year. The resolution about the carve-out of an #Arab nation would not have made any sense anymore in 1947 if #Jordan really were that nation.
"...but also on the ground realities at the time, such as the #Jewish population's presence and the outcome of the #Arab-#Israeli War of 1948."
I can agree with all the facts that you state here (with the whole post, in fact) as they coincide with my recollection of things I have read and heard in the past. Thank you, too, for the recap.
Yes, and this is why the international community must form alliances that protect the vast majority of nations: they are not mighty.
In fact, it is an old concept derived from #Aesop / #Aísōpos n the 7th-6th century BC: His fable of the Bundle of Sticks, also known as the Old Man and His Sons.
“Chuck Schumer plans to force a vote Wed on an #Israel & #Ukraine aid package stripped of border security provisions after GOP made clear they would block a move to take up entire bipartisan border security and foreign aid bill in the afternoon
Question:
What do you call someone who takes hotages? A hostage taker.
What do you call a party that holds a whole country hostage, and just for political manoevres at that?
How about a party that holds 3 countries, and Allies at that, hostage?
Would #Ukrainian + #Israeli people feel entitled to consider them to be a terrorist party, as they will be the ones who suffer violence, if the funds don't pass Congress..
"Ihre Eltern, Großeltern und Urgroßeltern hatten sich einst dem NS-Unrecht entgegengestellt. Nun wenden sich mehr als 280 Nachfahren von Widerstandskämpfern mit einem dringlichen Appell an die deutsche Öffentlichkeit."
"The letter entitled
👉"Learn from history, strengthen democracy!" 👈
was signed by more than 280 women and men, including the descendants of #DietrichBonhoeffer, Claus Schenk #GrafVonStauffenberg, and #CarlFriedrichGoerdeler. They write that populists and...
European institutions and EU member states have pledged to provide at least €21 billion in military support to Ukraine.
"According to the list provided by the member states, we are talking about 21 billion euros for military support for Ukraine, included in the budgets for 2024" said Borrell, the head of European diplomacy.
21 billion euros (👉2.0 trillion roubles👈*) of military 🪖 aid for #Ukraine sounds like a huge amount of money 💰.
It isn't. The regime in #Moscow was planning to spend way more than seventeen times as much:
"#Russia has an ambitious 2024 revenue target of 👉35.1 trillion roubles👈 ($391.2 billion) next year, a 22.3% planned increase year-on-year, based on assumptions of high...
🇺🇦 🇪🇺 The Commission has today proposed to renew the suspension of import duties and quotas on Ukrainian exports to the EU for another year, while reinforcing protection for sensitive EU agricultural products.
This is done in line with EU commitments to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.
Why only 7?
Why so little?
Why so late?
ETA of the "flotilla"?
The global economy and its consumers are still suffering from the highest #inflation in rececent decades, caused by the #Pandemic and the #Russian aggression in #Ukraine.
Kuwait can transfer more than 100 M-84AB tanks to Ukraine via Croatia - Serbian TV.
Kuwait is considering the possibility of sending more than 100 M-84AB tanks to Croatia for overhaul and modernization at the plant of the local machine-building holding Đuro Đaković in the city of Slavonski Brod and their subsequent transfer to Ukraine.
It is possible that in addition to the Kuwaiti tanks, the tanks of the Croatian army will also enter Ukraine. #AureFreePress#Ukraine️ #Kuwait#news
"The transfer of #tanks to #Croatia has already begun; the first six M-84ABs have already been delivered to the country, and 👉trailers with tanks were spotted
moving towards Croatia 👈on January 25 in Barje, #Slovenia."
Why yes, I AM still getting deluged by trolls who are intentionally calling me Pro Genocide after my earlier post.
Thanks for asking.
Adding: I did not take a stand on anything other than to stop calling Biden "pro genocide," and saying that disagreement with his policies is fine by me & that I don't discuss that war in my feed... because of... this kind of reaction by trolls and others who are trolls in training, apparently.
#GeoPol
Oops, I do take stands against or pro both sides, as I feel appropriate.
The subject is too important and the conflict helps #Russia, #Iran, and the #Houthis, among others,
and makes matters worse for the #Palestinians, the #Jewish people globally, and the #Ukrainians, in particular.
A brief first analysis of President #Xi Jinping long and insightful article titled "Forging Ahead to Open a New Chapter of China-Russia Friendship, Cooperation and Common Development"
[I see this as a threat for other countries:]
"...comprehensive strategic partner of coordination. We are both major countries in the world and permanent members of the #UNSecurityCouncil. ...
Our two sides have had close coordination on the international stage and...