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I'd say more that "political and religious fanaticism are popular and powerful, and therefore as a direct consequence not considered mental illnesses." It's the same way that rich people are "eccentric", while poor people are "crazy"; no one is going to officially diagnose the powerful as...
IMHO:
Much of the US government is full of Cold War fossils who desperately want their Cold War back, and are trying to pick a fight with China. This was just another attempt to prod them into it, I think. It made China both more hostile and more independent of the world economy, increasing...
I quoted it because it wasn't deleted at the time. And "what you are implying" is a relationship that doesn't exist. Britain is at best the lackey of the US, not part of some "axis".
And the term "Axis" is almost always used to equate a group with the Nazis, which is ridiculous. If the US was...
Of course they are, the Houthis are threatening a major trade route. It has little to do with any "axis", even if the US and Britain sank into the ocean somebody would step in even if they had to build a new navy to do it.
Given how incredibly corrupt Russia is, the price being wildly inflated and most of the difference vanishing into some middleman's pockets wouldn't surprise me at all.
No doubt, but it would be foolish and only increase the likelihood of them losing. It's not like the Russian populace has any actual input into Putin's decision-making, anyway. All terror bombing does is increase support for the war against the people doing the bombing; if WWII levels of...
Also, Russia is a nuclear power, and a foreign nation backing a coup against the leadership has a good chance of pushing Putin into actually using them. Especially if it looks like the coup will win. I mean, it's not like we can kill him twice, after all, he'll have nothing to lose if he decides...
Exactly. Biden is playing to the political view of Israel that existed decades ago, not the one that exists among the younger crowd. "Only true refuge of the Jews", "bastion of democracy in the middle east,", etc. But a lot of younger people look at it and see an apartheid state engaging in...
Even if that happens, it'll be after at least a year more of the Russians being ground down economically and militarily.
And Russia is all about the illusion of strength; they are going to keep acting like they have infinite military resources until they suddenly don't. When they run out it's...
Yep. They not only have dug themselves deep into a hole, they've broken the shovel they'd need to get out of it. At this point "Chinese client state" is the good future for them. Better than "failed state" at least.
That's unlikely to have been the reason; the attack was a political disaster for him, and he didn't need a casus belli anyway to do genocide since they already were.
This was simply dismissing Hamas as a threat no matter the evidence, because Bibi had decided years ago they were a "solved...
Like I said earlier - they are cosplaying the USSR on a fraction of the budget. The USSR could have made a threat like that and been taken seriously. Modern Russia can't...but admitting that even to themselves means admitting that they are only a shadow of what the USSR was, and they really...
And also isn't trying to cosplay the USSR on a fraction of the budget. Besides the corruption, one reason Russia's military is so terrible is that it's so much larger than they can actually maintain. So they end up with a sea of rusty, obsolete hardware, much of which are ex-Soviet relics...