Excellent article by Faysal Itani outlining the dilemmas faced by the Lebanese state.
A key section here but it is sharp enough that you should read the full piece
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in...
Pretty sure this is standard Jewish theology? As in, Hebrew doesn't have a gender neutral pronoun, but most rabbis across the spectrum will say that using ืืื isn't actually an indicator of gender.
Eventually settlers are going to kill an Israeli providing protective presence. Given the current state of affairs in Israel, Iโm not sure it will have any impact.
HE SAID THE LINE
Thread (mostly about *economic* pressure)
cf Russia, which they also get lots of oil from; in that war, the closest they've come to "helping" is taking a steep oil discount, and selling industrial precursors like drone components at full price to *both* sides.
China has no allies*, only business partners. Its strategic thinking has just proven deeply allergic to this kind of intervention.
*except North Korea, maybe
The harder part is *external* transactions.
But it is worth keeping in mind that, whereas for a household or a company, nearly all real transactions are external, for large countries a lot of their transactions are internal.
Iran is pretty trade dependent, but half its economy is purely internal.
The upshot is that *internally* so long as the actual physical labor and raw materials are available in the country, the war machine will not stop for balance-sheet reasons if the state feels existentially threatened because in that case the state will eat whatever costs are required.
This is a good question to address, actually.
There's often an intuitive assumption that when a country runs out of money, its war effort will grind to a halt. That's how households and (sometimes) companies work.
But those assumptions are really frequently frustrated - countries can push on.
What does that have to do with the price of potatoes?
"Rich and powerful people read and watch the exact same slop everyone else does."
Aaaah I'm more used to hearing "multirotor UAV". Different discourse bubbles ๐
Single-rotor is the preferred nomenclature
Oh no what cursรจd take did I miss
Half Ashkenazi guys of a similar build, only one has a shimmer of humor and creativity in his eyes and the other has the shimmer of... I think some kind of insecure masculinity? They had to be the explanation for the weird sword stuff.
Because no one explains it correctly
They were at all the job fairs when I was graduating college, and my impression at the time was that they were as much a UI company as anything else.
Why?
First rule of crisis PR - don't become the crisis that another crisis PR team needs to deal with
I mean, genuinely, I wonder what people think macroeconomic statisticians do all day if they're NOT trying to figure out whether people can get jobs and what their wages are and what groceries cost?
Wet in the alcohol sense, or wet in the moist sense?
Just can't let that type think Russia is down and out. Makes them start hankering for other wars of "liberation".
Bolton is pissed he's watching us screw up his dreams. It's like someones driving his dream sports car 20 miles under the speed limit and then crashing it into a telephone pole.
you should attack your enemies where they are strong. politics is paradoxical like that
I have had this conversation many times, results are mixed and actual effects on underlying beliefs are doubtful.
Often, if pressed, they'll fall back on "the war crimes are more understandable lapses because our enemies are so evil", and then sometimes if talking with someone particularly honest you can get them to see the motte and bailey from "it doesn't happen" to "it happens and it's fine".
Widening divergence in threat perception between the EU/UK and US
but the likudnik argument is very much that israel *is* an exceptional case, and that it conducts itself with an unheard-of patience and purity and any attempt even to find evidence to the contrary are obviously motivated by a hatred of Jews and the Jewish state.
