Yeah that post war economy is gonna be hell, and this has knock on effects for years since it limits the spending that can be used to modernize the military in the future. It’s hard to see how this invasion will be remembered as a move that helped Russia long term.
Berlin police have confirmed that a 13-year-old was detained “on suspicion of insult,” which is a criminal offence under German law.
Dawg…
Same as it ever was (ever meaning the past 2 years atleast).
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/iranian-breakout-timeline-now-at-zero/
It would still take months to build a detonator though.
Seems like AP is getting some basic facts mixed up here?
Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel during a single incident in April in response to Israel’s alleged assassination of a pair of Iranian generals in Syria at the time.
Here’s the contemporary source https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/13/middleeast/iran-drones-attack-israel-intl-latam/index.html
Iran launched an unprecedented large-scale drone and missile attack at Israel on Saturday night, in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic complex in Syria
tbh, pretty disappointing from AP.
Basically nothing, but he had a veto if he really was anti-NATO.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO
NATO expanded under Trump. While he talks a big game, I have serious doubts about Trump or any other president going against the MIC.
I genuinely do not care who owns the factory as long as it creates jobs.
Bit of a double standard though, right? They don’t have to affirm Palestinian’s right to statehood. If not saying Israel is a legitimate state is anti-semitism, wouldn’t that make the same stance toward Palestine islamaphobia?
Asked about those findings on Monday, Miller noted that Israel said there were no tanks in the area, and that the State Department couldn’t attest to any particularities because it is only conveying what Israel has said.
The Washington Post previously confirmed there were armed military vehicles in the vicinity, as did Al Jazeera’s analysis of satellite imagery.
Most expansive intelligence apparatus on the globe, but they just can’t figure out what’s going on in Gaza.
What Euro Med said was also based on the testimony of locals. Sounds like he said she said and since the IDF destroyed all the buildings in that area it’ll be tough to prove definitely.
There are holes in Israel’s story here.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/10/middleeast/israel-gaza-hostages-journalist-hamas-intl-hnk/index.html
Aljamal lived on the first floor of a multi-story building, according to Euro-Med. The IDF said the hostages were found on the third floor.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/logan-act-michael-flynn-trump-russia/516774/
From this interview in the Atlantic, looks like the guy being interviewed thinks it’s probably not constitutional as written. Basically it could run afoul the first amendment and they’d have to write a more specific law to enforce it.
Hmm, I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the info.
This seems to imply that there aren’t already ICC warrants for Putin. There are…
Feels like Trump’s ties to the Saudis and Emeratis don’t get enough attention. The Russia stuff is definitely important as well but in these cases you have business dealing with actual state officials.
Edit: actually the other thing was with Oman not the UAE.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-business-deal-with-oman-raises-new-ethical-questions
That doesn’t solve the lack of labor available though.
BRICS is less about alliances, in fact the UAE and Iran are enemies to the level of the US and Russia. It’s more about reducing the influence of Western sections on global politics. Basically anyone not reliant on the West financially would benefit from joining BRICS since it reduces the leverage the West has over them.
ETA: it’s a similar concept to OPEC where many countries are outright enemies.
Ah OK, I can’t read apparently. I thought you meant the attacks from Iraqi militias have been going on longer than the current Israeli invasion. I agree with your original comment.
For these particular groups the article says the exact opposite.
But on Nov. 2 they claimed their first ever attack on Israel.
In general it is pretty rare for anyone to directly attack Israel other than groups they created through their various occupations, mainly Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
The graph is really telling. More sanction than ever and the US has maybe never seen it’s enemies and nonaligned states more cooperative (atleast since the days of the USSR although that’s debatable). This is probably the biggest shortcoming of the Biden admin foreign policy, the rise of BRICS and stuff like that.
ETA: biggest shortcoming strategically not morally, that would be Gaza obviously.