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I really don’t see… …why someone with Chinese roots would do it
Tankies hate the West. Psychotic nationalists are capable of all sorts of dumb.
I really don’t see… …why someone with Chinese roots would do it
Tankies hate the West. Psychotic nationalists are capable of all sorts of dumb.
Ah yes, nothing else embodies peace quite like the Vietnam War
I think the way most Germans have owned the mistakes of Germany past, instead of trying to deny or ignore them, is an example that should be applauded and emulated by the rest of the world.
Hamas kidnapped some American citizens and is holding them in Gaza. The US would likely prefer to attempt any rescue themselves or at least assist in any attempts.
Because Hamas kidnapped some American citizens and is holding them in Gaza. The US would likely prefer to attempt any rescue themselves or at least assist in any attempts.
Apparently I get my world news from the history books, here’s a few examples you can look up:
1967 Israel takes control of the entire Sinai Peninsula
1971 Israel returns Sinai Peninsula to Egypt
1982 Israel invades Lebanon after attacks from militants
1983 - 1985 Israel slowly withdraws from most of southern Lebanon
2000 Israeli completes withdrawal from Lebanon
2005 Israel withdraws all military and civilians from the Gaza Strip and hands over control to the Palestinian Authority
2007 Hamas violently overthrew the PA in Gaza (bet you didn’t cry about this)
2023 Israel withdraws from Jenin in the West Bank after invading
Never claimed otherwise. In fact, I literally mentioned Israel stealing land when I wrote:
their approach of taking tiny bites has been subtle enough to avoid causing repercussions, so they most likely just go back to doing that at a later date.
I guess that was too abstract?
You think Israel will just stop and leave the Southern half?
Even if they did, they’re keeping the northern part and annexing it.
I’m opposed to what Israel is doing but the truth is that Israel has repeatedly given back land they have captured during conflicts. So yes, they will not be annexing any land. As well, there is way too much international attention on them right now, whereas their approach of taking tiny bites has been subtle enough to avoid causing repercussions, so they most likely just go back to doing that at a later date.
The thing I don’t understand about this invasion is what’s stopping Hamas from just relocating south with the rest of the Palestinians? Sure they’ll lose some heavier equipment that might be hard to move but they don’t have that much of it to begin with. If they stay and fight they’ll lose the equipment anyways, and only end up getting killed. Whereas if they leave with the civilians, then Israel will look stupid after invading Gaza only to find nothing. Huge failure for them.
I totally agree. I think a separate internationally recognized Palestinian state is the only solution to keep Israel from encroaching on any more land than they have. That’s been offered in the past but turned down by the Palestinians. A separate Palestinian state will also not prevent both sides from firing rockets at each other until the end of time.
Great points, but that doesn’t stop Egypt from allowing food, water, humanitarian aid, etc from being brought into Gaza, but people talk like Israel has 100% control over Gaza’s borders.
Besides, if Gaza and the West Bank were officially the state of Palestine, Israel would have no obligation to allow free passage between Israel and Palestine so it would basically be the same as it is now, although I’m assuming that right now there is also a naval blockade.
PalestinianIranian backed militants have a history of establishing enclaves and starting civil wars within the countries that host them. because of this history.
FTFY
Gotta love how everyone calls Gaza an “open air prison” then go on to blame Israel, totally disregarding the fact that Gaza’s southern border is with Egypt.
You obviously don’t know what you are talking about.
China embarks on production of a new generation of nuclear-armed submarines that for the first time are expected to
pose a challenge to growing U.S. and allied efforts to track them.not sink themselves
FTFY
You know after WW2 in like 1947 (or 48?), prior to to the birth of Israel, the UN drafted a plan to divide what is now modern day Israel into two states; one for the Jewish inhabitants and one for the Palestinians, PLUS Jerusalem was to be a UN controlled international city. The Jewish community accepted the offer, the Palestinians turned it down because they wanted Jerusalem all to themselves as well as wanting all the Jews dead (them and the rest of the Arab world).
So yeah, the Palestinians could have been celebrating like the 75th anniversary of their own state by now had they not been so full of hate.
That of course is no excuse for Israeli apartheid. Both sides are assholes.
Unfortunately there will still be too many MANPADs to deal with, but F-16s will definitely help.
I had the number of years wrong as I was relying on my terrible memory instead of looking it up before posting, that said, not sure where you are getting your numbers from since you didn’t post any links.
According to the World Bank global poverty was cut in half in 30 years, not 20 as I posted:
For 30 years, global extreme poverty had been steadily declining, and by 2015, the global extreme-poverty rate had been cut by more than half.
That’s from this link: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty
While pre-pandemic global poverty rates had been cut by more than half since 2000,
That’s the first sentence from this article by the UN (the people you claim say poverty is increasing)
Politifact says that the claim:
“Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half.”
Is mostly true at this link: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/mar/23/gayle-smith/did-we-really-reduce-extreme-poverty-half-30-years/
If you look at the second graph on the wikipedia page on Extreme Poverty here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty it looks like the total number of people in poverty was around 1.6 billion around the year 2000, but by 2015 it appears to have dropped below 800 million.
So yeah, it’s obvious that there’s a lot of variations in the numbers but still looks like my initial claim was not completely without merit.
Global poverty rates were cut in half over 20 years due to globalization, but yeah, just because westerners lost all of the low skill manufacturing jobs, it all sucks. You realize the US is still one of the biggest manufacturers on the planet but it’s for higher end complex products? Not saying there aren’t problems in the west, but globalization helped billions of people.
I’ve been using copilot and find it’s suggestions are perfectly cromulent.
And what if the army splits in two? That happens in civil wars ya know!