Bullshit.

Israel is a nuclear-armed nation, it is as immune to large-scale ground invasion as N Korea or Pakistan. They do not need our thousand pound bombs, nor our military alliance. This just isn’t the 80s anymore.

Similarly, Reagan wasn’t facing a criminal trying to take down his own justice system, relying fully on being propped up by ethno-nationalists that want Palestine, all of it, exterminated, just to maintain his own position.

We could probably stop them, if we threatened them with severe economic sanctions. Cutting off the weapons would simply make Netanyahu use even more indiscriminate tactics though, like starving them all, or firebombing the whole place. He can’t accept a permanent cease fire though, because one would cost him, him personally, everything he has left.

That’s the problem with strongmen. They don’t actually give a fuck about people, just themselves. And they’d rather be an evil tyrant than a loser.

Probably can’t fix that with a phone call, don’t you think?

If you don’t want to parent your own son, there is someone out there willing to do it for you. They will not do a good job.

No one wants this war, or wishes it on anyone,” said Tal Beeri of the Alma Research and Education Center

Bit naive imo. Netanyahu is a bit of a strongman that catastrophically failed to keep his people safe, which betrays the most foundational appeal of such a figure. His approval rating demonstrates this, and he’s facing criminal charges to boot.

He has one route forward for personal preservation–more war.

It doesn’t matter. He’s a politician, he has to deal with hard reality, not how he wishes things could be. Erdogan is an ally, no matter how much we may dislike him sometimes. Elections are a reality, and people vote for what they like.

This is hard reality, where things are not simple or easy.

Domestic politics is as major a consideration as geopolitics. Perhaps even moreso, as how much can you do if you’re not in office?

And we don’t need any additional routes towards negotiations with HAMAS. If the Qataris didn’t want to do it, we’d ask Erdogan.

Yes, quite easily. He was fully on Netanyahu’s side, now he is steadily moving away from him. From this I can conclude that he has decided that supporting Netanyahu is no longer a good idea.

My reasonings why are more supposition, as opposed to any kind of confirmable fact. I cannot read the man’s mind, of course. But, some things are more likely than others.

I’m just glad he didn’t try to stick to his guns, and actually started listening to us, paying attention to the resignations and shit. Otherwise he was gonna go down with that ship, and maybe take us with him.

Yep, done that one before for sure.

Even with all sexism lenses removed, it still looked kinda bad. Dugin is a bigger deal, a person of power and influence. His daughter was a smaller fish. While both civilians, one has the appearance of going after a more major figure influencing the war, the other appears more like generic terrorism on some lower-level activist.

So, admitting it was a mistake and they wanted the bigger target made some sense.

Bout damn time. Not everything needs to be a cash cow for someone.

… yeah, your First Amendment rights to assembly and speech don’t necessarily apply 100% of the time. Selling us out to geopolitical rivals is one of those times.

You couldn’t, for instance, freely speech about classified things that other countries may find useful, in catching up to our military capabilities perhaps. This is an important limitation to remember when hanging out on discord.

They are not part of the Rio Pact. They have no defense treaties that I am aware of.

Really I’m arguing a position directly in the middle. Extremely drastic action of the kind that would be effective is no longer feasible. No action is unacceptable, as it would get much, much worse.

Which is why I’m arguing for some action, but an overall understanding that 1.5 C warming is toast, and 2.0 C might be around the corner, so we need to begin transitioning more attention and resources towards mitigation and reversal. For instance, seas are rising. We probably do have a responsibility to the people that are already being displaced.

Since we have limited power, we should pursue limited methods of prevention, basically. I think we should not overly pressure India in particular, because it wouldn’t budge Modi, and they’re feasting on cheap Russian fossil fuels. We can and should work towards carbon neutral ourselves, quickly. But we shouldn’t think we can control the rest of the world somehow, and make them do it too. That means things are gonna get hot.

I’m not asking anyone to halt their development. I’m asking you, you specifically, to realize that if they don’t, then global warming happens. So, global warming is gonna happen. We no longer have control, it’s not our choice to make.

So, onto the next problem.

Afghanistan is seeing their standard civil strife stuff and Myanmar exploded recently. India and China are also frequently skirmishing around the Himalayas. Off the top of my head.

And that’ll make four continents seeing war. Nobody is conquering Australia, right? And Antarctica is still demilitarized?

edit: And fortunately NA only has three large fucking countries on it. But I guess we’re kinda working on it.

Fucking madness.

I hope people that study history remember. We’re not good for much, in the grand scheme of things. We don’t build stuff, we can’t tell people which ideas are best, we don’t have any unique skills that are only acquired in the field of history.

There is one thing we can do though, sometimes, when opportunity presents and times require. And I’d almost call it a duty, because we’re actually the only ones that can see it all. It’s what we’re for, and it’s why when times get their darkest, we’re one of the first targets.

We know this.

edit2 because that was disrespectful to smaller Caribbean and C American nations.

That’s fair. We try though, just not all of us.

Trump isn’t in charge anymore. If you think some tampering makes a source unreliable on everything else too, then you must be a genuine anarchist that literally believes nothing…?

World is just more complicated than that, and the feds can swing in whatever direction they want, depending on who’s giving the orders.

Lumping it all together as some USGOV thing is just typical conspiracy stuff though. Details are critically important in real life.

edit: Ah ha, tried to sneak a stealth edit past me? Cute, but I know the tricks. Biden appointees aren’t necessary. Simply oversight that the science underpinning the results has been correctly performed. Anyone can perform science properly, it doesn’t matter what “side” they’re on.

edit2: Here’s another source, though they only have data until 2021, which will still have covid mucking up the data. But still some interesting stuff in here:

https://www.climatewatchdata.org/countries/USA?end_year=2020&start_year=1990

Get your facts straight first, otherwise it becomes fully apparent you’re really just trying to obfuscate the entire issue.

US emissions over time:

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions

One does not have to be without fault, to see and criticize it in others. Otherwise it becomes too easy to just repeats the same mistakes. This is actually wisdom, not stupidity, where we try to learn from history. Even other people’s history.