Y’all Nazis don’t get to monopolize eagles.

The violent collapse of Israel will not lead to relief for Palestinians in the short term.

How so? Presumably they won’t have time to kill Palestinians if they’re too busy killing each other, and while that is a gruesome thought it’s not more gruesome than what’s already happening.

That’s a common misspelling, but no. The correct version is “Zionism is fascism.”

And America’s Jim Crow past explicitly inspired Hitler, so it’s really one incestuous cycle of fascism.

Hitler brought the German people out of the poverty, Trump is leading us into poverty.

Absolutely not. Hitler happened to be in power during Germany’s recovery from the Great Depression, but nothing he did meaningfully pushed that along.

Honestly you can hardly blame Trump for how he keeps doing it when it keeps working.

I hope the only response the EU has to this is to laugh in Trump’s face

Coming from the future to say: They capitulated.

The Gulf States are (IMO) facing the problem that they need a way to stay relevant as oil (or their geopolitical position where they get to buy security with oil) becomes obsolete but putting large-scale productive capital in their countries is going to automatically empower the people manning, operating, supplying and otherwise getting actual production out of said capital (which is to say the bourgeoisie and the proletariat). For a petrostate largely run along aristocratic lines that’s a problem, because the new economic forces created by this transition will demand a political voice and Saudi aristocrats absolutely don’t want to give them that. Industrialization was (with some twists and turns) good for European countries, but look what it did to European nobility. This is also why they don’t create an effective army; without a strong, popular civilian authority (which none of them have) nothing will stop it from seizing power. Their big problem here is that you can’t modernize in half-measures; you have to go all-in or not because the first step will drag you the rest of the way, probably violently if you resist. Other third world dictators for the most part have this problem too, but while they are forced to deal with it today Gulf monarchies are buying time with oil so they get to deal with it tomorrow. Fundamentally their behavior makes more sense when you realize that they’re trying to thread a needle through a hole that doesn’t exist.

And that’s enough Karl Marx for one day I think. Remember, the answer is always communism.

American policy usually works like that, but Trump is for the most part a different breed. He’s concerned with self-enrichment first, ideology a distant third.

*Fewer

Sorry had to do it.

That’s not quite true. Russia is an ally with the European far right while everyone else (except tankies) steers clear of them. The beef with China meanwhile is very much a centrist establishment position (because it’s relevant to American interests and European auto manufacturers), while everyone else couldn’t care less. What Spain is doing is only ideologically coded in the sense that the center won’t do it.

That’s just sound policy; the US-China rivalry never had much of anything to do with Europe.

There isn’t just Chery in Barcelona. Chinese battery and stationary-energy-storage company Hithium plans to invest in Navarra in the north of Spain and battery manufacturer CATL is involved in building a lithium iron phosphate battery gigafactory in Zaragoza, 200 miles west of Barcelona. Critics fear these projects are part of Chinese companies’ efforts to localise production in the EU to evade tariffs on imports of Chinese electric vehicles. Critics fear these projects are part of Chinese companies’ efforts to localise production in the EU to evade tariffs on imports of Chinese electric vehicles.

Isn’t that, like, the point insofar as there is a point other than rank oligarchy?

Got anything I can read about that? A cursory glance at Wikipedia says Spain got (and is still getting) EU aid.

Saudi Arabia and UAE are tight with Israel (because they get US military support for backing it), so it’s not unlikely that Israel would get some windfall out of this, though the other person has the cause all wrong and in any case I doubt either country is much more pro-Israel than US establishment media.

Saudi Arabia and UAE are absolutely not going to be promoting Islamism (Qatar is more complicated). Islamists are the biggest enemies of entrenched authoritarian regimes in most of the Middle East, so even ones with a veneer of religion are trying hard to gain legitimacy as secular nationalist dictators. For example remember that one story about the UAE being like "Britain harbors dangerous islamists? The translation here is “this foreign liberal democracy is harboring enemies of my authoritarian regime.” If anything both of them (but probably not (Qatar) are already pushing for more bellicose US policy in the Middle East, because they’re vassal regimed whose survival depends on the continued interest of their imperial masters.

I mean for a certain definition of big they are the biggest people in the world.

There is no systematic anti semitism against them as it is in case of blacks for example.

There’s (AFAIK) no systemic racism, but they’re still about eight seven times* more likely to be the victims of (reported) hate crimes than non-Jews, so clearly something is going on here.

*From the article:

noting that Jewish people make up only 12% of the city’s population but are the victims of around half the city’s reported hate crimes.

Taking that “around half” to be exactly 50% you get 12% of the city being targeted by hate crimes than the other 88%, meaning that our number of hate crimes per capita for Jews (H*0.5/0.12 for H hate crimes per capita) is about more than eight seven times more than that for non-Jews (H*0.5/0.88).

That’s me I’m eating fish today.

No, that’s the third or so best deterrent. The best deterrent is to back Ukraine to the hilt so Russia doesn’t get ideas ever again.

You’re thinking of only the battle itself, but if I had to guess more importantly soldiers in any time period march heavy, which does require a lot of physical strength.