It was a basically Trump’s “Kneel and submit to your new king” notice

Their Greater Israel plan has always includes a small piece of Türkiye

Erdogan sees Israel as competition in the region and a threat to Turkey’s security. He’s not in it to do the right thing.

Sounds like tossing a few scapegoats in the political volcano to appease the financial gods.

But oil prices are going up making debt more expensive so politics is panicking about that instead. And about immigrants too of course.

It’s probably seriously frustrating for Putin to keep poking NATO with drones or other stuff and not get anybody retaliating.

Those that did usually don’t get elected (again).

It’s why they want to split EU in a bunch of fighting parties with propaganda campaigns, dumping immigrants at the border and the like before attacking.

Trump can only accept European countries as vassal states. Migration is for the EU a weak spot he’s willing to exploit. Anybody warning this can end badly and backfire is fired or primaried so nobody stops him.

Better to say that everyone earning hundred times minimum wage gets eliminated.

America is an experiment in how far you can push individualism. Collective action, unions and the like are suppressed compared to other countries. They’ll have to relearn that individual responsibility has limits and collective action is still important.

Block China and China blocks export of rare earths or something else and industries panic.

When you get caught in a Wild West shootout, you don’t stop for discussions about the morality of gun usage.

It doesn’t seem to matter that much anymore. International law and war crimes are a suggestion at the moment and nobody is enforcing them.

He has to fix a number of things that are impossible or contradictory and indeed after 6 months they’ll realize he too can’t do it, or make some unpleasant compromises that make people hate him.

My cat blames me for autumn and winter. She’ll look at me like “Why did you turn summer off? I was enjoying that. Fix it!” She’ll do that every year for some time when the weather turns cold and autumn rains starts.

USA has been pushing all kind of shit and UK politicians often give in because they’re Trump fanboys or pushovers, so the US does have power. How long and how far that goes remains to be seen

Managers who thought a panopticon was the best way to organize.

In a previous job, the manager had a low horizontal slit window in his office that allowed him to watch everybody in the open office from a seating position.

Now assume some responsibility for their war crimes.

And may the Israeli themselves receive the same right to exist as they give the Palestinians.