Then maybe the West shouldn’t have spent 50 years selling the PRC the rope they’re using to hang them with.
Yeah, thats… kinda unfortunate. Everywhere, anything resembling longterm strategic planning went out the window with the fall of the USSR. With the possible exception of France.
This is China’s nightmare
Forget everything else, this is the essence of it.
The one thing you want even less than the Near East dominated by US oil interests is a Near East dominated by the Chinese.
Ah, Americans’ obsession with sexual purity
died in September 2025, after setting herself on fire
WAITWHAT
they went to school at the Mahatma Ghandi School of Civilization™ Diplomacy. Of course they throw nukes.
no, but maybe his niece. no-one knows, she presumably committed suicide before Hitler’s downfall
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the sheer hubris…
uprisings in Czechoslovakia, Hungary etc? Yes very much.
would you also claim the same for the United States? Their original sin is even darker, as most natives did not move away but simply died.
Iriginal sin is not necessarily destiny.
Lol, this sounds like a quote from someone in 1914 being catastrophicly wrong.
…or from someone describing one of the scores of conflicts since where “regional” has been a fitting description
of course not. the alternative should be a free and open society where Jews are but one of many groups.
Israel is currently sliding away from this - sadly - but it still has the potential
for starters, If you’d like to immerse yourself into the system of Middle Eastern clients and proxies, you will have an especially fun and long day going through the rather noxious minions of Iran.
You want to force Jews into the diaspora again? Brilliant move, that worked so well for them the first time around. /s
cue Oprah
YOU GET THE BOMB, YOU GET THE BOMB, YOU GET THE BOMB, EVERYONE GETS THE BOMB!
Them not behaving more recklessly than Israel is unfortunately not a high bar; which given their past actions I’m not sure they’d pass. I’d like to err on the side of caution here.
I dont see the potential for global conflict.
Israel and Iran have been trading blows for decades now. Some direct, many indirect. It’s a regional conflict, and regional it will remain.
Every now and then, Israel acts to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power – and honestly, we’re all the better for it, the world does not need another set of religious crazies to have nukes.
(That being said, is Netanyahu a deplorable asshat? Absolutely yes – but for different reasons)
Do I need to remind everyone
Judging by the number of downvotes your getting: yes.
you think WW3 is starting because of Israel? Can I also get under the rock your been living under, must be nice there.
China is a country where people just vanish. You’ve got no protections against the state. There is no free press. I don’t see how the same Chinese state will have any qualms about using their power in the same way in foreign countries too, if they can afford it.
Yes, the US has acted ruthlessly. But at least at the very least those crimes can be - have been! - made public.
Imagine US foreign policy, but add a healthy dose of we’ll-vanish-everyone-who-even-talks-about-it. The prospect scares me.