As usual, a great documentary from the PBS Frontline (showing that American media can make informative documentaries still). One thing becomes very ob...
Not with a bang, but with a whimper? Or not even with a whimper, as Ts Elliot put it, France left Niger. Last Friday the last French troops left Niger...
Obviously the vast majority of Hamas have basically been born and lived all their lives in Gaza without ever being anywhere else. OK, I was talking ab...
Thomas Friedman made quite rational remarks. 'Bibism', as he coined, has been now a disaster. And it should be understood that this will go on, if the...
Being sarcastic, as you are the one asking if islamist resistance group will just give up the fight. So similarly, You think the Irgun would just have...
Seems like for you they are all just one bunch. Who cares to sort them out? Isis, Fatah, Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria... whatever. Yes, Pale...
Hamas isn't Isis. As I stated with the Israeli political parties, don't generalize everything. It would be as silly as me saying that every American i...
Ariel Sharon rejected the Arab initiative as a "non-starter" because it required Israel to withdraw to pre-June 1967 borders. Simple as that. And perh...
Accompanied? You think the peace initiative and the Hamas Passover attack were coordinated? I think that attack was simply to derail any peace initiat...
Operation Prosperity Guardian would be an interesting thread on it's own, but as it's firmly linked to the war in Gaza, I think this thread is enough....
So I knew that again @"schopenhauer1" would again totally sideline the crucial factor of just who is in power in Israel (or in Gaza, for that matter)....
What is impressive is that as Netanyahu's Likud party had as it's party platform "River to the Sea" and also the platform "No two state solution ever"...
In the case of how Finland joined NATO, a far more accurate would be: the Marin administration was taken and dragged into NATO by an overwhelming pres...
Actually, those conservatives or conservative parties which reject populism are quite like that. Yet it's quite telling that Rory Stewart resigned/was...
Well, some estimates put the B-29 program to have been even more costly than the Manhattan project, so how much would a transatlantic bomber project o...
No, air power does work. Tactical air power works. Even strategic bombing can work. Yet the pre-war ideas of bombing civilian targets to quicken the e...
In my view cultural assimilation stamps out identity, but pogroms or discrimination in general don't. On the contrary, even if you wouldn't otherwise ...
A pretty sure goal when you are the sole nuclear power in the Middle East with likely a working nuclear triad deterrence, a superior armed forces comp...
This is the unfortunate strategy that the gun lobby, or nearly every lobby, follows. Fight everything, every inch. Assume there never will be a consen...
That is not going to be easy when you have the 2nd Amendment and the current gun lobby. And the current political system where lobbies can have very m...
Well, as you made the argument about genocide earlier, I remember answering that the bodycount (or the ethnic cleansing) has to be a higher number. Th...
Again you got it wrong. And doesn't the most of US's oil that it uses come from North America? I think @"BC" is correct. So I don't understand your po...
Well, then the 51st time... :wink: But I think that the Hamas charter isn't so important now. Good luck if Israel still can negotiate a cease-fire wit...
Let me remind you: I said that the Foreign Policy in The Middle East has been a train wreck. Where else have two former allies turned to be in the Axi...
An interesting take just on how much actual gun culture means. Something that isn't obvious to many, actually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnBDK-Q...
So you think there is just ONE way to fight a war? One way to use military power? Just to give an example why this isn't so, just look at the statisti...
Actually not! Again I'm not saying that. If the US wants to be a Superpower, then it has to do something, or otherwise just stick to a more passive st...
Yeah, well their media isn't controlled by or scared of the Israeli lobby from America! https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2014/12/F120319AM...
It's a good question. Let's just look at the area first without the Palestinian / Israeli conflict. If you looked at the short historical video that p...
Well, at least John Mccain was honest about it wanting the US to stay for 100 years in Iraq. (Naturally as they are staying in Germany, but anyway...)...
And this gives a lot of hope for America. It shows just how difficult it is to hide in the US what some would say a conspiracy and others (like me) is...
False and fabricated intel promoted by the people in the White House themselves, yes. They were looking for a moment and the successful terrorist atta...
Please tell me the benefits after a war that killed 100 000 Iraqis gave in this case, really. Especially when the situation now is this like this: As ...
How about not invading Iraq for weapons and a weapons program that didn't exist anymore in the first place? Saddam would have had his share of trouble...
For any US President it's quite difficult to make a tough stance on Israel. Besides, US Middle East policy is and has been since the Gulf War a slow t...
Israel is a domestic politics issue in the US. It is as simple as that: American democracy can have powerful lobbygroups (in this case especially the ...
Surely they didn't anticipate the Ukrainian response. But now they are adapting to it. Yet Putin can hope that the Americans seeing just 'forever wars...
The Presidents of Venezuela and Guyana met and even shook hands. That both talk about peace is a promising sign. https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townn...
We are all children of our time. Hobbes saw the English Civil War, hence his experiences of "Parliamentarism" are very different from ours. Just as, w...
Nobody has said that, but some people are extremely willing to forget the annexing part, if somehow that would follow from the other objectives (and w...
Interesting debate between Stephen Pinker and John Mearsheimer on Enlightenment. I think that the moderator here isn't great, but both Pinker and Mear...
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