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gelgoog

Lieutenant General
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US + Russia is a much better combo than EU + US. It is even worse when you consider if US don't pick Russia, the alternative of facing China + Russia is even worse.
The thing, the US doesn't need Russia for anything. The US itself is a continental power with lots of resources. And if there is some resource they need that they don't have there is a high likelihood that Canada or Australia will have it.
As for the EU, the only concern of the US is that they don't escape their control, and become an alternative center for power. For the EU, it is kind of obvious that Russia would be a major and stable resource provider. The alternatives are Africa or the Middle East but those are suboptimal because of their instability.
Losing Russia as a resource provider means that the EU will regress economically. For the US this isn't that much of a big deal.
 

KYli

Brigadier
For as long as people dont overthrow the ruling class.

Hell, Ukrainian ruling class is still selling the country today.
If Ukrainian ruling class can be bought for tens of billions per year, then Russian ruling class needs hundreds of billions. US is going to trade EU for Russia as the US can mike EU but the US needs to bribe Russian ruling class. It simply is a bad business.
 

Chevalier

Major
Registered Member
Another delegation? Don't they have a country to run?
Ever the opportunistic Anglo Americans, willing to make a buck whilst ordering their storm troopers to fly nuclear bombers off chinese Cities.
There’s been a nice charm offensive by a Californian governor and sucking up by Apple CEOs who also advocated moving Chinese factories out of China, but I don’t see anything or concrete or tangible that could reliably indicate sincerity on the anglos.
Who’s to say their bonhomie will last, especially as they are overstretched in Ukraine and their oligarchs in Israel are demanding America sacrifice itself for the chosen people.

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and judging by GB, the view from Zhongnanhai is that the Anglos, having declared an ”all of society” race war, are simply as incapable as accepting an ascendant Chinese nation as Zionists are from accepting a palestinean state.
 

pmc

Colonel
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The thing, the US doesn't need Russia for anything. The US itself is a continental power with lots of resources. And if there is some resource they need that they don't have there is a high likelihood that Canada or Australia will have it.
As for the EU, the only concern of the US is that they don't escape their control, and become an alternative center for power. For the EU, it is kind of obvious that Russia would be a major and stable resource provider. The alternatives are Africa or the Middle East but those are suboptimal because of their instability.
Losing Russia as a resource provider means that the EU will regress economically. For the US this isn't that much of a big deal.
EU will regress economically not because of lack of cheap resources but its own culture. there are plenty of resources in Latin America, Africa, Mideast, Central Asia that EU can get it cheaper. infact EU firms develop these resources so they also getting high paid jobs but also identify attract human capital from those countries that further enhance EU soft power.
look at scale of Aviation flights that EU is attracting from these countries. EU is foremost attractive place for Global South.
Turkey is like central location of meetup.
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A total of 876 cruise ships visited Türkiye’s ports in the first nine months of 2023 with more than 1 million passengers.
 

FriedButter

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Israelis wear yellow stars at UN​

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Gilad Erdan, has said that he and his team will wear yellow stars at Security Council sessions until it issues a full condemnation of the “atrocities” Hamas committed on October 7, as he accused the international body of inaction over the attack on the Jewish state.

“Some of you have learned nothing in the past 80 years,” Erdan said in an impassioned speech to the council on Monday, while wearing a yellow star bearing the words ‘never again.’

“So I will remind you,” he continued. “From this day on, each time you look at me you will remember what staying silent in the face of evil means. Just like my grandparents, and the grandparents of millions of Jews, from now on my team and I will wear yellow stars.”

Erdan added: “We will wear this star until you wake up and condemn the atrocities of Hamas.”

The 15-member council has yet to adopt a single resolution amid the renewed conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group.

In several episodes throughout history, Jewish people have been ordered to wear a yellow star or badge to identify them as a religious or ethnic outsider - including by Nazi Germany during World War II, up to and throughout the Holocaust.

“Instead of shouting ‘Sieg Heil,’ these radical Nazi Islamists scream, ‘Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to England!’” Erdan said, adding that Israel was attacked by “Hamas Nazis” on October 7. Israeli officials say that 1,400 people, most of whom were civilians, died in the assault.

Last week, Erdan called for the resignation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres following a statement he made in which he said that the Hamas incursion into Israel “did not happen in a vacuum” and that the retaliation launched by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had included “clear violations of international humanitarian law.”

Israel has unleashed an unprecedented bombardment of Gaza in response to the Hamas attack several weeks ago. On Monday, Gaza’s health ministry said that the death toll in the besieged coastal enclave has surpassed 8,300.

Erdan’s pledge to wear the yellow star at UN sessions was swiftly condemned by Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to victims of the Holocaust, whose director Dani Dayan wrote on social media that it “dishonors both the victims of the Holocaust and the State of Israel.”

“The yellow patch symbolizes the helplessness of the Jewish people and being at the mercy of others,”
Dayan wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Today we have an independent country and a strong army.”
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About as effective as the US strategy to force the global south against Russia. You are not going to convince anyone outside of your group by trying to guilt trip them. More likely going to create more negative opinion against you.
 
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