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[Temstar]

Good, the Saudi Arabia-Israel rapprochement may be dead finally - no ambiguity in the statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia if the statement is genuine.

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I think with this, we can't paint this as anything other than Hamas victory. However ceasefire negotiation with Israel turns out is secondary, Hamas and Gaza was on the verge of being sold out by Saudi lead Arab world and Hamas decided not to go gentle into that good nigh. Aqsa Flood and subsequent resistance against IDF proved to everyone that Hamas have some fight left in them still and worth keeping on the board at the cost of normalization with Israel.

It draws comparison (no doubt intended by Hamas themselves) to Sadat launching the Yom Kippur War. Whatever your opinion of Sadat may be for his later actions he had the balls to launch a war to challenge fate, and it was only through this war that Egypt would eventually get Sinai Peninsula back.

 

[zhangjim]

I always felt these type of reactions usually come from two groups of people.

First group is the fenqings of the 2000s who imo are pro china but too emotional and demands the gov to act rashly to meet their short sighted expectations. The other group is the anti china gov hanjian type who makes use of any opportunities to pretend to be pro china but actually belittle the Chinese gov and lament them as weak and ineffectual.

I dun know which you belong to but based on your previous, I'm leaning more on the latter.

There are more people on Chinese online platforms who speak more fiercely and ruthlessly than me.

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This video has been making me feel guilty for the past two years. A dying elderly person still cares about the cause of national unity, but we can't do anything. His enthusiasm makes those who hold the decision-making power seem so irresponsible.
You cannot expect people to have no doubt about the increasingly serious situation of cross-strait relations. Especially when they see that the voting results and the "friendly attitude" on the island are completely opposite to official propaganda.These arrogant bureaucrats are even too lazy to change their text.

I think with this, we can't paint this as anything other than Hamas victory. However ceasefire with Israel is negotiation going forward is secondary, Hamas and Gaza was on the verge of being sold out by Saudi lead Arab world and Hamas decided not to go gentle into that good nigh. Aqsa Flood and subsequent resistance against IDF proved to everyone that Hamas have some fight left in them still and worth keeping on the board at the cost of normalization with Israel

Americans still want to push for unrealistic plans, such as establishing an unarmed Palestinian state.
The likelihood of Trump becoming president is high. This person who is good at extortion only has abnormal enthusiasm and care for Israel.
At least the Israelis have high hopes for him, and Mr. MAGA may acquiesce to indiscriminate bombing.

 

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Incidentally this happened:


Note the destination. However Houthi wasn't fooled:

 

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1. Rongxin Liao, 87, was first beaten unconscious in San Francisco about seven years ago in 2017.

2. He was attacked again at the onset of the

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pandemic in February 2020, when he was kicked on his seated walker while waiting for a bus near Eddy and Leavenworth Streets, fracturing his collarbone and skull.

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. Brain surgeons had to operate to save Liao's life. Liao appeared in court and asked the judge to give his attacker a harsher punishment. However, his attacker only spent

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in jail before being released.

3. His most recent attack happened in front of a Walgreens pharmacy on Oct. 1, 2023, when he was punched in the head while he was pushing his wheelchair.

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at the time did not even identify Liao as the victim.

Liao has bought a one-way ticket to Guangzhou, and said he will give up his naturalized American citizenship and restore his Chinese citizenship upon his return.

 

[_killuminati_]

so Mount Elbrus is warmest place in country? remind why they have to do winter Olympics in Sochi. as they know winter tourist is different than Summer tourist. The summer tourism is byproduct of Infrastructure built for winter tourism. i fully expect those who have higher income to enjoy even colder regions. Summer tourism is forced upon people due School holidays. It is not discretionary.

Nobody lives on Mt. Elbrus but the surrounding region is the warmest in the country, so it's a moot point to make. By that logic, Sinai Peninsula in Egypt isn't a warm place because it snows on Jabal Mousa (Mount Sinai).

Sochi and surroundings are temperate in the winter and warm in the summer, thus ideal domestic destination for tourism year-round. Compare this to other places in Russia that have historical & cultural value, like St. Petersburg which is temperate for most of the summer and cold in the winter.

 

[_killuminati_]

3500-4000 Pentagon "officials"..

So the red line of US troops has been breached many years ago. The next salami slice that US is attempting is to move in more troops and equipment to Taiwan.

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The US government has sent around 200 soldiers to Taiwan to provide military training amid increasing tensions with China, according to a

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by Taiwan News.

What kind of training is this that only happens when tensions are high?

 

[siegecrossbow]

What kind of training is this that only happens when tensions are high?

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Meanwhile, when Emperor Wen asked Gao for tactics in preparing to conquer Chen, Gao suggested harassing Chen's border regions in two ways: sending troops on exercise without actually attacking, to cause Chen's farmers to be on alert and unable to farm and causing Chen's guards to be down when an actual attack would come; and to send spies to burn Chen's border farmlands. Emperor Wen agreed, and these tactics helped damage Chen's resistance capabilities.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

What kind of training is this that only happens when tensions are high?

this is why I said they're barrier troops. What training? Training the Taiwanese to fight, or else. That is the only training that is valuable under increasing tensions - the training to fight to the death.

 

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this is why I said they're barrier troops. What training? Training the Taiwanese to fight, or else. That is the only training that is valuable under increasing tensions - the training to fight to the death.

I was thinking it more like in case of conflict where US wants to get involved against China, it would be an easier sell to the American public that 'US troops have been attacked in Taiwan' versus 'Taiwan has been attacked'.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

I was thinking it more like in case of conflict where US wants to get involved against China, it would be an easier sell to the American public that 'US troops have been attacked in Taiwan' versus 'Taiwan has been attacked'.

They already had "trainers" on Taiwan for that. There is no additional value to tripwire forces in Kinmen since there is no circumstance where Kinmen would be liberated but Taiwan would not be liberated.

However there is immense value in barrier troops in Kinmen, since historically, it has been where the most ROC troops have defected to mainland China.

Kinmen is also the most resistant to Taiwan's independence regime, as they have called for expelling Taiwanese troops from Kinmen.

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That lingering potential for invasion might make it seem like an unlikely place to construct a bridge to mainland China. Except, that’s exactly what many residents are calling for.

The idea of a bridge to mainland China is part of a wider proposal, unveiled in full earlier this year by a cross-party alliance of eight local councilors, to turn Kinmen into a demilitarized zone (DMZ) – or so-called “peace island.”

The proposal envisages removing all of Taiwan’s troops and military installations from the islands and turning Kinmen into a setting for Beijing-Taipei talks aimed at “de-escalating tensions.” It sees the bridge, which would stretch between Kinmen and Xiamen, as a way of boosting economic ties.