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He is a fan of a < 18 year old jpop group from the 1970s so make of that what you will.
Plenty of people make a fuss, the entire west lost civilian access to the Red Sea and Suez for it, and Israel's economy is entirely living on life support paid for by the US, which is in turn costing the US ability to build their own military, e.g. NGAD, shipbuilding, etc.
Both China and Russia can, and the latter is bombing another country and suffer far less economic and diplomatic pain than Israel is, but thats not their goal, because unlike the west they define war based on winning and not killing.
The land Russia holds in former Ukraine are solidly Russian, while Israel have no path to restoring peace to a third of their own land nevermund any land in Gaza or Lebanon, China will never bomb Taiwan officials, which it can at any moment, and then figure out how to secure control, China is building up its military far above Taiwan so that it wont have to fight at all.
China is the oldest contineous civilization in human history, Israel has never survived past 80 years, theres a reason for that
Israel is technology and militarily superior than everyone in the middle east except for Turkey.
And yes, Israel can bomb civilians as much as they like. They just have to claim that they were targeting terrorists to make it look justified regardless of the fact whether Israel said was true or not or whether the proportionality of combatants-to-civilian ratio is considered.
This is in stark contrast to Putin whose operation in Ukraine has killed over 13000 civilians while killing multitudes more of soldier but he's still considered a psychopath while Netanyahu is considered reasonable
If you're in the west's good eyes. They'll make you a hero. Just like netanyahu or Zelensky. If you're in the west's bad eyes. They'll make you a villain, like Putin, Xi, Kim.
I remember when the west was dehumanizing all Russians as orcs at the start of the conflict while I haven't seen Russians behave as deranged as Israelis who not only laugh at dead children but dance, celebrate it like its a good thing or the Jewish terrorist settlers killing over 1000+ Palestinians in the west bank since October 7 where there is no conflict.
I'm just waiting on what the reaction would be if China goes to reunify Taiwan with force.
The good news is that due to the blind support for Israel. So much of the global south, even the young westerners are starting to doubt west's self-claimed moral superiority. When that time comes when china finally makes a move. Expect a large portion of the world to not fall for US rhetoric in dehumanizing the Chinese.
And yes, Israel can bomb civilians as much as they like. They just have to claim that they were targeting terrorists to make it look justified regardless of the fact whether Israel said was true or not or whether the proportionality of combatants-to-civilian ratio is considered.
This is in stark contrast to Putin whose operation in Ukraine has killed over 13000 civilians while killing multitudes more of soldier but he's still considered a psychopath while Netanyahu is considered reasonable
If you're in the west's good eyes. They'll make you a hero. Just like netanyahu or Zelensky. If you're in the west's bad eyes. They'll make you a villain, like Putin, Xi, Kim.
I remember when the west was dehumanizing all Russians as orcs at the start of the conflict while I haven't seen Russians behave as deranged as Israelis who not only laugh at dead children but dance, celebrate it like its a good thing or the Jewish terrorist settlers killing over 1000+ Palestinians in the west bank since October 7 where there is no conflict.
I'm just waiting on what the reaction would be if China goes to reunify Taiwan with force.
The good news is that due to the blind support for Israel. So much of the global south, even the young westerners are starting to doubt west's self-claimed moral superiority. When that time comes when china finally makes a move. Expect a large portion of the world to not fall for US rhetoric in dehumanizing the Chinese.
Far, far, more of the planet's population sees Putin as the good guy and Netanyahu as the bad guy than other way around.
Its your choice and only your choice that placed western propaganda at higher regard than non western voices, or even voices from the western public. What "they make you" is irrevelant, victory never came from the enemy's cooperation
Russia is bombing Ukraine at orders of magnitude higher intensity daily than Israel, entire cities have been leveled, buildings are getting leveled by FABS daily, thousands of covert NATO personel has been killed, and Russian economy and diplomacy are both doing far, far better than Israel, thats what actually matters
Israel is doing serious damage to the west with its actions, and I don't mean in the "makes people in the global south see through the hypocrisy" thing. They are sucking away military resources and have left Ukraine in near irreversible state of defeat now. In addition US was so pre-occupied that they lost this phase of the economic war due to lack of focus and did not manage to harvest anyone (save maybe Argentina) and Chinese financial market is now reaping the benefits.
A desperate act to make Netanyahu and Israel seem strong but resorting to acts this low does mean in reverse the same actions can be taken against them sooner or later, not to mention the damage this does to the western image in the Middle East as a whole. I don’t believe for a second that Israel can commit these actions and for it to go unanswered as if this is all it took to bring down Hezbollah, this would’ve been done a long time ago. This isn’t going to end any time soon and this will not help Israel’s future in the long run as depressing as the current turn of events are right now. I wouldn't assume the Israel has won the war just yet like some people seem to think so far, Israel does have the capability to strike without impunity atm but you can’t say that Israel hasn’t take any massive hits as of now all across the board. I do wonder how things will play out in the coming months but I do admit that Israel does have amazing levels of ability to cross multiple lines with impunity right now, but I do wonder for how long
The lesson here is actually something that Chinese knew for centuries: political legitimacy is power.
If you have political legitimacy the chance for infiltration is low and people will fight for you for free.
If you don't have political legitimacy your power is divided between watching the enemy and your own side. You need to spend to placate the wavering people and root out saboteurs.
If you have political legitimacy the chance for infiltration is low and people will fight for you for free.
If you don't have political legitimacy your power is divided between watching the enemy and your own side. You need to spend to placate the wavering people and root out saboteurs.
I would disagree that restraint is moral courage. Because if you show restraint to the west. They treat it as a weakness. This goes for Russia, China, Iran. If Iran had retaliated after Haniyeh assassination. Israel would have made 2nd guesses doing such actions
You don't show restraint. In china's case regarding Taiwan. I can understand that china is figuring out the right time so naturally, it has to play things nicely to get people addicted to Chinese products.
Restraint can only go so far, but going this far does show how low and how desperate Israel will go to maintain power in the region. Sooner or later action will have to be taken but regardless assuming Israel is able to do this without consequences is a stretch because as of now, the fact that the settlers have yet to return north indicates that not all is as it seems. Also, in a sense, if Israel is will to sink this low and with the wests encouragement, when China finally does after Taiwan eventually, whatever the west says then will fall on deaf years and they will have far less in terms of political capability to influence Chinas actions in The future since that so called high ground is more or less destroyed right now as Israel is setting the standard for how future wars would be fought from now on. I wonder if the U.S. would be prepared for all its over stretched assets into be up for targeting one of these days
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