Israel and United States Are Taking a Diplomatic Pounding

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[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

President Erdogan won’t be getting any invites from Bibi Netanyahu for this year’s Hanukkah Party after he insisted that Hamas is not a terrorist organization but a liberation movement. That turn of the phrase destroyed any chance of Turkey mediating the Israeli Hamas war. Most worrisome is that Erdogan’s latest speech is a veiled threat to intervene militarily. If that occurs, say good-bye to NATO.

That really is a BFD. Without Incerlick AFB, the US presence and ability to function in the Middle-East drops to near zero. Without Turkey, NATO is done.

I suspect that this is why the US was asking Israel to "pause."

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

By the way, sonar21 is now hardbanned by Reddit.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It seems like only the best sites are.

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At this rate, I think that the Way of the Bern sub had zero choice but to move onto Saidit or another alternative like Lemmy.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When they start banning the Archive links, that will be the nail in the coffin.

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https://archive.ph/IuR7p

At this rate, the US is going to be the pariah nation after a few more of these events.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Neo-libs are getting desperate I think, with Ukraine going badly. They needed another distraction. It looked to be working, so far. But if the region region flips to BRICS+, the Neo-libs are lost.

Sleepwalking Our Way Into World War Three

With this weaponization of the dollar, I think we've overplayed our hand. Weaponizing the dollar with sanctions. You're now seeing a lot of countries de-dollar their transactions because we've sort of forced it. This goes beyond Russia, China, and Iran because countries like Brazil or India still want to transact with Russia and they can't do it with dollars, so we've forced them to de-dollarize their transactions, thus weakening the strength of the dollar in the world.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What's so telling is that BRICS has been around for over a decade and has been expanding its reach in plain view over the past several years. It astounds me that average people who stay informed saw this coming. I suppose it isn't that the neolibs didn't see it but that they were as dismissive of its ever having a significant impact as the neocons have been about the resilience of Russia's economy and capacity to become more militarily powerful than they've been since the 1980s.