They might as well have just given it to Trump. They’ve destroyed their credibility worse than it already was.

Evidently military escalation is peaceful and orderly.

Thanks Nobel committee! You really introduced us to a great thinker.

It’s murder and terrorism even if they were positively identifying drug traffickers.

It’s the Israeli promise: you cease, we fire!

Downvoting doesn’t stop you from reading the opinion?

When I was younger it seemed politics were more rational and cruelty never seemed to be the point of doing nothing.

The cruelty was outside our borders. The rational, reasonable debate was for domestic issues. Foreigners got the bullet.

As the empire collapses the cruelty turns inwards i.e. fascism.

The secret to increasing profit is to cut costs, always, no matter what. Research? Workforce development? Safety? Just keep cutting costs, shareholders love it!

What do you mean we’re falling behind? We’ve cut so many costs, growth is infinite!

Fuck the Iranian and Israeli dictator governments

You have to choose. You can’t just say “fuck everyone!” and pretend like your stance means anything. Pick one.

The math is 62% accurate? Is that what that’s saying?

No he doesn’t. He can just make shit up! That’s what he’s doing to send soldiers to US cities, after all.

Well hold on.

Do you have a flag??

I half expect this to be another pump-and-dump scheme - he tells the insiders he’s going to make this announcement so they can trade on the tariff threat before everyone else, then tells the insiders he’s going to walk it back so they can trade on the relief before everyone else. All the insiders can make money both on the downswing and the upswing while the rest of us suffer.

She understood the assignment. 🇺🇸 🤡

Israel does not have a right to exist.

On the one hand she’s clearly a CIA asset that wants Venezuela’s oil privatized, and this is in the buildup to a US invasion. On the other hand I like to think Trump is fuming that he still hasn’t gotten his prize and that he’ll abandon the invasion idea just to punish Venezuela’s opposition for taking his prize.

I’m coming for that toothbrush 😈

This is bad analysis.

They’re gonna do a false flag on Venezuela because they want to destroy a left-wing government. The fact that it will distract from the Epstein files is a positive side effect, but they are enacting an agenda beyond it.

Obviously Eastern civilization was also shaped by the crusades? I’m just describing the historical forces that lead us to this point and pointing out that Islamophobia isn’t the “new global currency of power” as claimed by the OP. It’s as old as the West as a sociopolitical force of history.

In different historical conditions where the Caliphate conquered the Americas instead of Christendom the exact opposite would have happened, maybe Europe would have been colonized by Asia, but that’s not the world we live in.

But now the Caliphate and the Ottomans are gone. The West conquered the world and colonized the East, so hatred of Islam has become normalized by the hegemon because the West rules the world. But it’s not new.

Be careful with statements like that because one could just as easily reverse them.

I have no idea what you’re trying to say?

My statement is that Western civilization grew out of the crusades, the reason Europe pretends to be a different continent from the rest of Asia. Its the foundation for the Doctrine of Discovery, for Manifest Destiny, for Orientalism and the whole colonial period. It’s what created the West as a sociopolitical force in history.

You can’t reverse it without reversing history. You’d have to let the Caliphate be the ones that conquered the Americas to actually create the reverse situation.

The Fall of Acre to the Mamluks marks the final expulsion of the Crusaders from the Holy Land, though the last major Crusades continued into the late 13th century.

Yes, and Columbus wanted to start another Crusade by opening a Western passage to Asia. The fact that he ran into another continent is the only reason he didn’t try to take back Jerusalem.

But they never stopped! The Europeans took back Jerusalem when they defeated the Ottomans in WW1, then in the 1940s they established Israel as a new crusader state with the stroke of a pen. Instead of Christendom we have Judeochristian values, but there’s a clear continuity.

The point is, the OP is not describing anything new. This is all part of the precession of history, the same historical forces that created the West are still in play today.

This is nothing new. One of the reasons Columbus was trying to find Western passage to Asia was to launch another crusade; finance it by opening Western trade routes and to strategically coordinate it by giving invaders a Western corridor to the holy land. Killing Muslims and eradicating Islam is basically the foundation of Western civilization and modernity.