The elections in Israel are next October. If Netanyahu looses, he is going on trial for corruption. Also he needs the support of the far right to govern and they hate this deal. So he rather keeps the war going to then let the next prime minister deal with this.

Something like the Epstein files only work, when you have a somewhat working democracy. Trump is already above the law and he can pardon everybody else. Also the trouble Trump can cause an American is way worse then the Epstein files.

JustStopOil!

It will be interesting to see what Israel will do. This would be a defeat for them. Currently they have two options for a victory. One is to defeat Hezbollah to the point that the Lebanese government takes full control over the country. The other one is to finish the genocide in Gaza(aka kill everybody). To me especially that one sounds like it might happen. Israel needs to kill the peace deal and this would look bad for Iran, as they are seen as a sort of protector of Gaza.

It also might just about keep Netanyahu in power, as taking Gaza would make him a hero for radical Zionists.

If you want to hurt Chinas economy, that is a great target.

Coal is mostly used to produce electricity and steel. So more electricity from solar then coal is actually good news.

However oil and gas are much harder to replace, but again we actually have a lot of the technology, it is “just” about rolling it out on scale, which is hard.

China and Russia are not members of the ICC.

Also most of them are pretty happy that Trump is busy bombing Iran and not them. But also all of them are lowering dependence on the US as much as possible, but are quite about it. At least the EU also does not like the Iranian regime terribly much.

Iran is the size of Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Both in population and area. The difference being that none of the former allies will help out with that in any meaningful way, besides maybe using their air space and the current US bases in Europe.

The scientific article is really interesting:

https://academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jopres/xjag046/8703754?login=false

So your argument is that the US would give one of the biggest military aid package to groups, they are currently at war with? Seriously?

The shitty bloody truth is, that Israel does not. They have a fairly independent defence industry and it is not like any of the Arab countries on the path to Iran can do anything about the Israeli air force flying through their air space. So Israel can keep bombing. The pieces of leverage Trump has are US aid to Israel and stuff like sanctions. However Israel can probably survive even that, given they have a fairly independent defence industry and the economy is a dumpster fire anyway. If they are mad enough Israel can survive this.

Sorry, but that is the bloody truth. Israel is an Apartheid country and it took a lot to bring down the South African original. Even that was to a large degree the whites just giving up and Israel is no where close to that.

The period after WW2 was one of two periods in Western Europe, were wealth inequality went down in the last thousand years or so. The other one was the Black Death, when a lot of people died and that lead to worker shortages. Honestly a lot of deaths in WW2 might have also been a big part of why the post war period was so pleasant.

Makes you think about the low fertility rate in a different way.

Safety from a good atmosphere during a game.

It mostly comes from US bad, therefore everybody fighting the US has to be good. The other part is that especially in the US the conservatives called everything left of the socialism. When a policy you want like public health care is socialist and the USSR was socialist, then logically they are the good guys. The USSR also ran a good bit of propaganda to pretend they are a worker paradise.

In developing countries you used to have another actually more reasonable approach to it. The USSR succeeded in actually competing with the West for a long time, broke the social order of the Russian Empire and managed to industrialize and even go to space. This was something a lot of Western colonies and countries in similar situations wanted to emulate. So they copied it. This is why countries like Vietnam are in many cases pretty nationalist besides officially being Communists.

Zuckerberg brought a ‘Wingman’: Meta CEO’s $100M yacht support vessel is also docked in Seattle

In his last term Obama tried to be nicer to Cuba and made some deals with them, which included easing on the embargo and embassies.

So is South Africa. It is just that SA is cheap to live in and with a remote US job, you have a much higher quality of life.

Having a massive car free zone is a huge obstacle and forces them to take public transit to the city centre. That is of cause part of the plan, but when you are from outside the ring, it is going to increase travel times. Just to be clear I support the idea, but this is a case of not being able to make an omelette without breaking some eggs.

Also the proposal is not going to happen anyway. Right now it would be about smaller changes, like removing parking and closing some streets, rather then a massive part of the city.

They basically just put US sports prices on football. Turns out non Americans are not willing to pay the price of a season ticket for a Champions League team to watch some smaller football nations play against each other.