Which was not happening, when Serhii K blew it up, as the pipeline was shut down already. Also by that logic international trade in general is sabotage to independence.

This thing is incredibly dumb on so many levels. Russia wanted to cut off Germany and did so. This however does not stop Russia from resuming deliveries on a technical level. So it could not stop that discussion in Germany. At the same time it hurt Ukraine a lot, as Germany did not consider them trustworthy at all, for a very good reason.

Stop spreading Russian propaganda. The pipelines to Norway are enough to meet German gas consumption. German independence was never an issue. In fact one of the four pipelines is still in working order and has not been used since, because of that. Russia did shut them down before that, so they were not even used to pay for the war.

However Germany has to prosecute, because not doing so would allow Russia to attack the pipelines to Norway, which are needed. If Germany lets this slip, then it allows Russia to attack them.

and other minorities

Countries with large native minorities usually teach using the native language. For example in the UK there are Welsh medium schools for native Welsh speakers. This is usually not done for migrants, but only for local native languages. In the case of China there are more then a dozen none Chinese native languages with over a million speakers. For some you could easily set up universities and so forth.

The Chinese Super League had 6.1million tickets sold last season. It is a pretty decent size league.

Is that the neo-colonial repression of justice for crimes against humanity?

Body bags?

They replaced the Venezuelan president with a sort of US puppet. It is not crazy to presume that that would lead to sanctions being lifted to make business easier with Venezuela. Especially since there is a massive oil crisis right now.

Australian media tends to focus on Australia…

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.