Wow, I really struck a nerve here. Maybe if you applied all this energy to removing your neoliberal overlords from power your country might actually have a future that isn't just being a tourist trap for American and Chinese tourists, but I guess it's just easier to mald at a random internet stranger.
You begged us to stick our noses in everywhere because Europe and then Europe and Asia started two world wars that killed about a hundred million people combined, and you were terrified of commies. If you want your governments to stop asking us to be everywhere - which every government but like 15 in the world still asks us to do to this day - then elect governments that stop asking us. And that don't throw tantrums the instant someone like Trump says we shouldn't be subsidizing the geopolitical power of nearly every other country in the world ffs
Fear of rural inbreds taking over? I don't get it either sometimes. I do think when Rahmon dies there will be a power vacuum in Tajikistan, especially when rural Tajiks tend to be Islamist from what little I know.
I hope we see Trump angry/slighted enough to go against the Israel lobby.
We literally had a glopespanning empire in WW2, the dollar was the primary currency for international trade by the 1920s, and America was the power in de facto control of an entire hemisphere. We'd taken the Philippines from the Spanish in the 1890s and held it until 1946, in spite of a period of Japanese control. Fuck, we opened Japan to the world! We even had a concession in Shanghai right there with the French and British.
Positioning assets to bring down the thunder should we be attacked, or deter Iran from attacking us for popping some BMs is the right play.
The entire global economic system post-Bretton Woods is built upon the dominance of the dollar, and that dominance is perpetuated by the fact that we unilaterally ensure freedom of navigation across the world. I definitely agree that we're way too overextended and that this isn't sustainable, but we're not the same industrial powerhouse that serves as the foundation for our dominance, and if we went completely cold turkey and became completely isolationist we'd be absolutely fucked.
My deepest condolences, please be well and do not die of the many illnesses those of Jewish descent are very prone to suffering from.
This was posted earlier by @Catch The Rainbow. I know, I lateposted it too.
They have shot over a hundred missiles in a few barrages, most of which were stopped midair. The Times of Israel has been live blogging the last couple of days, and it's better than this (featured) thread tbh. Most of the missiles of any note that hit Israel have hit random places in urban or suburban areas. It seems like a couple random people in Israel have died, and under a hundred injuries otherwise. Drones were launched early but it seems like most if not all were intercepted in the airspace between Israel and Iran. Jordan and the US have probably helped to some extent.
I have him on ignore because he's jewish and annoying.
Wrong, mass-immigration was never from Iraq, Syria or Libya and it's still not from these countries. How many Syrian refugees have you met? I can count them on the fingers on ONE hand. The migrants come from Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Somalia etc! It started in the 70's and has increased every year because traveling from these shit-holes has become increasingly easy with low cost flying and the improvement of international travel
They fared fairly well early on as a result of WW1 and WW2 veterans/paramilitaries composing the bulk of their armed forces as well as technological superiority. Shit like the Six Day War (1967) and Arab-Israeli (194
wars were won thanks in part to the veterancy of the forces as well as the quality of equipment they had (though I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Israel attacked first in both instances). The nations which attacked them in this period were similarly fresh but not packing the same levels of military experience and quality equipment under their belts. The War of Attrition ('67 to '70) that followed the Six Day War was meant to rob Israel of these advantages via persistence and scattered random strikes, but it was negligible. The closest Israel probably got to ruin was the Yom Kippur war, a war where the opposing side struck first and in surprise (for once) but this war saw Israel receive absolute shitloads of aid from the US whilst Soviet attempts to do the same saw them split between trying to arm two different states (Egypt and Syria) and with much inferior equipment. Also volunteers from neighbouring Muslims states to Egypt and Syria were more a hindrance than a boon and didn't help with logistics. Still, Egypt got pushed back to the Suez and Israel was able to push into Syria. 