The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5hr ago
The Israelis could do to the West Bank what they did with Gaza -- withdraw all the Jewish settlements by force and let the PA run the whole thing. Why in a million years they would consider doing so given their experience with Gaza, I don't know.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5hr ago
Err, no it doesn't, because before the Russians came in the Ukrainians were in no way the Russian's problem.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5hr ago
They produced a lot of unrest in Jordan and Egypt.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Unfortunately, as long as they can conceivably get one drone through and hit a ship, they can close the Strait via the insurance cartel. I'm not sure if the United States is actually capable of setting up an insurer outside the cartel which would meet all the requirements of various international regulations and treaties.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think they're reading Western press and think they can win this outright.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
(are Palestinians and Arabs different population now?)
Non-Israeli Palestinians seem to be a generally hated (by other Arabs as well as by Israeli Jews) subpopulation of Arabs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
More likely the refugees left on the grounds that whether the Ukranians ever recovered Mariupol or not, they'd be better off in Ukranian-controlled territory than Russian.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
So says the cartel.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The reason that is in their "peace plan" is so they can drop that clause during negotiations so they seem "reasonable" and "comprising".
The USA has similar maximalist demands currently that will obviously be dropped in the final deal.
Or, in both cases, because they don't really want a negotiated peace.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Okay so if I change my comment above to: "I would consider the West Bank to an occupied part of Israel. I don't really care about de jure "ownership" because Israel clearly control access to the West Bank and maintains a monopoly of force over it. "
No, it is not an occupied part of Israel; that would imply almost the opposite (e.g. South Lebanon is now an occupied part of Lebanon, not Israel). It is an occupied land for which no permanent sovereign exists, which is a strange state, certainly, but distinct from being part of Israel.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Did this even happen? No one wants to spend the capex to rebuild Venezuelas bpd capacity.
One problem Venezuela was having is they couldn't even ship their own oil without imported naphtha, which they were getting shipped via the shadow fleet -- which the US was blocking and seizing. So while they can't rebuild their domestic capacity quickly, now that they can get naphtha without restriction, at least one bottleneck is gone.
Are the heavy crude Texan refineries now taking in Venezuelan oil?
Yes. Note that a bunch of heavy crude refining capacity came on line in Mexico earlier this year, which was hurting the US refineries.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
What would you call the WB then? It's obviously not a sovereign state, as it lacks... sovereignty.
It is occupied territory.
I genuinely don't know what you're referring to here, but I'd love to know more?
Israeli Jews are forbidden from entering Area A of the West Bank.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If the situation were somehow reversed and it was Jews who needed to set up a viable state consisting of Gaza and J & S / West Bank, it would be a million times easier.
Sure, "Gazrael" would be the wealthy and thriving area, and when the Palestinians fell to infighting or attacking their neighbors, the Jews would likely take advantage to seize a contiguous territory.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I would consider the West Bank to be part of Israel.
You can call a tail a leg, but that don't make it so.
both people in Gaza and the West Bank are wildly unable to travel to various parts of Israel, or even within those territories (segregation).
If you consider the West Bank part of Israel (see above), then there are Israeli Jews who are ALSO unable to travel to various parts of Israel.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The Palestinians left on the promise the Arabs would kill all the Jews and then they'd go back. Didn't work out so well. I don't see Israeli Jews falling for that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
As far as I know they haven't done anything at all, their only real success at sea is using drones to hit tanker ships.
Which is, it turns out, sufficient.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
New York, along with basically every other place in America, has a surplus of single males under 40. It appears to have a surplus of single women overall mostly because women die later.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Hopefully also not terribly controversial, but shooting tens of thousands of your own citizens does not actually fix the issues, but tends to make them worse.
No, it works fine. Ask China about the Tiananmen Square protests. (But don't ask anyone young because they've never heard of them)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
So in your opinion is the concept of a "bunker buster" just a lie?
The Iranians had bunkers deep enough to defeat the USs largest bunker busters.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
We bombed it earlier, it made no difference. We can keep bombing the entrances to their facilities, but they can keep digging them out. So either we have to keep bombing forever (which means the war didn't end), or they're going to be able to restart the nuclear program where they left off. We actually have to take the nuclear material and take or destroy the centrifuges before we've actually set them back.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Both are coup-complete problems, however.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Uh, they don't obliterate all their competition. If they try, their exports get seized. If you're assuming a hypercompetent Iran and a US which will do nothing you're in a dream world.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Best case scenario, Iran's ground forces are weaker than expected, you take an island with minimal casualties and now Iran can no longer extort passing ships or export oil.
No, I expect the US to continue to allow Iran to export oil.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Institutional safeguards only work when the implementing institution wishes to obey them.
To be fair I hate all insurance companies, most especially those who have managed to make their product mandatory. If car insurance weren't a racket, you wouldn't have people paying cash to other people in a fender-bender to avoid the accident being reported to their insurance company. And you wouldn't have the insurance companies having the state prosecute this as insurance fraud.
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