The US understands very well the different religious factions. The way the West Asia region was carved into countries by the colonial powers is identical to what they did in Africa. Deliberately creating countries with internal conflicts that can be exploited for destabilizing them.

However it is easy to tell apart Siberian ethnicities from Koreans. You can also tell apart Eastern Europeans from Western Europeans, leave alone the fact that Korean is an entirely different language from Russian or the languages of the region.

Edit: regarding the languages. In Buryat people speak dialects of Mongolian. Mongolian has a shared ancestry with Turk languages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolic_languages

"Lebanon is Hezbollah". The newest hit single by the IDF known for songs like "UN is Hamas" and "elementary school girl is Hamas"

I have commented this under the article in europe

Regarding sanctions on “individuals”, we have the example of Russia after the 2014 Crimea invasion and annexation.

They dont work.

Also for a country that is considered democratic, government ministers are not some rouge individuals. They also represent the government as a whole, which in turn represent its peoples political will at the time of the election.

For sanctions to be meaningful, they must address the problematic actions of the government as a whole. So cutting diplomatic ties, pulling out of economic agreements, stopping trade in certain parts of the economy, arms embargos and so on.

When and where did they say that?

Israel has announced its intent to starve Gaza on 09. October 2023.

They have only relented slightly when they felt they went too fast for the western allies to ease into the concept. They have reiterated their intent multiple times since, including a minister stating that Israel would starve all 2 million people in Gaza to death, but the west wouldnt let it.

Still we dont see any substantial aid. If you need 500 trucks a day to maintain the most basic needs of people, sending in 50 trucks still means worsening the situation and depriving 90% of the people their needs.

Even the US demanded 350 trucks a day are still below the necessar minimum, so still intended at making things unlivable in the long run.

If he wanted Trump to win, then why wouldnt he endorse Trump? This way he would bring normal Trump/Rep voters, to what, what they usually vote for.

Also it is not plausible that the followers of a literal Nazi leader from an organization that wants to exterminate all brown people would prefer voting for a mixed race women over voting for another Nazi.

And there are a lot of right-of center voters that are on the fence that would back him over Trump- and therefore will support Shill

So he is taking votes away from Trump, helping Harris.

And how do you do that? How do you change the entrenched power in the Parties? They do not care about protests. They do not care about opinion polls. They do not care about the local levela delegates. In fact they are happy to oust Senators who try to run on a no genocide platform.

So unless you are one of the billionaire donors to the party or you start assassinating the paety elites i dont see any other way than to not vote for them.

"Enlightened" atheist centrists are often pretty similar to what they claim to be smarter about than people who follow religion and ideology.

And thinking one is "immune" because of their ability to "think critically" is a very solid step to vulnerability. You'll finde the same wordings for Q-Anon and other conspiracy theorists referring to themselves.

It causes the body to release adrenaline and noadrenaline.

In the short run that is stimulating. In the long run it is detrimental to your body.

Very simplified speaking it is chemically related to amphetamines, which are shaped in a similar way like dopamine, adrenaline and the other stimulating hormones. So they all end up interactinf with similar parts of your hormone/neurotransmitter system.

And most of the people in the area became Christians and later Muslims. Some stayed Jewish. And these are the Palestinian people inhabiting the land since thousands of years. They are the descendents of that biblical people.

Now their distant relatives who have left come back and rob them of their land. But this is a new development. And for obvious reasons 2024+ years ago there was neither Muslims nor Christians who could have been in conflict with Jews.

Blinken is making this decisions and statements in accordance with the rest of the administration, in particular presiden Biden and Vice President, up for President election Kamala Harris.