I’m sure Elon can do it.

Pushing back not to debate-lord but to test these ideas out. I am not sure either.

I certainly don’t think morality or norms constrain Israel here. But I’m doing my best to think in a materialist manner here so morality nor norms come into it anyway.

The more Israel pushes in, the closer they push into the caliphate, the more likely conflict is with the caliphate. So I see Israeli expansion as self-limiting.

The supply lines into Syria are shit and naturally choked via Golan. If they can’t push into Lebanon, they can’t push into a 2nd or 3rd tier city in Syria. If they can’t sustain operations in Gaza and 3km north of Israel, they can’t sustain operations 10s to 100 kms from Israel via Golan.

The “Greater Israel” faction is real and influential, but that’s a centuries long project not a mad dash into Kursk. Hopefully they try and incite the Caliphate into being another Hezbollah but I think they’re probably smarter than that.

In bad Korea the president sends police into parliament if they don’t obey

Literally the last thing you’ll see before the world ends

Sometimes the tail wags the dog.

SK press can be hysterical about NK, and Ukraine will run with any news story. After that the vibes just flow.

That’s what happens when you shock therapy your own economy

Saudi Arabia ‘open’ to petroyuan, closer China ties, minister says

A top official from Saudi Arabia said the country is “open to new ideas” – including use of the yuan in crude settlements

“The Petroyuan is not substantial to [the ministry], we believe Saudi Arabia will do what’s in its best interest … but I think Saudi Arabia will always try new things, and is open to new ideas, and we try not to mix politics with commerce,” Khorayef said in an interview on Saturday in Hong Kong.

In classic German fashion they have in fact cut funding to Ukraine but it won’t fully take effect until 2027. It takes skill to piss literally everyone off like that.

You’re being very generous with that pluralization.

Bespoke: Britain invented Zionism as a two birds one stone colonialist plot

At this point I think you can add “Russia takes Kyiv” to your bingo card as a still-unlikely but once again plausible outcome of this war going by the way the eastern front is collapsing.

https://www.hoover.org/research/welfare-well-how-business-subsidies-fleece-taxpayers

And fuck I just realized this article is from 1999 so it is probably closer to a trillion now