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Thank you for your detailed response and some of it is certainly new to me.    Firstly, I'm also of the opinion that to call it a genocide or ethnic cleansing is wide of the mark. There are

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On the contrary, they're destroying Syria's stocks of chemical and other weapons that could be used catastrophically if they got into the wrong hands.

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I must have missed the bit where the ICC (or the ICJ) actually ruled that Israel had engaged in genocide, because I don't believe it has.

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Biden imposes 100% tariff on China made electric cars...all very trumpian. Will we do same?

 

I just read about that actually, how Biden wants to also look tough on China, as Trump was. Biden and the Dems would never say that Trump was right however. 

 

In the last couple of years Germany (I live in Germany, hence why I'm including them in the discussion 😛) has already mulled over tariffs on cars to protect their own production and have blocked deals from Chinese investors trying to gain sizeable chunks of companies in all kinds of sectors. Hamburg's port, semiconductors, and medical equipment providers. Which is hilarious given that Merkel was warning Trump not to start a trade war with China just five years ago. 

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Don't know if it fits in international 

or UK but, thoughts? Alongside the slow build up of war propaganda recently around conscription and the like.

 

This is essentially saying fight them directly in Ukraine or it'll be a Nato country next and we'll have to fight them there.

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Don't know if it fits in international 

or UK but, thoughts? Alongside the slow build up of war propaganda recently around conscription and the like.

 

This is essentially saying fight them directly in Ukraine or it'll be a Nato country next and we'll have to fight them there.

 

Well yes Russia could defeat Ukraine over the next few months...Russia has been building and buying a sh*t loads of weapons, and has more people to throw at it, and Ukraine are kind of exhausted and supplies have been cut over the last 6 months because of Reublicans blocking things in senate (under command of Trump apparently). So a push over this summer is expected, and looks like it has started. But Ukraine will now start getting more weapons from US etc so may or may not be able to resist.

So Russia push might win and they take the whole of Ukraine, or Ukraine holds them off and then there is another counteroffensive and they push Russia back to its borders, or most likely there is some sort of deal maybe after US election and Ukraine loses some of its land to Russia but becomes a member or closer to Nato. Whether that would be acceptable to Putin who knows. If Trump gets in who knows. Say Trump is in and starts talking about pulling out of Nato or less funds for Nato or whatever, and then Russia take Ukraine, and then start on Estonia, what do european nations do? What does Poland do? Or Germany?

Or Putin falls out of a window and some nice guy takes over.

We are definitely heading into turbulent times though, Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, China-Taiwan. All the ingredients are there, and lots more countries have nukes these days. And to top it off we have the possibility of Trump getting into office, and f**k knows what that will throw into the mix.

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netanyaho  is in a spot, if he say what hes going to do he'll get slaughtered, and if he doesn't  say what he's going to do  he's criticised for not saying.

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