"What if technology was... (wait for it)... just technology, you ape with a gun"
Technology is neither good nor bad, it's how you use it. The intent of Black Mirror is to make you think about how you use technology... but of course if you blame technology for your own actions, it doesn't work.
Please look again at the map for the Unified Deep Water System.
This isn't about having a port on the Black Sea, it's about having ships from ports in inland Russia getting unobstructed waterway access to the Black Sea, from where they can go to the Mediterranean and beyond.
Russia has access to the Black Sea through the Sea of Azov, which is controlled by whoever controls Crimea... and to maintain control over Crimea, Russia needs supply lines over a land access at least across the Donbass, not just through a bridge that can be bombed at any time, as it has been already.
Both the Donbass and Crimea, Ukraine considers to be Ukrainian land, even though the history of both areas is plagued by forced resettlements during the USSR times.
Additionally, there are natural resources, some ports, and a nuclear plant in the Donbass area, which Russia would happily take over.
You're right, I've checked my notes and it mentions Shell; technically British now, post-BREXIT, but it has branches all over the world.
Anyway, the problem with those $400B is... if a corporation can sell for $400B and it only costs them $200B to extract and distribute it plus $20B to kill everyone in Gaza... that's $180B of "clean" money (just dripping some blood). Shell's yearly revenue is $380B, with a net income of $40B, so they're just the kind who might consider it a reasonable 5-10 year plan.
Wait until you hear it's not "under Gaza" but under the sea, in what would be Gaza's "economic influence" area... and that the Palestinian Authority has been in talks with Egypt to extract it, while Israel has been in talks with US corporations.
The gas is expected to be worth about 400 billion USD.
The difference between Putin and Israel is... that Putin "rescued", relocated, and gave a bunch of children to surrogate families, before bombing their parents.
I mean... that's "technically" less inhumane, or something?
But no, seriousnessly, get a pinch of lazy, add a pinch of troll, throw in some euphemism, mix thoroughly for a while, and shit happens, like birds and bees.
There were already Arab vs. Zionist clashes before it, and they would have continued with or without a resolution that nobody was following. Only thing the British can be seen at fault for, is leaving without having enforced 181... which meant leaving Israel alone to fight a war against a coordinated attack from multiple Arab countries at once. Not precisely "cowtowing" to Israel.
Modern terrorist groups are the result of Israel going against its own Declaration of Independence where it promised to follow 181, and instead trying to get exclusive control of the whole territory... while Palestinians are getting pummeled, but still also refuse to consider a two-state solution, leaving them in an underdog position where all they can do is some terrorist attacks and wait to get destroyed.
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You didn't need to enable it again, since they forgot to disable it.
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