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Feels like Trump's ties to the Saudis and Emeratis don't get enough attention. The Russia stuff is definitely important as well but in these cases you have business dealing with actual state officials.

Edit: actually the other thing was with Oman not the UAE.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-business-deal-with-oman-raises-new-ethical-questions

Gorsuch is definitely one of the better conservative justices. Really Thomas and Alito are the only irredeemable ones. Kavanaugh, admittedly I don't know enough about to say much.

That doesn't solve the lack of labor available though.

Main reason it's news worthy is that Clinton actually did pardon his brother. Trump would absolutely pardon any family members though.

No doubt. Starting to look more and more like none of these other 3 cases will be resolved before the election.

It's a team of prosecutors that started at 4, now is at 3 after Wade got kicked off. Now it would be down to 2 if she steps down. Typically simpler cases only have 1 prosecutor so if most of the legwork is done they might be able to proceed with 2 or add someone. I agree though this case is much bigger than one persons career.

BRICS is less about alliances, in fact the UAE and Iran are enemies to the level of the US and Russia. It's more about reducing the influence of Western sections on global politics. Basically anyone not reliant on the West financially would benefit from joining BRICS since it reduces the leverage the West has over them.

ETA: it's a similar concept to OPEC where many countries are outright enemies.

Ah OK, I can't read apparently. I thought you meant the attacks from Iraqi militias have been going on longer than the current Israeli invasion. I agree with your original comment.

For these particular groups the article says the exact opposite.

But on Nov. 2 they claimed their first ever attack on Israel.

In general it is pretty rare for anyone to directly attack Israel other than groups they created through their various occupations, mainly Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.

I'm pretty doubtful that much progress has been made to destroy Hamas. They use Israeli unexploded ordinance to make bombs which they now have more than they know what to do with, and they couldn't ask for a better recruiting tool than this war. At a certain point you have to be realistic about the situation and realize they will have to deal with Hamas in negotiations.

Axios seems to have some more details in this article:

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/01/israel-gaza-hostage-ceasefire-deal-confirms-biden

Basically the deal is a temporary cease fire that would then allow negotiations for a full ceasefire after that. It's a gamble, but the US seems to think that if they can get the conflict to a very low grade state, they can convince the Israeli's not to go back in. In a vacuum this isn't a terrible strategy, but there is broad public support for the war in Israel and the ruling coalition knows their days are numbered if there is no war. Even a temporary ceasefire is better than nothing though.

However, the three Egyptian intelligence sources told MEE that Burns was among several mediators who reviewed the draft before it was sent to Israel.

So they could be lying, but MEE is saying their sources are Egyptian intelligence familiar with the negotiation. I don't think your characterization of the article is correct.

I feel like the mere reminder that Hillary exists is a detriment to Dems electoral prospects.

Yep. And the subheading I really have a problem with.

Reading too much into the language seems, at this point, to be less of a danger than reading too little into it.

The implication being that it's low stakes to make this accusation without solid evidence. In reality the whole justification from the West for the state of affairs between Israel and Palestine is that Arabs are a bunch of backwards savages, and this extends to the way the West has acted throughout the Middle East.

It was a consulate which is also covered by the Geneva convention as all diplomatic missions are. There really isn't a significant distinction here.

This is the closest question in the survey to the article title (which I couldn't bypass the paywall on):

Looks like net favorability is still positive for continued support to Ukraine even absent more US aid outside of southern Europe.

Unfortunately most of the world's cobalt comes from the DRC, so I doubt any automaker's supply chain is clean of child labor.

The leaks were legit, the guy got prosecuted and everything. Snopes thinks they're legit as well as every other major media outlet:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/04/13/ukraine-war-plans-leak-discord-server/

The Pentagon leaks should give some insights here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-ukrainians-killed-putins-war-leaked-documents-2023-4?op=1

The US estimated that about 16.5k UA soldiers were killed in about the first year and change of fighting so the 31k estimate is possible after 3 years but seems pretty low. It would extrapolate out to about 45k, but the fighting has been different every year.

Edit: apparently it's only been 2 years of fighting, my bad, numbers from Zelensky look pretty legit to me then.

Well Germany didn't acknowledge the Namibia genocide until 2021. They're fine with acknowledging the Holocaust since they can pin that on a rouge actor, the Nazi's. Since they can't pin their support for Israel on anyone else, they have trouble acknowledging Israel's conduct.