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The IOF really gets it's panties twisted so easily lmao

The IMF is fucked. Anyone wondering why countries prefer dealing with China need only compare the terms given by the IMF against the terms given by China. Chinese loan terms aren't only "reasonable": compared to the IMF, they look like you're robbing China blind.

could you post the haaretz article?

something about having fewer degrees of separation from the news itself (more news less commentary, same complaints I have for people posting US articles on world affairs)

You're against genocide? That sounds antisemitic.

Not world news

Not news

Oh for sure. For what it's worth, in the events leading up to the ah-Ahli massacre it's also known that Israel struck the homes of the hospital administrators of ah-Ahli that had refused to evacuate the hospital after Israel's demands and warnings.

A whole lot of coincidences...

Israel has mapped the entire Gaza Strip in the surface. I have no reason to believe that they simply got "lucky".

Israel is a developed country, so I'd assume so.

Europe is extremely far away from the South/East Asian powers. They basically have no interests in the region because the people there didn't want the Europeans.

Go look a bit closer. China's wave of investment in Africa has coincided directly with a massive increase in development and industrialization in Africa, something that wasn't achieved over the many decades of Western support.

"Predatory loans" are disingenuous: the value of infrastructure often isn't in the direct operation of it, but in the knock-on effects that has on the economy at large. If someone told me they wanted to build a subway system for free so long as they get all the fare revenue, I'd tell them to go right along. If someone told me they wanted to build a hydroelectric dam so long as they get all the revenue from selling that electricity to the grid, I'd tell them to get the project started already. Moreover, the entire point of this infrastructure is to move African countries off of their entirely resource-based economies.

Soft power is dead because the two most recent Presidents of the US are completely incompetent at it.

China and Russia and India are happily projecting soft power even as the US seems to have forgot how.

Stop attacking the... US military... In Syria? Did Syria consent to those bases being there?

The US is the occupier here. What is it with people and siding with the occupiers?

I actually disagree, I think there should be some sense of international obligation to help countries recover from natural disasters.

Unfortunately, the Global South (China, India, etc.) can't really get too involved in Mexico because of the Monroe Doctrine and the US is preoccupied with Palestine/Ukraine.

surely terrorism couldn't be because of the overthrow of s Democratically elected leftist governments in the Middle East that spawned multiple right-wing theocratic regimes...

Hamas wants Israel to stop indiscriminately bombing civilians in Gaza in exchange... Sounds perfectly reasonable to me idk

Putting Jewish people into buses for protesting... Damn America, could you at least try to keep the mask on?

Thai gov says 18, don't spread misinformation

Dual citizenship

Journalists are a very small proportion of the population and are afforded protections in combat. The murder of journalists (and their families) and aid workers (and their families) either shows extreme negligence or an intent to seek retribution for some perceived slight.

The Minsk Agreements were signed with the West explicitly planning to break them and only use them to "buy time" for Ukraine.

The 2022 peace deal would have restored Ukraine's borders. Both sides had agreed to terms until good ol' Boris decided to come through and fuck things up. This has been widely confirmed by officials in Germany, the US, Israel, Russia, and Ukraine.

It's important to understand that Russia's goal in Ukraine isn't to capture territory, but to protect it's heartland from conflict (a la Cuban Missile Crisis, Monroe Doctrine, etc.) Russia's core aim is to prevent NATO from getting ever closer to Moscow because Russian defensive doctrine relies on defence in depth and that falls apart if someone can launch a decapitating strike on your capital with conventional means. It's important to remember that from 1983-1992, Russia had adopted a NFU nuclear policy that was only repealed once it became apparent that NATO would not adopt one in return.