u/Dragomus

The CCP is no longer what it was decades ago, it has morphed itself into a weird amalgamation between communism and capitalism... and seeing how it can change itself without great upheaval shows it has a lasting strength that should not be underestimated.

It's current strategy is that of patience and time, slowly it will erode away resistant forces or laws in a territory it wants to incorporate.

For the ccp time is not a pressing factor in this period, nor are human lives and living years of their ruling populace.

They currently have what they need and what they covet is extra, there is nothing that they urgently require.

Likely the same strategy is playing out in Taiwan, already there is a big political party that wishes to tighten bonds with "the mainland", in 5-10 years time there will be a loud voice, created through years long whispers and propaganda, to join China directly as a state-aparte ... soon after, the merger will be completed and laws and freedoms will be eroded away until Taiwan is as much China as Hong Kong is now.

And, for now, it looks like the West will bow out, they will have build their own semiconductor facilities, both Europe and the US are already working on this.

Which causes Taiwan to have less value to keep under its wing at any cost.

Looking at Hong Kong, I don't think the CCP would ever allow it to go its own way again, it is as it is with Tibet...

Interesting how you see this, I am not Jewish, nor have *any* ties with Israel, I even have serious doubt towards Israel as it is today compared what it was meant to be in spirit.

The greed has always been there, and will be there, look at Trump and his bungalow park ... as has been the manipulation of the original tribes of the Palestinian lands, who went from small numbers to millions thanks to non indigenous people coming in, over just a few decades... None of whom came to settle there to live a happy life but had a different purpose.

But there needs to be a point where both sides' leaders have said enough, we cannot let ourselves progress by throwing us endlessly in an ever consuming fire.

And if the leadership was not willing the population should have.

From the Palestinian side this realization never came, sacrifice has become the goal.

Nor could they come to terms with the fact that Israel will *never* go away no more.

From Israel's side there was still some minor terror and humans in general have an ugly spirit to attack "the other".

But inside Gaza the Palestinians could mostly fend for themselves, and were given a lot of funds from international sources, but whatever was done with it it was not used to enrich the Palestinians.

It was better for them to have build a shiny beacon that would outshine Israel ...

He thinks by killing the Ayatollah it will all be over .... quite naive imo.

It is so strange, according to him the US is not in this fight ... but Iran has to surrender?

And then what? This is as clueless as was the "democratization" of Iraq.

If Iran surrenders, (to the US? to Israel?) what happens?

Will just the religious leadership be arrested?

Tried and banished to an island near Antarctica?

Will the populace just shrug and embrace a democracy?

Will Iranians get to see peace within a year? Or will we see a second Afghanistan rise up that falls in the same pit of oppression within 10 years?

Should Iran give up all its nuclear and military material, go oil only and be a vassal state of Israel or the US?

Will there be no one anymore who gives Israel the evil eye? Or is given the evil eye by them?

Somehow I doubt if Iran would surrender or was conquered that Israel would demilitarize itself...

Nor do I think the religious caste will EVER give up their power flowing through Iran, though Qatar is vying to become a replacement nozzle.

To add to this, the Palestinian leadership, in all its "elected" forms has been incredibly toxic over all these decades.

Not just toxic towards it's own people with murders of the common man and theft of food and funds to keep their expensive hobbies and have everybody suffer as long as the top lived in comfort, but also outward internationally.

Stabbings, bombings, murders in countries that have nothing to do with the matters at hand, all done in the name of and organized through Palestinian governmental parties under one big banner "death to Israel and israelis".

It's almost as if a recognized Palestinian state was never the goal, and there have been multiple chances, but always the credo of "Israel must burn".

Ofcourse this was repeatedly shown to be the influence of Iran.

An Iran that is just as toxic to it's own people and seems to carry only the message of annihilation of Israel towards the world.

In the end it is now a bit odd that the West is pressurized to recognize Palestine as a state, while in reality through all those years Palestine itself never wanted the recognition, it only wanted the eradication of Israel.

About the other side, while Israel for years was fairly "ok" to keep Gaza as a separate entity and who knows it might have let it become its own state in time, has had its soul pushed into the abhorrent actions it is performing now.

All this by its own dark half claiming to be the government suitable to respond to Palestinian terrorism.

This IS a stain on the Israeli soul, and there comes a time they will recognize it as such.

It's a weird sensation to stick to this as someone so far away, but I feel plain proud of all the Ukrainian forces that made this happen so successfully.

$2 billion to Trump Academy 2.0 ... $1 billion in a jar somewhere that no one remembers and is slowly being siphoned off into trumps personal slush fund.

Next time it will be "Due Process is for those who deserve it".

Just send Trump a bill for decades of non payment of use of the grounds on which the bases are located.

To use Trump's own business-tactics against him: it was prime real estate ground worth billions that the bases blocked the development of ... no exclusive reason those troops only had to be on land, could have kept a fleet on standby in the ocean or something.

It's a get lost payment, not a welcome to the USA bonus ....

10k to get lost, it's unspoken but the money is to leave the country because that is then owned by Trump.

This is a typical Trump deal, Trump gets what he wants and the other side gets ripped off.

There never will be equal footing between trading partners in a Trump deal.

Isn't Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?

Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D

It's so weird they always look outside to fix the American problems.

Instead of heavily taxing the American billionaires and giant corporations plus halving the defense budget, if only for a year or two, they expect to claim money from outside of the US to fix it all.

How much of it exists at this moment to cover the lost imported goods?

How much of the "catch-up" industry can be running efficiently enough within 2 years?

(How much of that same manufacturing will not be crippled by other measures that Trump shakes out of his pants?)

Ah, perhaps this will be the war he needs to stay on his throne indefinitely....

Yeah about that ... putin considers Alaska to still be Russian territory and wants it back ... so he whispered to agent Krasnov to take Greenland to balance it out so they both have more arctic mining possibilities again... "it is a fair deal".

This is also why Trump dreams he wants Canada as an extra state, to buffer against a Russian Alaska...

"Russia will leave Ukraine alone if it gives up all Nuclear arms."

"Russia only wants to lease the harbor of Crimea 'till about 2042."

"Russia has no soldiers in Ukraine Donbas or Crimea regions, these Russian Veterans are on holiday, can't you see that they wear unmarked uniforms?."

"Russia did not shoot down Malaysian Air MH17, it is unknown why that specific mobile missile launcher was seen driving from Russia into Ukraine and back again after firing."

"Russia started only a police action inside Ukraine to take out certain elements, should take about 3 days."

"Russia is Russia, Ukraine never existed and has no right to now."

"Russia is not at war in Ukraine, it is Russia who was attacked."

"Russia does not want parts of Europe, the people of East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia live in happy unison under the Warsaw pact and mother Russia's bosom."

"Trump and Musk will leave social security alone, privatising it is a ridiculous notion."

"Trump is a president of law and order and respects the judicial branch."

Oh wait, how did comrade Krasnov get mixed in with this....

In other words Komrade Krasnov is investing and bolstering the Russian economy, without any return offer, all on firm request of great leader putin.

Yeah uh about that ... let's brainstorm ...what if Zelensky is taken hostage on his next visit to the White House?

Or what if his plane flying him back suddenly dissappears?

Falling out a window only happens because of weird Russian glass, yes?

"The great peacemaker" needs big wars so that he can eventually "make" a peace...