RichardPearce comments

Ah, but like the White State in South Africa, the Israeli regime's definition of 'citizens' excludes most of the legal population of the Israeli territory of the 'wrong' ethnicity.

That's why the term democracy is wrong, because there is a word everyone knows describes EXACTLY that antidemocratic situation.

How many of these 'senior European officials' were screaming about Trump cutting out the Azovians from the peace talks with Russia.

You'd think that they would be talking with Palestinians about how to get them back home to Israel, how to prosecute Netanyahu for genocide and others for ICSPCA violations, and how to build a democratic Palestine.

But, nope, they're talking to the criminals about what to do with their victims.

Denying the truth about the Crimes Against Humanity of the Israeli regime may be a habit for some, but like all bad habits, the consequences are likely to be long term and way worse than the people with them think they could be.

The irony is that there WAS a rescue plan that could have been implemented earlier.

It was to have one of the Russian resupply ships repurposed to a supply AND return mission. That was discarded due to the unreasonable hatred of Russia and the promises that a SpaceX mission would be able to return them in a slightly longer time frame than the Russian option.

No SpaceX mission has happened.

Zelensky didn't start the war.

Ukrainians as a collective didn't start the war.

But those Ukrainians with an unreasoning hatred of Russia did, with American sponsorship, and the guy who knowingly cheered and gestured upwards towards a willing participant in the Holocaust has obviously made peace with the notion of embracing those Ukrainians with an unreasoning hatred of Russia, as well as not even pretending to respect the basic tennets of democracy.

Funny how the people screaming their heads off about the Azovians not being invited to the talks about ending the war in Ukraine aren't screaming about the legitimate Palestinian government being excluded from talks about ending the genocide in Palestine.

Did any of the efforts to bring an end to the conflict in South Africa that didn't include the 'Russian backed antidemocratic White hating terrorists of the ANC' bring peace and justice there?

It is ironic how much screaming there is when Trump does the right thing fir the wrong reasons compared to when Obama and Biden do the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.

Overthrowing the last democratically elected government a united peaceful Ukraine had to bleed even more 'profits' from Ukrainians for America's oligarchs was definitely the wrong thing and the wrong reason.

Cozying up to the losing side of WW2 in an effort to make America look stronger was also the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.

Accepting that the Ukrainians of the industrial and agricultural heartland of Ukraine will never accept the loss of sovereignty and democracy that the coup installed regime is demanding they accept is the right thing even if doing it because you're a vindictive selfish failure with delusions is the wrong reason to do it

The only way to possibly see the JCPOA as a 'bad deal' or 'not working' is to see the definitive debunking of the claims Iran has a nuclear weapons program, or the prevention of 'sanctions' based on conspiracy theories as problems.

Of course, to supporters of the genocidal scofflaw regime, those are indeed problems.

The problems with the plan to destabilize Iran by killing its economy and encouraging it's population to overthrow it is that it are many fold.

1) Iran is a full member of the world's largest trading organization BRICS, which will not allow it to be cut off.

2) Trump's currently destabilizing the second largest trading organization, the G7/20

3) Trump's administration is doing more to encourage the population of the US to overthrow him than he can to encourage the population of Iran to overthrow their own government

4) Trump's partner in this is actually less popular with the world at large than Trump's government

5) Both the US and Israel are going to be too busy dealing with the blowback of overthrowing Syria's government, the genocide against Palestinians, their war on Lebanon, and the effects of losing their mythological 'military supremacy' by depleting their non nuclear weapons stockpiles, while the country that is the present dominant force in the 'strategic sciences' will see helping Iran gain military parity (at least) in the region as useful both strategically and tactically domestically and internationally.

There's been more Crimes Against Humanity perpetrated by Israelis on Palestinians than crimes perpetrated by Palestinians against Israelis, but there are people who try and make it seem to be the opposite way around. It is only by being very selective (like ONLY focusing on October 7th and ignoring the years before then, and EVERY day afterwards) that one can create that impression. And, even then, one has to add 'blood libels' and omit the actions of Israeli regime militants on that day to create it.

So, maybe 5% less aid workers, and 50% media handlers, media coordinators, spokespeople, and media liasons at the next major disasters. Of course less people looking for things to do that will appear look useful, and more people looking for what needs to be done might offset that shrinkage in aid workers.

Why would Russia rejoin?

BRICS presently represents a bigger percentage of the global economy than the G7, unlike the G7 is extremely diverse, and unlike the G7 countries, it'll be decades before most countries of BRICS have the 'upside down' demographics where the percentage of people in their last 3 decades of life is greater than the percentage of people in their first 3 decades of life.

And what guarantee is there that the self righteous sanctimonious White Bloc won't simply kick their DEI member out again?

Trump's actions so far will have doubled the number of countries preparing applications to become at least 'associate' BRICS members in the past 50 days, Who knows, by the time Trump reaches 500 days, there might be G7 and EU states begging to join BRICS too.

Interesting how, on the other side, Russia traded a 'drug smuggler' for a 'computer programmer'.

Note that BOTH versions are roughly equivalent

Someone doesn't know that the Israeli regime's denial of medical care to its prisoners (the few who have been tried in a legal manner) and hostages (the hundreds of thousands who have NOT been tried in a legal manner despite 'our' willingness to act as if they were) and political prisoners (note, the White State in South Africa tried to 'administratively detain' Sobukwe, but the same media that refused to accept anything but an admission by that regime that he was a political prisoner, not 'guest of the state' or other euphemisms don't have the same standards of integrity when it comes to the Jewish State In Palestine) are a different order of 'denial' than the restricted access in American prisons.

Funny how people saying that murdering tens of thousands of Palestinians aren't deemed to be Islamophobes who have to be prosecuted, fired, expelled, but saying that the people doing that murdering or cheering them on should be prosecuted, fired, expelled is deemed to be antisemitism.

Yes there were atrocities committed on BOTH sides on October 7th, but there were atrocities committed by the Israeli regime for decades before that, and almost every day since, by the Israeli regime. And every single Palestinian in Gaza had been victims of at least one Crime Against Humanity perpetrated by the Israeli regime before October 7th.

America's 'soft power' always was more convincing itself that wasn't a brutal mafia boss than actual aid.

China's 'soft power' is treating other governments as equal.

Were they 'spooked' by 'Russia' or by America?

Because it is America that has forced state after state to cut themselves off from Russia's abundant energy and deal with shortages and higher prices and end up extremely vulnerable to people like Trump and Biden's support for genocide and the attempts to make Ukraine another Apartheid regime to keep the Scofflaw one company

There was a Crime Against Humanity committed on October 7th (and 6th, 5th, 4th, well, for the decades leading up to that day, and the year plus since)

The use of deadly force by JSIP terrorists against people who have EVERY RIGHT to enter 'Israel' as citizens, the Refugees.

You'll note that those Refugees, by law, have the right to use violence in SELF DEFENSE against the Israeli regime and its forces, supporters, and enablers. The violence used by the Israeli regime etc is, by law NOT self defense, it is an ATTACK

Funny how much better fed than the other victims of the Israeli regime's engineered famine these 3 look, but we (well, most of the world) gets it.

No horrors (kidnapping, torture, rape, mass murder, starvation to the point where immediate extreme medical intervention is required, except all medical personnel are being targeted for death or disappearance by JSIP terrorists, and the Israeli regime is blocking the medicines needed) visited on the MAJORITY ETHNIC POPULATION OF ISRAEL by the Israeli regime matters, but the smallest inconvenience to the oppressors of Palestinians are unacceptable (well in the eyes of an ever shrinking minority of the world)

So, if Trump's 'maximum pressure' didn't work when Iran wasn't a member of the world's largest trading organization, what makes the supporters of the genocidal scofflaw regime think it's going to work now that it is a member?

Oh, right, arrogant ignoramnce.

As predicted, lots of effort to return the truth Trump accidentally made visible, that the only place the population of Gaza can legally (and morally, and ethically) can be moved is back home to what some mistakenly insist is Israel.

It's also the only place using force to prevent that population from going is a Crime Against Humanity.

The one good quality that Trump consistently exhibits is saying the quiet part so loudly that it is impossible to pretend he didn't day it.

And he openly admitted that the US and Scofflaw regime are trying to remove the population of Palestine from the remaining fragments of Palestine where they are the acknowledged majority.

That it also exposes a truth that so many have been trying to bury for a long time, that the only legal place to move the Refugees from Gaza is right back into what for lifetimes was ubiquitously called Palestine but is now, in many parts of the world, mistakenly called Israel, and, indeed, it is the one place where preventing them from going and being citizens is a Crime Against Humanity, and them going there forcibly is not even a crime, let alone terrorism or racism or a crime against humanity, is being steadfastly ignored and reburied by those who buried it in the first place.

Trump can't stand that Israel is a bigger violator of international laws than the US, and is going to try to change that the easiest way possible, violating as many of tholaws as possible

If you live in Japan (and, really, anywhere else that exports to the United Hates of America) as the failure of these tariffs to do what Trump promised becomes apparent, don't assume that Trump will take the loss. Unless someone is literally looming over him telling him that his idea not only has turned into a disaster, that him doubling down will have CALAMITOUS effects, and that if Trump orders a doubling down, he would make it his mission to make EVERYONE know that it was all Trump's fault, Trump will double down, and Japan will face tariffs, too.

Bass, yes, there are Canadians who move to the hot parts of the US, but most of them also make sure to be back in Canada often enough not to get stuck with no alternative to the poor American health care system.

Meanwhile, in multiple places, American health care providers depend on people who live in Canada to cross the border to keep their operations going.

So, did you hear the one about the loudmouth who walked into a quiet bar, saw a dei guy and a girly man sitting at a table for 3, and shoved the table at them...and the dei guy sitting at the next table.

Turned out the 'girly man' had actual experience in the boxing ring, and the dei guy helped by hitting the loudmouth from the other side. Oh, and the other DEI guy is taking the loudmouth to court for assault.

As for the loudmouth, well, he's warning his family their going to be facing financial difficulties.

It won't matter if the actual, qualified, fact first investigators find that the helicopter was at 200 ft, and the plane descending faster than it was supposed to crossed the altitude line into the helicopter, or that both were off their altitudes, and their altimeters slightly off, Trump has declared and that's all that matters to some people.

They know that participation in that would be a Crime Against Humanity, and because part of the crime would take place in ICC jurisdiction, they would be the first targets while the US and EU countries would be too busy protecting their 'leaders' from arrest to lend them any cover.

When civilians illegally snatched from their homes are 'prisoners' and members of the squad that does such snatches and worse are 'hostages', the calendar might say its 2025, but really its 1984

When denouncing the perpetrators and enablers of race based violent oppression and mass slaughter is deemed to be a racist act, you know that Orwell and Kafka wasted their time trying to warn us about the dangers of allowing reality denialism take root in the media, government, and courts of the society we live in.

That history shows that such societies either implode because of a generation that refuses to believe the lies kicks down the scaffolding holding it up, explode as the drive to impose the lies on others pulls apart the scaffolding holding it up, or rots away as the efforts to maintain the scaffolding consumes every more resources until it doesn't have the ability to adapt to the changes time brings.