It’s their national resource. If it can’t be grown anywhere else, then why should they not own it and profit from it? You are right, the answer to not having mfg capacity is education, but they have been exploited for so long by so many people for so much money, the only way to afford that education is by charging people for the natural resources.

But yeah, fuck these people for wanting to make money on something they have spent a thousand years developing and cultivating. You feel entitled to buying up cheap products from poor people so that white people can turn a hefty profit. How about those drug companies set up shop in Gabon and do the science in research there, where they can give education and good jobs and tax money to Gabon in exchange for that hefty profit, as opposed to just buying up cheap materials to take to the US where there is already a source of rich white people who are educated and have good jobs.

Except this isn’t about someone owning a species of plant. They aren’t saying people can’t grow the plant on their own. They aren’t saying drug companies can’t use the plant for their own purposes.

They are stopping US companies from raping their land and stealing their natural resources. They are trying to maintain control of something that the entire world wants, is very expensive in the rest of the world, but that is being bought for peanuts within their country. They have seen this same story play out time and time again in African countries, including their own, and taking steps to control the supply chain to benefit the farmers instead of only benefit the drug companies.

Yeah, looks like the shipping lanes are around 300ft deep and 2mi wide.

How deep is the Strait? If both Iran and US keep sinking ships, how long until it becomes in-navigeable?

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BBC would have an evil imperialist NATO incentive to say that the Russian bots DID slow down after the bombing. So them saying that it didn’t happen makes this more believable.

It’s almost like saying one thing is unbelievable just because of its source is just as bad as saying something is completely believable just because of its source.

Maybe, and I’m just spitballing here, but maybe that is because there is far far more suffering and atrocities being committed on Palestinians? No, that would just make too much sense.

Let’s just assume The Guardian wrote 10 times as many articles about the suffering of Palestinians than the suffering of the Israelis. That would only make sense if there happened to be 10 times as much suffering. Since 7 Oct, roughly 2050 Israelis have been killed and roughly 74,000 Palestinians have been killed. That is definitely not 10 times as much suffering. It is more like 36 times as much suffering. And that is only the deaths (most of whom were civilians who had nothing to do with the attacks). How many Israeli hospitals have been destroyed? How many Israeli homes have been destroyed? How many Israelis have been permanently displaced?

It’s almost like you believe that Palestinians have lower value than Israelis.

Yeah, this is just some red-teaming of possibilities.

And that all enriched him and his friends/family significantly. Israel, however, likely has real dirt on him and his family, so protecting them is in his best interest.

Agreed. But the Mossad, Israeli’s spy org, was heavily connected to Epstein. You might have heard of him and his connection to Trump. If Trump is at all worried about what info on him they have, he might be willing to protect them to protect himself.

Do you think the US military can’t come in and help stabilize a government that is experiencing internal fighting? Do you think financial aid to a sitting government doesn’t help it deal with civil infighting?

Do you think Trump has any qualms whatsoever giving away taxpayer money or sending in the US military if it helps him somehow, like maybe because Netanyahu has dirt on him?

He can send in the US military to protect Netanyahu and stabilize the established government. He can also send financial aid to help fund whatever infighting they have.

A) US Intelligence says a lot of things.

B) Do you think Trump would allow any kind of major unrest in Israel right now?

In Israel’s defense, it is harder to genocide people who have fresh water to drink.

I’m reading stuff about this being a major negotiation point at the highest level of government meetings between UK and UAE. I would not be surprised if the PL gets told by UK government folks to make this a purely financial penalty. It might be a ludicrously large penalty, but anything less than a few hundred billion pounds is just a drop in the bucket for UAE.

No, this is celebrity gossip. News is about something that happened, or about a person doing noteworthy things… not “here’s a person married to a person.” While I agree that not everything that happens in the US is World News, this is just describing a person who is related to a person who has done things that make the news.

I would say the same thing about “meet Greta Thornberg’s new boyfriend,” or “Elon Musk’s son no longer talks to him.” If you want to rage about too many US-centric news stories being posted in World News, that’s fine. But leave celebrity gossip out of here.

This is about the President of the US using journalists and staffers as bait for terrorists. That’s fucking news. He could have made the move to cancel his flight or fly an empty plane with military pilots as the only humans on board, but he chose to put normal people at serious risk of a terror attack while he chicken-shitted off on in a food truck.

It’s world news that the leader of a powerful country chose to put civilians at risk and encourage terrorism instead of trying to avoid a known risk.

How is this news?

That $1.2B could have been spent on any number of things that would have made normal people happier, healthier, smarter, etc. Instead, we are paying $1.2B to do literally nothing.

It’s telling that CONCACAF’s rationale for being against it was because they weren’t consulted first… not because they didn’t like the plan, just that they didn’t know about it ahead of time.