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.

Europe did not love the latest World Cup. They complained heavily about all of it, from the commercial breaks to the bad officiating to the ticket prices to the handling of visas to the transportation to the stadiums. The Trump cheating thing was just the cherry on top of a banana split made from turds.

Of course the Moroccan police are standing idly by. The people are leaving not arriving. What are they supposed to do? Arrest people for leaving the country? They can block the border crossing facilities, but what Moroccan law are the people breaking?

Awesome, Trump brought us back into Iraq. It was so great the first two times.

This is probably how this has to work. If the flights were military or government-owned/operated planes, that is much harder to sue for, since it is the government following government policies (even if the policies aren’t legal, it’s hard to sue the government). But a private company doing something wildly illegal SHOULD be sued for taking on a contract to be paid to do something illegal.

Well, that wasn’t a rabbit-hole I was expecting to go down today. Yet here I am, deep in a hole.

Trump planned in 2018 to lose the 2020 election specifically so he could be president again when this World Cup happened to allow it to be a distraction from the Epstein files.

Are you seriously comparing the minor, temporary inconvenience of some people to make a point about the destruction of the planet to murdering people because they have a different skin color?