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https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141417

Assassination of generals happens in every war

But how this will anyway make things worse or increase hostilities? That weren't caused by killing 63 civilians fleeing war on railway station or killing over 20 people by blowing a shopping mall or blowing up a children hospital? Generals are legitimate targets in a war so they will be targets of strikes

You mean that raping and murdering civilians like happened in start of didn't make it already much worse?

This act of terror (I am not sure if it fits in definition, although it somewhat fits in FBI's state sponsored terrorism if we accept Russia saying that Ukraine is terrorist nation ) seem to be odd bit to get much of focus considering that countries involved are in all out war, where they shoot hundreds of cruise missiles to each other civilian and military infrastructure. And hundreds some times thousand people die on fighting somewhere where they probably don't want to be. But then people get their sock twisted when one general and his assistant commanding those troops and ordering those missile strikes get killed in strike that didn't even kill any civilians

There are different kinds of venture capitalist. In this case Softbank seem to seek quick profits by trying to get profits from Trumps protectionism that most likely will artificially increase US companies value. They will invest/buy US companies and hope that they can sell them with much higher price in couple years and they aren't interest if they actually create 100k new jobs, as their vision to use 250k dollar per year per job does not seem like long time investment. I am technically venture capital investor as I have invested in my current employer as part of venture capital investment where venture capital fund bought it, so I am familiar with idea to invest in company so that it multiply its value in next couple years and then sell it with profit to next investor.

They are doing venture capital investing, so they purpose is to leach money and assets, especially as their target is only to create 100 000 jobs with 100 billion dollars in four years

Question should probably be will Israel leave from their new "defense zone" then

Because they call themselves HTS now or at least lot of their members have been members of ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Now it seems that they want rule themselves now.

Assad's forces have been fighting now about 12 years, and they have not see anything getting better. Publicized intelligence reports even claim that Assad has failed multiple time to pay them, which has destroyed the moral of the troops and made corruption rampant. And now when Russia, Iran and Hizbollah have their own problems elsewhere Assad just does not have resources to get his troops to fight, so most likely Assad's reign will come to the end soon. But it may not mean much as it isn't like he has had control over Syria anyway.

If EU countries needs to increase their military spending with billions, they would like to cut cost elsewhere and Russian gas has been cheap, which is why many EU members states relied on it so heavily before 2022. Where UN budget comes? Especially if USA will cut its payments The approved budget for UN Peacekeeping operations for the fiscal year 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2022 is $6.38 billion. The top 10 providers of assessed contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations for 2020-2021 are: United States (27.89%) China (15.21%) Japan (8.56%) Germany (6.09%) United Kingdom (5.79%) France (5.61%) Italy (3.30%) Russian Federation (3.04%) Canada (2.73%) Republic of Korea (2.26%)

I am not sure of other EU countries but salaries for 1 million troops on foreign operation would cost in salaries for Finland over 10 billion euros in month. Total cost with all expenses would be over 50 billion euros per month, with assumption that there is no fighting Cost are based on how much our UN peace keeping operations cost in past. Although here is picture form highly secure border between Finland and Russia - blue white pole tells where Finland starts and red green tells where Russia starts.

Didn't Russia already escalate conflict by striking with over 100 missiles against Ukraine's powerplants yesterday? As it was one of the their largest strikes and its timing also isn't coincidental or promising de-escalation anytime soon.

Article 5, does not come with written obligations, but country that fails to help in defense of another member state can as well leave the alliance, because they will most likely never themself receive aid in case they are attacked.

Iranian hostility towards US can be traced here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état Of course during the road there has been quite lot of back and worth to build the hostility more. As side note not surprisingly reason behind the coup was that democratically elected Iranian government had decided to nationalize Anglo-Persian Oil Company which British saw as stealing from them so they first wanted to invade Iran, but ended to up to organize coup after USA refused to give military support.