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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.

In Wisconsin Tammy Baldwin got 1,672,394 votes - Harris got 1,667,852 , so at least 4,542 people that voted Baldwin did not vote Harris In Michigan Harris got 2,720,831 votes - Elisa Slotkin got 2,705,115 votes, so at least 15,716 Harris voters didn't vote Slotkin In Pennsylvania Harris got 3,352,343 votes - Bob Casey got 3,314,888 vote, at least 37,455 Harris voters didn't vote Casey, if all Harris voters would have voted Casey, Casey would have won. Some reason quite lot Trump voters didn't vote any senate candidate, which is clear indication of voter fraud

Peace plan sound like no plan at all. I am sure that Russia approves idea that Nato will have heavy fortification and large amount troops in their border, when idea of Ukraine possibly joining Nato lead them to attack Ukraine in first place https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/7/7483362/

EU already has well resourced and funded military. EU's defense expenditure is over 200 billion euros per year (so only USA and China use more money to their military), but EU's military is controlled by member nations and their military alliances, not the union itself.

Don't worry this election result will mean that European countries will build their military up in fast pace which is not anything to worry over considering that nationalist have won last elections almost every country in Europe in countries past elections. And as history teach us Europe never goes war when it has nationalist governments that put trillions in new armaments.

One thing that people don't talk yet is that Harris can still declare herself as president in January 6

That in many states they removed people from voter registry just before election. In case where couple swing states decide president, the system isn't that democratic, it is more stateratic. But as system was created to give states power so it is what it is. Trump won Pennsylvania so it seem that he will be the president. And it looks that Trump will win all swing state, but it also looks that after California's vote is counted Kamala will have popular vote

I that really true though? Considering how elected officials selected who can vote.

I am not absolute sure of that it was zealotry that sold Lutheranism considering for example that in Sweden (and Finland, as it was then part of Sweden) converted to Lutheranism because Sweden had acquired heavy debt during Swedish War of Liberation that it had hard time to pay back to Lübeck, so when Luther started to preach that church should not have worldly possession, then king of Sweden Gustav Vasa saw opportunity get rid of political influence of Rome (as then Pope Clement VII insisted that Gustav should reinstate Gustav Trolle ally of king Christian II of Denmark and Kalmar Union) and pay Sweden's debts same time and ordered The Reformation. Same time in England Henry VIII also reformed English church and founded Anglicanism, because he also wanted get rid of political influence of Rome and take Church's money and lands to the Crown. In 16th Protestantism was able to success because Pope Clement VII wasn't that good in diplomacy even though he was elected because of his high reputation as a stateman. Although Pope Clement VII didn't have easiest time as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and king Francis I of France were in cold war, both demanding that Pope would take their side, Ottoman Empire was invading Eastern Europe. But one would have probably should considered that such time is not the best time to make enemies among European royalty, especially among those who control border lands and therefore are farthest from Roma's influence. But at end Pope Clement VI succeeded to lose Sweden, England, big sunk of current Germany, get Rome sacked by Charles V and get himself imprisoned, I don't think any other Pope has been such big influence in European religion and politics.

Emil would like to see western countries to give Ukraine permission to use long ranged weaponry against targets in Russia, so his reporting may have bit more pessimistic view in order to influence western politician that listen his analyzes

When there isn't any living soul in Gaza then war ends naturally, if Trump wins this outcome becomes more easily reachable when US don't anymore try to blackmail Israel to offer humanitarian aid to Gaze by withholding weapon deliveries and US will also "Blow Iran to Smithereens" and give Israel green light to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities So I can see why Trump is gaining support among Muslims and especially Arabs that are concerned about Israel's actions in Middle East and how people's lives there are destroyed, as he promises to rebuild Gaza best place in Israel .

Results are quite bad for Moldova's hopes to join EU. Big sunk of 'Yes'-side's votes come from moldovians that don't live in Moldova Majority of moldovians that live in Moldova voted 'No'. President does not currently have people's favor. There is high change the politician that favor Russia will win parliament election next spring. And it will anyway be uphill fight to make changes that EU requires. So Moldova will most likely fail to make them in soon enough to get their application to EU processed now when EU countries see that it could be good move against Russia. So if politicians that favor Russia win then Moldova probably will not join to EU in next 20 years. Especially when Georgia sided with Russia and will to support Ukraina is vanishing. So at end it looks that moldovians voted against EU membership