Many European mainstream parties are somewhat against the genocide. Spain and France are probably the most important ones of the lot. Not anti Israel as such, but willing to sanction them. The biggest reason not more is being done is Germany, which is in the weird position of paying reparations for a genocide, which is then used to commit a genocide.
It points to assets being inflated, due to the rich not being taxed properly any longer.
Every investment has grown incredibly in price. Stocks, gold and also housing. That is honestly the biggest reason a blue collar workers pay can no longer feed a family of five easily. In the 60s food was actually pretty expensive back then for example. In the US of 1960 a stick of butter would be the equivalent of $27.74 today. However housing was not and that makes up a huge part of current spending, if you do not own a property already.
Israel has created alliances with European far right parties. That does not mean Israel created those parties. It just means both hate Muslims and hence work together.
Russia and Israel also have a weird relationship. They sometimes work very closely together. Like Russia is Israels biggest fuel supplier. Israel also has no problem with buying grain Russia stole from Ukraine. Also many Russian oligarchs have Israeli passports. Those contacts have grown stronger since Trump became president.
Before somebody cries about Iran. For Russia the war is absolutely perfect. It means less US aid to Ukraine and higher oil prices. Obviously Israel loves the war as well.
Two decades ago the US waged war to get oil from the Middle East. Today it wages war to stop oil from the Middle East.
That was the time after WW2. Of cause the economy does a lot better, when you do not bomb out cities and kill millions. That could have happened earlier, without the war and everybody would have been better of.
The US is at war and China is not. The third most powerful country would be India and afaik they are not at war right now.
WW2 was not a boon to production. Well it was for weapons, but most of Europe and good parts of Asia were destroyed with millions dead. The only country coming out of it in better shape was the US, which did not see bombing and had relatively low human losses(still horrible to be clear, but not even close to what others had).
Modern wars suck and any smart country will try to avoid them. Hence you see Russia being fucked over by the EU via Ukraine and China fucking the US via Iran. Obviously you need dumb leaders to walk into those traps into the first place.
Only 31 members of US Congress dared to not use funding from the Israel lobby. 3 Republicans, Bernie and 27 Democrats. Also Vermont is awesome with all of them not taking Israeli blood money.
Running against AIPAC grantees your opponent gets extra funding and most of the US media is against you. It really is not easy to win that. It becomes easier the more refuse though, as that forces AIPAC to fund the Republicans
The hard truth is that winning without support of AIPAC has been really hard in the past. Certainly a part of the reason Bernie never became president for example. This only started to turn with Gaza.
It also shows that not taking AIPAC money, has to be rewarded by voters.
The Chinese Super League had 6.1million tickets sold last season. It is a pretty decent size league.
Body bags?
Coal is mostly used to produce electricity and steel. So more electricity from solar then coal is actually good news.
However oil and gas are much harder to replace, but again we actually have a lot of the technology, it is “just” about rolling it out on scale, which is hard.
The period after WW2 was one of two periods in Western Europe, were wealth inequality went down in the last thousand years or so. The other one was the Black Death, when a lot of people died and that lead to worker shortages. Honestly a lot of deaths in WW2 might have also been a big part of why the post war period was so pleasant.
Makes you think about the low fertility rate in a different way.
So US minimum wage for Venezuela?
The Disney Magic is Bahama flagged. This is not US territory and ICE has no right to be on it what sort ever.
and I thought Guy Fawkes was born in England…
Winning elections in the US is about mobilizing your base. Very few people actively make a choice to vote Republican or Democrat. Most do between voting or not voting.
No worries the FF(X) cutters will come soon to relieve the destroyers.