Israel are going to start WWIII

Putin is supping at the last chance saloon. He will not be in power a year from now because he is very bad for business. He has managed to maintain the imagine of a hard man to the Russian population, but the ukrainian invasion shattered that and the tame media cannot ignore it and is telling the public that they are on the losing side. Drone strikes on Moscow rams the message home. Without the venear of success Putin is a dead man walking and it will be one of his own that does it.

Or the next guy is the same, or even worse the country collapses and all their weapons land on the black market. Not great options.

Russia collapsed before 30 years ago, the world is a better place since, just ask half of Europe east of the old west Germany border

Meanwhile instead of worrying about theoretical hypothetical worry about currently Russia teaching the fecks in Iran how to build nuclear weapons and rockets and arming and sending mercenaries to grab resources in Middle East and Africa, because spending a decade dropping barrel bombs and chemical weapons in Syria next door wasn’t good enough for them

To funny. Ukraine is getting battered but that doesnt means Putin can win. The momentum has shifted.

Russian trolls are double jobbing these days.

There is a huge amount of millennial thinking on both sides, egged on by the influential evangelical lobby in the USA. Far to many people on all side want to see the end times.

Palestinians definitely see their salvation as that final battle on that armegedion hill. I heard it directly from a Palestinian refugee educated to PHd level. Don't underestimate the power of religious fanatism to kill us all.

Why does a neo fascist regime (that can’t spend a day without threatening everyone in Europe with WW3 and nukes) bombing the **** out of another country make you happy?

Trump really crossed the Rubicon in supporting the Zionists with moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.

If you were Palestinian it was confirmation that the US was greenlighting your destruction. So who's the fanatic?

The IDF looking for a buffer zone for their buffer zone?

My point stands:

Your point is mental.

The majority of the worlds population is not risking their lives trying to get into the West.

Own the stupidity of it and move on.

Thanks for confirming my point

Your point was a figment of your imagination as is the idea that I have confirmed it.

Zero point engaging with that level of Mitty, have a good one.

Considering most of the settlers in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine are of Russian origin

Them f**king off back to Russia sounds like a win win win for everyone

Makes sense …Russia is in dire need for more cannon fodder

one analysis I saw but it seems reasonable Iran essentially showed their teeth but was contained and not designed to cause max/indiscriminate damage, Israel probably understated the damage to show strength and motivate their people.

The US wont want 200$ oil before an election so will be sending a calming message, so its kind of up to Israel but it seems they wouldnt have a good enough excuse to go all out

Far better relationship then, very different dynamic today. It’s also a major concern that Pakistan is on the brink of financial default, while dealing with insurgents. Collapsing nuclear armed nations are extremely dangerous for everyone.

I would hope so. If the UN failed to enforce the resolution and Hezbollah were using the zone to launch attacks on Israel, it's very hard to blame Israel wanted to clear it out.

It’s not the threat, it’s the vacuum of a government collapse and subsequent disappearance of military assets.

None of that is really new. Aid workers, Paramedics, Doctors, Nurses and journalists are fair targets for the Israeli regime.

So the next time the likes of US or anyone else supporting the regime try and pontificate to other dictatorships targeting the same they haven't a leg to stand on.

The problem in Lebanon is the worlds media has descended on Beirut, it's only a matter of time before the IDF kill a well known western journalist and only then will the mood music change en masse.

The collapse wasn’t the net positive it should have been, the Russian oligarchs come from the collapse and subsequent asset grab. Many military and police officers went into organised crime. The whole situation could have been handled far better with better outcomes.

Any military and geopolitical planner will be looking at what happens after the potential collapse and trying to figure out if it’s actually worth it.

This really is turning into a groupfuck situation. Is Netanyahu trying to pull the US into this? If the US backed off and refused to back Israel if there were any further escalations would it calm things down? Would Iran consider the matter closed at that stage? Would Hezbollah go straight back to lobbing rockets randomly into Israel? (I suspect they would)

It was a net positive for most of countries that were part of USSR or colonised and vassalised by USSR

We have a war going on for three years precisely because 40 million people don’t want to be dragged back to that bullshit

Maybe not a positive for Russians themselves but they decided they wanted to remain as serfs to criminals and got their wishes now, despite that millions others voted with their feet and left

biden casually lets slip he was discussing hitting iranian oil facilities - worth thinking about it anyway ....

some sort of empire strikes back in the pipe line

"Oil markets are being too complacent given the risk of major supply disruptions in the Middle East, analysts told CNBC on Thursday, with one warning that crude futures could rally to more than $200 a barrel."

looks like we all suffer if that happens

And now here we are today. They aren’t alone either, other eastern block countries have the same issues just not at the same level.

8 million former Soviet bloc migrants wanted to enter Russia in the two years leading up to the publication of this 2020 study.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7552588/

By September 2018, the number of labour migrants who indicated the purpose of their entry as “work for hire” reached 3.87 million people and of whom 83% were citizens of the former Soviet Union countries (in August 2017, 4.22 million people indicated their purpose of entry as “work for hire” and 96% of them were citizens of the former Soviet Union countries)