I don't think this particular scenario would have unfolded under a Harris presidency, but for a bit of a contradictory reason: Israel began striking Iran to throw a wrench into the renegotiation of the nuclear deal with the US (and the US government let it happen, these fucking rubes). Kamala, however, was far more hawkish on Iran and would never in her life entered these negotiations in the first place, thus not prompting this particular escalation to occur to begin with. Would Kamala have willingly and happily supported any strikes on Iran by Israel under any pretext, however flimsy? Absolutely. Whould this particular scenario have arisen? I don't think so.
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They expected a rapid increase in short term profits. And to their credit, they were correct to expect them. They just didn't think that China would actually do what it stated it would do in no uncertain terms.
Germany has neither the demgraphic structure nor the necassary training infrastructure or personnel to actually realise any such endeavour. This is wishful thinking coupled with delusions of grandeur. On the positive side, the fact that Germany's most populous age groups are going to retire in the coming 5-7 years coupled with the fact that the age groups which enter the work force to replace them are the least populous age groups below the ages of 80 and above woulod render the economic impact of the implementation of such measures absolutely catastrophic.
I mean, they are, but scalpers literally just perform a correction of prices of scarce goods to market value. This is literally just markets working as intended and not even remotely unique to, say, concert tickets. Scalpers, as is expected with the high degree of proliferation and Landnahme after multiple centuries of capitalism, are simply a symptom of capitalism, just a particularly noticeable one. A much bigger example of this type of rent seeking is… rent. Yet, landlords do not receive even a fracture of the ire directed at scalpers (I know, on Hexbear they do).
Tl;dr: I don’t know what the fuss is about, this is literally how all markets work and we are completely immersed in this shit.
That should go without saying.
For Germany: Israel is an indulgence for the Holocaust.
For the USA: Israel is an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a largely hostile region that is protected by international law.
For the rest of Western Europe: They are vassals of the US, so naturally they don’t want to piss of their daddy.
For everyone else: they don’t want to provoke the US either.
Wait, what? I thought they’d at least take a few weeks before publicly rehabilitating him.
Oh, in my case it would’ve the Dari/Tajik speaking part. It’s the same in Urdu and Hindi, so I just surmised that it’s really common.
There’s bound to be a bunch of variations of panir, paneer, peynir etc. around. All of us central Asians call it something like that.
Neither is Azerbaijan.
They are former friends, so there’s probably a personal dimension to it.
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To clarify, this is about Lebanon, but the UNSC resolution that the US blocked yesterday isn’t even mentioned. 
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The biggest indictment against us communists is that we have not yet established communism as the predominant/only system of social organisation with enemies this stupid. If we can't win against idiots like this, what does that say about us?