15 countries produce 80% of global oil supply. A treaty of 15 or 20 is much easier to coordinate and enforce than a treaty of 200 countries using fossil fuels.
The major Western countries' order of preference for outcomes for Iran:
1. Libya model - Total state collapse
2. Syria model - Partial collapse, weak central government
3. Western pliant strongman
4. Current gov survives
5. Actual democracy
🚨 أصاب صاروخ باتريوت أمريكي مطار الكويت الدولي.
السؤال ليس هل كان ذلك خطأً؟، بل: لماذا لم تتقدم القوات الأمريكية لتحمل مسؤولية هذا الخطأ؟ لماذا التزمت الصمت؟
الجواب: لأنه لم يكن خطأً، بل كانت رسالة. إن لم تقصفكم إيران، فسنقصفكم عن طريق الخطأ ونُلقي باللوم على ايران
نعم، تأكد أن الصاروخ الذي أصاب المطار لم يُطلق من إيران، وتغريدات عبد الخالق عبد الله من أبو ظبي فور وقوع الهجوم الصاروخي، إلى جانب دعوة وزير الخارجية أنور قرقاش للدفاع المشترك، ما هي إلا استغلال لهذا الخطأ المُتعمد!
انتهى الأمر. ومن التزم الصمت حيال خطئه وأمر عبدالخالق ومن اليه باتهام إيران سريعًا هو من دبر كل هذا.
So just another stunt to give the West a talking point about how Hezbollah is "violating" the ceasefire by not unilaterally surrendering. Everything is so stupid. I hate it here.
The US announced that “Lebanon and Israel” have reached a ceasefire agreement.
The details?
Hezbollah should cease the fire first and withdraw from south of Litani for the agreement to go into effect.
Meanwhile, no commitment or obligations on Zionists. Zero.
Leb. President & Prime Minister are partners in the Zionist ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon.
I think just this week we saw a photo that might have been a mine, so maybe there's a few, but I doubt it is anywhere in the actual transit lanes, probably more likely some avenues of attack to Iranian shores or hard to defend blind spots behind Islands etc.
My motion calling on Canada to examine its risk of complicity in grave violations of international law in Gaza was defeated 40-12.
Here is the exchange that preceded the vote:
@LanniKJ@imetatronink It's telling that this kind of thing is laundered through a pseudonymous generic department account, I bet you won't get Admiral Cooper saying this kind of thing directly if he can avoid it.
For anyone who likes this definition, what does it mean to you for the millions of non-Jews born in that land, who have been living there for countless generations? In what possible sense are they not indigenous to that land and have every right to live there as equals?
@Israel Zionism is as Zionism, practiced by the majority of its adherents, do. What they do is genocide, apartheid & ethnic cleansing. So that's what Zionism is.
Judge the tree by its fruits.
@veilofignoranc@globeandmail The US is run by a ranting toddler with a runaway lying problem, pretending anything they might do means anything about Canada's actual situation is utterly disingenuous.
the amount of visceral bigotry and hate against Muslims being spewed in the media by Zionist Jews in Canada the past few days is an alarming escalation that needs to be called out and forcefully rebuked. #cdnpoli#nlpoli
🚫 CLAIM: Iran is now claiming it has targeted a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Gulf of Oman.
✅ TRUTH: Iran is lying. U.S. military assets at sea continue to fly, sail, and operate safely and unimpeded.
Germany's bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council ends in crushing failure
After Germany's reactions to events in Gaza, Venezuela, Lebanon and Iran, no one could believe that "its utmost priority will be respect for the rules of international law", if elected
Iranian Navy: A few hours ago, following aggressive actions, violations of the Strait of Hormuz regulations, and hostile acts against Iranian commercial vessels in the Sea of Oman by the terrorist and aggressive US Army, the Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, upon detection and identification, targeted the "command and control center" of an American destroyer that intended to approach the waters of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Sea of Oman.
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this. California will hit tank bottoms for jet and diesel by July 4th.
The Asian import arbitrage is dead, local refining is tapped, and none of this is reversible for 12-18 months.
Could this be the Energy Crisis' Lehman moment?
An Israeli military reservist blows the whistle on Sde Teiman, saying an investigative Israeli tv news program failed to cover the systematic torture there. Captives from Gaza were starved, operated on without anesthesia, many left in body bags.
https://t.co/NiKJmVLZe0
There’s nothing more shameless than people erasing actual genocide by comparing it to “what China is doing to the Uyghurs.”
In some regions, up to 90% of Indigenous populations were wiped out through the violence of the Canadian state and its colonial project.