@UpdatingOnRome If "Rome" means the capital of the (Western) Roman Empire, it "fell" in 286 AD when the administration / court moved to Mediolanum (present day Milan) and later on to Ravenna.
Trump and JD Vance's foreign policy: lose Italy and Israel, but keep Iran. Tough on allies, soft on the Islamic regime in Iran. They scold Israel, fight with NATO, mock Europe, and lecture Ukraine, then sit down with the mullahs and ask how many more billions of dollars from American taxpayers they would like. It's like getting robbed and then asking the thief whether he'd prefer cash or a wire transfer. At this point, either Tehran has performed magic on them, or they genuinely think the regime will change if they keep being nice to it—which is even worse than magic. For 47 years, the world and the Iranian people tried being nice to the regime and got Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and terrorism in the West.
@hothingsgirlsay This video made me think of Václav Havel's The Power of the Powerless, that talks about how under the apparently smooth ice sheet of social silence and conformity lies the turmoil of individual moral dilemas when people are coerced to participate in ritualistic lies.
@rona_wallace@MorEdge_Insight I agree, it takes infinite strength and courage to fight religious fanatics (or opportinists that use islam and their own people to fill their pockets) and there is only one country that understands that: Israel
@nicole_lazarou They cried wolf when their buddies said they were brutally tortured by Israel, so no one will believe these ones when they say Libyan authorities have tortured them, and knowing Lybia's current status as a failed state run by different factions, they are capable of real torture.
@GPrime85 The 1968 RAI L'Odissea feels like Homer translated into living flesh, on sun-scorched shores that
echo the ancient world, respecting the poem's pace and language, without injecting modern psychology and blockbuster DNA like the Hollywood productions do. https://t.co/vsAkdV6qmG
@liquidrichard73@GregPalmer1700@trishaposner 1.Genocide means the eradication of a whole ethnicity. 2.Hamas' whole strategy is to embed themselves in civilian areas. 3.Israel forces would always give the Gaza citizens the heads up before attacking (calls, leaflets). 4.War is dramatic, specially in highly populated areas.
@spencerpratt Pratt is outstanding. What he is advocating is the model Portugal introduced in the early 2000s, providing publicly-funded treatment facilities, which guarantees universal access, not only to those who can afford it. I bet that would cost a lot less than the current system.