Ph.D. Candidate @SHU. Research interest: Institutions and organisation sustainability transition; Just Transition; CSR; ESG; Natural and Built Environment
The fact is that without access to bases and airspace in different parts of Europe the 🇺🇸 could hardly have undertaken their operations. Bombers fly constantly from 🇬🇧 through 🇫🇷 airspace, transports use 🇩🇪 all the time, ports in 🇬🇷 and 🇭🇷 have helped aircraft carrier and airfields in 🇷🇴 and 🇧🇬 are filled with tanker aircraft.
Dear UAE nationalists and infuencers,
I get why you are standing by your leadership, I really do.
Your leadership ensures that you are kings and queens in your own country, with no one daring to question your actions.
Your leadership ensures that you get to live a great life without financial worry.
Your leadership ensures that you have a foreign slave labour force to do your bidding.
Your leadership ensures you can hire foreign maids who you can slap around (or worse) without consequences.
Your leadership ensures that you will always have money and work without having to actually earn it.
And all you have to do is forgo any political rights and freedom of speech and kiss their ass on a regular basis.
Pretty good deal isn't it?
And I'm sure it works well for you given that you lost your dignity and honour a long time ago.
But could I ask one little favour please? Stop trying to persuade the rest of us that your rhetoric has anything to do with truth, justice or Islam.
Just be honest and we will respect you more - you love your privileges, you love the trappings of dunya, and you will say any old sh#t to make sure you preserve it.
Give me Burkina Faso and Traore anytime than this sham we call democracy. As Africans, we should start challenging this narrative that elections = democracy. The political class will kill and maim, steal votes and then expect us to believe we are better off than Burkina. Nah!!
The horrors happening in Iran and Lebanon are happening because of what the world is allowing to happen in Gaza and the West Bank. The Zionists are emboldened by silence. Silence is tacit approval.
SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.
The gap between Europe and the United States at this time is not strategic but tactical. Do not misunderstand Macron's disagreements with Trump: they are disagreeing about how to subordinate Iran not whether it is appropriate to subordinate Iran to the West.
Let's not beat about the bush here: a madman is threatening to escalate the biggest geopolitical crisis in my lifetime, and where is the UK government? On holiday, conveniently pretending to ignore the "it's not our war" issue.
I hope very much that Donald Trump does not decide to destroy the infrastructure of Iranian utilities. I cannot envisage it helping in any way.
Firstly, if he thinks it will cow the regime into submission he’s almost certainly wrong. You have to understand your enemy and he doesn’t seem to at all.
Second, wrecked infrastructure will only cause suffering for the civilian population, entrench long-term anti-US sentiment, and cost a fortune to rebuild.
I see little to no benefit but a mass of negative consequences.
My father is hungry… he eats tree leaves to survive
Bone disease has taken his leg, and hunger is taking his life
Every bite you give could bring him back to life
Don’t leave him alone in his fight against hunger and illness
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