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Unlikely. Netanyahu is increasingly seen a trouble maker even in the US. And these days middle east wars are not popular among Americans.
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Although Biden doesn't get along with Netanyahu, the Israeli lobby have a death grip on US politics. If Israel's victims take concrete actions, changing the status quo, the US will step in. Problems of American citizens have always been ignored so their opinion won't matter. I wonder if the Democratic Party predicts a big GOP win, would they start something up in the ME and force the GOP to inherit another ME war? It would appease the Evangelicals. And don't forget that Saudi Arabia have switched camp and the US needs to rope Saudia Arabia back into the US camp.
 
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German Foreign Minister Baerbock 360° leaves to China “to set the record straight.”

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Nils Schmid, the foreign policy spokesperson for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD), said he expects Baerbock to "set the record straight" during her trip to China, which will involve meetings with Beijing's Foreign Minister Qin Gang, Vice President Han Zheng and top diplomat Wang Yi.

"We clearly defined in the [government] coalition agreement that we need a changed China policy because China has changed. The chancellor made that clear during his visit. Above all, Scholz also issued clear warnings about Taiwan during his visit [last year]," Schmid wrote in a tweet. "I assume that Foreign Minister Baerbock will repeat exactly that and thus set the record straight and make a clarification after Macron's botched visit."

Berlin traditionally has been much more in sync with the U.S. on foreign and security policy than France has, which is why many politicians and officials in the German capital reacted with horror to Macron's comments.

Macron gave the impression to some in the U.S. that Europeans see Beijing and Washington as "equidistant" from Brussels in terms of values and as allies, said SPD foreign policy lawmaker Metin Hakverdi, who is currently on a parliamentary visit to the U.S.

“That was foolish,” Hakverdi told POLITICO, adding that "Macron potentially damaged the peaceful status quo around Taiwan" by giving "the public impression that Europe has no particular interest in the conflict over Taiwan.

"The issue of Taiwan is not an internal matter for the People's Republic of China. Anything else would virtually invite Beijing to attack Taiwan," Hakverdi added. "I am confident that our foreign minister will make that clear during her trip to Asia — both to Beijing and to our Asian partners."

Katja Leikert from the main German opposition party, the center-right CDU, criticized Macron's comments as "extremely short-sighted," and added: "Should China decide to strike Taiwan militarily, either by invading it or by starting a maritime blockade, this would have significant political and economic repercussions for us. We cannot just wish that away.

"What we actually need to do right now is strengthen our defense against aggressive measures from Beijing," Leikert said.

During her trip to China, Baerbock plans to raise the situation in the Taiwan Strait; Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine; the human rights situation in China; as well as the fight against climate crisis, the spokesperson said.
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The Taliban have cut off the world's source of heroin, but aT wHaT cOSt?
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Just another problem left by US occupation that had to be rectified by the local people.


Economic and societal modernization should go hand-in-hand:

Ghana's
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The struggle to explain rising Ghana's "Occult Economy"
Unlike antisuperstition campaigns launched elsewhere (e.g., in The People's Republic of China), the rhetoric of the Beninese campaigns never construed witch others as the delusions of ignorant peasants (cf. Feuchtwang and Wang 2001); the deadly practices of witch others were regarded as actual challenges to state sovereignty.
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From the years 2005 to 2011, over
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people were put to death in Tanzania for the crime of witchcraft. Before that, around
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more were killed between 1960 and 2000 for the same reasons. The majority of these victims were elderly women, who fit the Tanzanian witch stereotype
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Between the 60’s and the 90’s there was a feeling amongst scholars that African witchcraft would simply ‘go away’, under the combined pressures of modernisation and globalisation. But this didn’t happen. Researchers such as Jean and John Comaroff and Peter Geschiere began pointing out that witchcraft and the fears surrounding it intensified and morphed as different African nations began to develop, both politically and economically. Fears of zombies, evil factories, possessed politicians, ambulances roaming at night stealing blood, Satanic murders, ritualistic killings for company profit, the international trade in body parts, digital curses and hexes, penis-snatching, killer mobile phones and more proliferated under what scholars called ‘occult economies'.

Success and failure in this new world took on the extra dimension of witchcraft, and whoever might be jealous enough to hold you back could be using magical powers against you.
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Gun violence and shootings are so endemic and widespread in the US, I would diagnose it a national illness:

Gun violence affects half of all US families: Survey​

54% of adults say they or family member have experienced gun-related incident. 21% said they have personally been threatened with a gun. 19% said a family member was killed by a gun.
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The survey showed 21% were personally threatened with a gun while 19% said a family member was killed by a gun, which includes death by suicide.

Some 17% of respondents said they have personally witnessed someone being shot, 4% indicated they have used a gun in self-defense and 4% were injured in a shooting.

The survey showed that gun-related injuries and deaths "disproportionately" affect people of color in the US.

Thirty-one percent of Black adults have personally witnessed someone being shot while the figure for Hispanic adults was 22%.

About 84% of adults said they have taken at least one precaution against possible gun violence affecting their families.

According to the survey, four in 10 adults are living in a household with a gun.

The survey was conducted after the deadly school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, which killed three students and three adults.
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