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Phead128 said:
Yes, US with it's $16 billion dollars of oil imports from Saudi, vs. China with it's $65 billion dollar oil imports from Saudi. The Math checks out....and who is the one incessantly demanding OPEC oil price cuts? Talk about bad negotiation and zero leverage or incentives.
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I mean statehood for Palestine means Saudi is just bad faith trolling with impossible demands. There's no way US would give up their grip on the "holy land" to "infidels" like the Palestinians.

Plus Israel is one of the very few US colonies that pays for itself and serves as "model" colony in many ways, much like how the GDR was for the USSR. That makes them more or less US' most prized possession.

It would be like asking China to give up Taiwan or Xinjiang.
 
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Biscuits said:
I mean statehood for Palestine means Saudi is just bad faith trolling with impossible demands. There's no way US would give up their grip on the "holy land" to "infidels" like the Palestinians.

Plus Israel is one of the very few US colonies that pays for itself and serves as "model" colony in many ways, much like how the GDR was for the USSR. That makes them more or less US' most prized possession.

It would be like asking China to give up Taiwan or Xinjiang.
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The model socialist state of the GDR didn’t stop the Soviet leadership from betraying their people and handing over Eastern Europe to the Anglo west just for a few scraps from the tables of atlanticists for Them to become Russian oligarchs.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1689611135387869184

but what was most deafening to me was the silence from free trade and fair play advocates from the west when the US conducted trade and tech wars against China. The EU deserves to whither and die, as the soviets deserved to die for betraying their own people and principle.
 
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Chevalier said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1689619050538913792

The rest of the BRICS, especially Russia, better pull their heads in and recognise India for the enemy that it is, and as the perennial slave to the anglos that they are.
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If India is really invested in supporting the illegal separatism of Taiwan from China, then China should repay the favor by making sure India is broken up into several pieces.

The secession of South India and Northeast India from the union are great candidates.
 
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If true, this is a big deal. Psychiatric patient with a top secret clearance... "When the patients run the hospital" proverb became a reality, but they are running the country, not a hospital.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1689438737829142529
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That article reads like a hatchet job. It's a lot easier to retain a security clearance than to apply for one when you have. You can argue that's unfair but a lot of intelligence roles are understaffed as is. It's also a very high stress job and a lot of employees turn to alcohol drugs as a coping mechanism.

Also, being sectioned isn't the same as a mental illness. Even PTSD is largely a made up concept.

American soldiers commit war crimes (or witness them happening by fellow soldiers), then years later feel guilty about it. Oh, so you can't stop thinking about that Iraqi family your colleagues massacred you were forced to keep quiet about? That's not guilt you're feeling, you have a mental illness!

Do you know the difference between a soldier feeling guilty and having PTSD? 6 months. The difference between an emotional response and a pathology is completely arbitrary and has no basis in science.

Historically it didn't exist because either soldiers knew what they were getting into, or were fighting a "good" moral war. American soldiers are in a unique position because they actually believe they are signing up for a good and moral cause, yet their actual deployments are like Nazi occupations.

I'd say it's pathological not to have some form of PTSD after a deployment somewhere like Afghanistan and Iraq. Anyone who comes out of those wars with a clean conscious is a psychopath.
 
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That article reads like a hatchet job. It's a lot easier to retain a security clearance than to apply for one when you have. You can argue that's unfair but a lot of intelligence roles are understaffed as is. It's also a very high stress job and a lot of employees turn to alcohol drugs as a coping mechanism.

Also, being sectioned isn't the same as a mental illness. Even PTSD is largely a made up concept. American soldiers commit war crimes (or witness them happening by fellow soldiers), then years later feel guilty about it. Oh, so you can't stop thinking about that Iraqi family your colleagues massacred you were forced to keep quiet about? That's not guilt you're feeling, you have a mental illness!.

Historically it didn't exist because either soldiers knew what they were getting into, or were fighting a "good" moral war. American soldiers are in a unique position because they actually believe they are signing up for a good and moral cause, yet their actual deployments are like Nazi occupations.
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PTSD means post traumatic stress disorder. The reason why not all or even most veterans get PTSD is in the name.

Not all people who fight in wars go through trauma. But being a soldier working for one of the most brutal regimes in the 21st century is a good way to witness traumatic events, such as mass execution of civilians, butchering of children and women, and so on. Guilt and trauma come together as one package for those who have committed evil deeds. PTSD is defintely a real phenomenon.

It is nearly unheard of that PLA veterans from the Korea war or volunteers to Vietnam got PTSD. That's because they knew they were there to fight for a good cause, the army organization was professional and criminal acts seldom happened. And if a PLA soldier executed ROK/US civilians, it would be the whole unit prosecuting vs the rogue soldier, not the unit brass forcing the rest to cover up and work alongside the psychopath. So even if a war crime took place, it was easier to compartmentalize it as something bad individuals did rather than something we are all guilty of.

A minority of soldiers from those conflicts might have PTSD from intense fighting. But while I don't have any studies to back this up, I would think that humans actually have immense mental fortitude as long as they have social support networks. The act of clearing out trenches, firing artillery etc is not enough for most to cause crippling trauma.

It's only when compounded by horrific, anti-human acts, and/or if the veteran gets home and has no social support network at all, inducing them into depression, that severe PTSD manifestations occur.
 
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US conditions for normalizing relations between US and SA:

1. SA to not allow China to station troops in the Kingdom (I guess the Golden Wheel guys already there maintaining all the DF-21 don't count)
2. SA to not allow Huawei to do business
3. No trading oil in yuan
4. Increase oil production
5. SA to normalize relations with Israel

In return, Saudi Arabia raise the 3 following conditions towards the US:

1. US to provide security guarantee
2. US to build civilian nuclear power plants
3. Statehood for Palestine

I think they're just trolling each other now.
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Sounds like the Americans made this offer without consulting the Israelis. There's no way the current Israeli regime will agree to a Palestinian state. Unless the colour revolution in Israel succeeds.

As for security guarantees, against whom? Saddam is gone, and the Saudis have managed to make a peace deal, soon to be an alliance with the Iranians without any American involvement.

As for civilian NPP, this is a commercial decision and benefits America far more than Saudi. American nuclear technology is outdated and Chinese/Russian designs are commercially the better choice. Even European countries are now coming on board with Chinese nuclear technology.

So to summarise - America is asking the Saudis to do everything they want for very little in return.
 
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If the US was really willing to offer Palestinian independence from Israel, I’d take the deal too if I were Saudi Arabia. After all, the conditions the US is requesting can always be revoked later; but a Palestinian state cannot be without an invasion, which in this day and age Israel cannot afford to do without starting a huge war in the Middle East. It’s like trading temporary losses for long term gains.
 
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