@AcademicAgent_X Although Israel did get some arms from America through smuggling with help from organised crime in the USA
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MrZippy
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@AcademicAgent_X Not read that book but in 1948 the chief arms supplier to Israel was Czechoslovakia. As the latter was a Soviet client state by then it's implausible they did this without Moscow's approval. US and GB had arms embargo against all the belligerents in that war.
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In case anyone is interested, I suspect the book by Glubb mentioned here is this one. As I recall, there's a lot more Russian involvement in his analysis than I expected.
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@AcademicAgent_X Reading Glubb at the moment - he's quite even handed in his apportioning of blame. Suspect this will be a biased hatchet job
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@AcademicAgent_X They're not alone in having that mentality but it is very third worldist for sure.
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The inability to cede ground is a weakness and not a strength. It makes them brittle. Israelis are generally too stupid to understand the basic ideas of Lao Tzu. This comes from low IQ.
Mr. Reply Guy@GenericSnarky
Being a good person is a sin to them btw
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@AcademicAgent_X Populism just seems to give us a choice between Reform's embarrassing boomer Butlins entertainer charlatanism and the Green's embarrassing millennial gay AIDS shit.
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I'm disappointed by this performance. Hannah Spencer couldn't think of anything better than "Oggy, oggy, oggy! Oi, oi, oi!"?
Obscure reference but I am reminded of Run DMC at Wrestlemania V who just came out and said "WRESTLEMANIA" over and over again.
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@eyepatchjack @AuronMacintyre youtu.be/KNxt4J7awL0?si… I prefer it where Chief O'Brien retires, teams up with James Bond in the London drugs business
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@trussliz You have a knack for adopting causes when they've lost any vitality or relevance. From what I've seen the most recent CPAC event was a huge flop. The Greenland and now Iran larks has made American conservatism toxic abroad. British right needs own path separate from America.
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Whether you follow me from the right or the left, I'd just like to remind you that I disavow and discourage all placard activism as the least effective form of political action: 1. you must ask government permission ("please may we protest you"), 2. easy to infiltrate, 3. gives enemy control.
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@BIDecomo @AcademicAgent_X Yes was aware our gvt handled the 30s better than USA at least in terms of the economy , still somewhat astonishing how well they did given the circumstances
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@collapsingnew @AcademicAgent_X The national government's response to the great depression was by international standards highly successful (much more than FDRs in terms of figures). Economic historians are quite aware of this. Good currency police using the the sterling area.
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Real-terms GDP per capita decade-on-decade growth for UK (i.e. when adjusting for inflation):
1910: +2.6%
1920: -1.4%
1930: +19.6%
1940: +26.0%
1950: +1.2%
1960: +24.6%
1970: +24.5%
1980: +20.1%
1990: +0.9%
2000: +10.1%
2010: +6.7%
2020: -21.8%
2026: -2.9% (6-year period)
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@0donsbastard @AcademicAgent_X Low productivity growth + mass immigration + inability due to banking crash to keep increasing personal debt like they did in Blair years to paper over the cracks
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UK GDP Per Capita in CONSTANT 1980 GBP:
1900 - £1,604
1910 - £1,646
1920 - £1,623
1930 - £1,942
1940 - £2,447
1950 - £2,477
1960 - £3,086
1970 - £3,843
1980 - £4,615
1990 - £4,656
2000 - £5,129
2010 - £5,472
2020 - £4,279
2026 - £4,155
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@AidanSimardone it's Israel backed America
America is an israeli proxy
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Why is it always “Iran backed Houthis” and not “American backed Israel”?
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@AcademicAgent_X x.com/i/status/19806… more nails in he coffin of the idea mass immigration was essential for the 'economy'. As for the peak in 2000s I wonder how much of that was due to personal debt peaking in those late Blair/Brown years just before the banking crisis
MrZippy@collapsingnew
@AcademicAgent_X Credit card economy: Personal debt boomed, productivity stagnant, trade balance worsened, manufacturing continued to decline
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UK GDP Per Capita in CONSTANT 1980 USD
1980 - $10,032
1990 - $10,119
2000 - $11,144
2010 - $11,893
2020 - $9,300
2026 - $9,030
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Bit past its sell-by date, isn't it?
Vote MAGA, get Neocon? She was quite fond of a bit of warplonkery. Maybe that's what she means.
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'It is what is needed for a right-wing revival in Britain.' Former Prime Minister Liz Truss says a Donald Trump MAGA style movement is 'what is needed' in the UK to bring about a 'right-wing revival' in British politics.
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@mehblehdontcare @AcademicAgent_X When I first saw all the older Bond films when I was 12/13 details like that usually went over my head. Revisiting them when older it's fascinating recognising these little things
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@collapsingnew @AcademicAgent_X Ah! Now I feel dumb. I remember that too.
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Looking back, stuff like James Bond, the British Invasion bands, Michael Caine films etc were some EXCEPTIONAL cope for the loss of empire and status.
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@collapsingnew @AcademicAgent_X Interesting. I need to read the novel. I actually like the film even though a lot of people say it's "boring."
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@mehblehdontcare @AcademicAgent_X In Thunderball the front organisation for Spectre is the 'International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons'. Pretty based to present a refugee NGO to be the front for subversives 😄
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@collapsingnew @AcademicAgent_X And Blofeld and SPECTRE were kind of de facto Nazis minus the racial angle. Brutal "fascistic" extorters. Maybe the 'ghost' or uh...'spectre' of Nazi Germany, in a way.
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