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@eurochallenges Yeah good luck with that. Europe should be making deals with Iran not criminal Gulf Arabs who have fully thrown in with america/Israel.

If Europe was capable of moving swiftly as a geopolitical player (and hadn’t underinvested in defence for decades) now could be the time to setup some kind of petroeuro deal with the EU + Ukraine and Saudi Arabia + other gulf countries, no?

@SamoBurja Baltic languages won't exist in 50 years. Freedom.

I guess Eastern Europe learned nothing from Western Europe's failed multicultural experiment. That the general population is opposed to it means nothing, they were also opposed to it in Canada, Britain, California... The locals have no idea what is coming.

@antiphasis_ @History__Speaks No facts were known in the world before 24/7 global internet inter-connectivity.

@History__Speaks not a single fact is known. the internet is cut.

There hasn't even been widespread security forces desertions or defections. 'But they'll kill defectors' Yeah, and so do most authoritarian regimes. And liberal democracies also severely punish defection through long prison sentences. If the government - which I agree is unpopular - were as unpopular as the diaspora monarchists claim, i.e. 95% or so opposed, we'd have seen these things by now.

@History__Speaks Why shouldn't they kill defectors exactly? They are dealing with a psycho who is threatening to eradicate their civilisation. The idea democracies wouldn't be killing defectors or even dissenters in such a situation is laughable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Cas…

@tavioto @andreasklinger The EU is not a democracy but a supranational organisation of democracies for which this was a fundamental rule. Not understanding that fact and being confused about it is what is "stupid"

This unanimity thing is something I never understood from the EU. Democracies are not about unanimity; they are about the majority. It is not perfect and probably historically not consistent with how democracy was designed, but expecting everyone will always agree with everything is just stupid.

Super important. Imagine the US couldn't do something important b/c Texas would not agree with California or vice versa. Europe has 27 countries and expects unanimity (100% votes) on all bigger issues. This is statiscally is absurdly unlikely (1/27 is lower than statistical significance in practice) It's by design. To keep leverage with country leaders. But in times of large blocks power brokering over each other hopelessly outdated.

@andreasklinger >Imagine the US couldn't do something important b/c Texas would not agree with California or vice versa. Yes, the world would be a much better place. Terrible I know if America was only able to terrorise and bomb people when its population actually supported it. Scary thought

@NewLeftEViews This will surely make people like Israel more.

The Yadan bill is explicitly supported by Lecornu, is being fast tracked and is expected to pass. It would be by far the most extreme manifestation of the trend of curtailing elementary civil rights in the name of stifling criticism of Israeli-US interests (and elite paranoia about ‘left extremism’ and Islamism), dwarfing anything in the UK and Germany.

@BrunoTertrais No one cares what you idiotic and criminal babblers think. Iran will take that right and more, and you will cry about it like a tantruming child.

There has never been a positive « right to enrichment », for Iran or anyone else. This tiresome claim keeps raising its ugly head. It’s been 20 years now ffs.

@rosewatercandy @Lisan_Al_Gaib33 @Osinttechnical Not in the short term. Iran is only dependent on food imports for feed.

@Lisan_Al_Gaib33 @Osinttechnical Train/Truck/Sea are not the same. It will cause shortages.

A U.S. blockade on Iranian ports is set to rapidly hit food imports to the Islamic republic, according to commodities provider Kpler -WSJ The blockade is set to affect almost 983,000 tons of grains and oilseeds already underway.

@firasmodad That's not relevant to western governments criminal attempts to brand anyone who opposes them as terrorists and thus to justify being able to murder them at will, and deny them any legal rights. It's sophistry and also illegal under international law.

The IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood are both threats to the West. One can be strategic about this and say the Shi'a are a lesser problem than the Sunnis. But they should be seen as equals.

@highfields2020 @ClarkeMicah @GypsyBoots8 What you think about the deal is fucking irrelevant, retard.

@DerUntermutt @ClarkeMicah @GypsyBoots8 The JCPOA… really? You’re using that pile of dogshit deal as proof?

.@gypsyboots8 Yes, at the end of February Iran was negotiating in good faith, according to independent intermediaries the talks were making progress. Then, with no declaration of war, the USA and Israel assassinated the government and began armed attacks on Iran. Imagine what you’d say if it had been the other way round.

@RestoreBritain_ You should be proscribed and deported, bunch of spineless cretins

We must proscribe the IRGC, and deport any foreign nationals with direct links to that appalling organisation.

@morris_que14 What Chinese air defense system were the Iranians using? Everything they used was native.

Why would he need to do that? didn’t Chinese AD systems already miserably failed over the skies of Pakistan and Iran?

@highfields2020 @ClarkeMicah @GypsyBoots8 Wilful ignorance is not forgivable, so no. Iran abided by the JCPOA in good faith until Trump tore it up.

@ClarkeMicah @GypsyBoots8 Forgive me but I doubt the Islamic Republic have ever negotiated anything in ‘good faith’.

@GypsyBoots8 @ClarkeMicah The hard evidence is that america massacred the Iranians' head of State and his family, and then 150 schoolchildren, in the middle of negotiations, when the foreign minister of Oman had just said Iran had agreed to no stockpiling and the negotiations had been successful.

@ClarkeMicah So you believe in Iran's good faith and doubt America's. You cannot possibly have hard evidence either way, so you have made a choice.

@RokoMijic >government is bad by nature You just made that up and it is basically an a priori claim that underpins your entire argument. I can just as easily, and with far better evidence, claim that government is good by nature.

This guy is like "I'd be happy to pay high taxes if the government used it wisely", "politicians need to be held accountable for how they spend public money", "social welfare is too high" But he still fundamentally *doesn't get it* The whole reason we have - private property - firms that can make a profit if they do well, or go bankrupt if they do badly - personal finances and salaries rather than communism is because it's hard to hold governments accountable. Government is bad by nature and it should be minimized. There's no such thing as a well-run, large state. A well-run state is a small state that gets out of the way and lets other mechanisms with greater accountability do the work.

@mattforney (you)

It took the threat of a blockade to get Iran to completely fold. They lost, they know it, they're finally admitting it because the alternative is not simply physical annihilation, but economic annihilation. Every one of you idiots who believed Iran's propaganda has no idea how the brownoid mind works. The brownoid is hot air. He is sound and fury, signifying nothing. When the legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey was sent to Egypt in 1956 to report on the Suez Crisis, he spent the first two days hiding under his hotel bed listening to bloodcurdling radio broadcasts about how the Egyptians would bathe in the Israelis' blood and spear their newborns on their bayonets. He then realized that Arabs talk like that when they're haggling over cab fare. A lot of threats, a lot of chest-puffing, but nobody ever throws a punch. This is the Iranian equivalent of izzat collapsing. They have been completely exposed. Not only can America glass their entire country, a prolonged blockade will sever them from the world economy entirely. The rest of the world has already adjusted to the Strait's closure and is now buying oil and gas from the U.S. Those are customers Iran will struggle to get back even when the Strait is reopened. The human factor is now being priced in. If you're literally anyone else in the world, do you want to buy oil from a country run by 84-IQ savages who throw a sperg fit, lob missiles at neutral countries, and demand a toll like medieval highwaymen? No, you don't. You're going to buy from the U.S., which has a larger supply and is stable, trustworthy, and won't threaten to sink your ships in the middle of an autistic tantrum. Put simply, this war has completely crushed Iran not only as a military power, but as an economic one. Even if the IRGC clings onto power, they will be a poorer, weaker nation as their customers trade with America instead, and what customers they DO get back will have America dictating the terms of trade. To use an old Cold War term, Iran has been Finlandized. No Iran. The world has moved past the need for Iran.

@AcademicAgent_X Because they think they can use a pause in hostilities to their own advantage, clearly.

Don’t get why Tel Aviv isn’t being pounded again. Explain. If the deal is off there’s no ceasefire?

@Camrjohnson Foreign minister of a fake country with English as its official language takes the principles of the anglo-american system as his own, news at 11!

Fascinating comments on The Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, and shipping by the Singaporean Foreign Minister. This is taken with great credibility here in Asia.

@mdubowitz Hilarious acting like the US was a good faith party in any of these, as if the US was over-conciliatory! Ha! What utterly ignorant and deranged nonsense. You ought to be committed.

Let’s hope the final offer and walkway approach continues. Don’t be Albright chasing Arafat. Don’t be Kerry chasing Zarif. Don’t be Carter hoping the ayatollah will suddenly become reasonable. Final offer delivered. The White House switchboard is there if they want to call.