Tag: war

Are ‘Forever Wars’ Always Bad?

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In certain situations, a forever war may be the best option. If the cost of the war is low, the cost of total victory too high/total victory is not possible, and the consequences of defeat great, then the best of bad options may be forever war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DkKPV8n1YI

The ‘Day After’ Plan for Gaza That Netanyahu Doesn’t Want to Talk About

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“Netanyahu insists that these initiatives “reward” terror. On the contrary, they make his espoused goal more likely: a regional deal in which Hamas is isolated by the Arab world, and the Palestinian Authority, which long ago agreed to the two-state solution, takes the lead in legitimizing and helping to buttress a new Gazan administration.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/09/gaza-palestinian-authority-west-bank-business-00492175

Doctors in Gaza struggle to fight rare paralytic illness under Israeli blockade

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“Dangerous viruses that cause severe paralytic illness are thriving in Gaza, where starving children living under an Israeli blockade can’t access the food or treatments they need to recover.

For months, health officials have warned that the destruction of the Gaza Strip’s sanitation facilities by Israel could fuel the surge of infectious diseases, as seen in last year’s polio outbreak. Now, doctors are reporting a surge in cases of acute flaccid paralysis, a rare syndrome causing muscle weakness that can make it hard to breathe and swallow.

Cases in Gaza include acute flaccid myelitis, which mostly affects children, and the better-known Guillain-Barré syndrome, said Ahmed al-Farra, head of pediatrics at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/doctors-gaza-struggle-fight-rare-paralytic-illness-under-israeli-blockade-acute-flaccid-paralysis-guillain-barre/

Why Munich 1938 concessions to Nazi Germany haunt Washington 2025 talks

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“Vladimir Putin’s desire to grab Ukraine’s key defensive lines echoes how Adolf Hitler secured Czechoslovakia’s fortifications.

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“Ukraine has spent the last 11 years pouring time, money and effort into reinforcing the fortress belt and establishing significant defense industrial and defensive infrastructure in and around these cities,” the institute said.

If that happens, Russia would move its frontline roughly 80 kilometers further west, while Ukraine would be forced to build new defenses on flat and open terrain in neighboring Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk — far harder to hold than the fortified cities it controls now.

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In September 1938, Adolf Hitler argued that handing over the ethnic-German majority Sudetenland region to the Reich would satisfy his ambitions and end the threat of war in Europe. France and Britain agreed, and browbeat Prague into accepting. Hitler — whose word was as reliable as Putin’s — said he had no further territorial ambitions.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-war-in-ukraine-adolf-hitler-czechoslovakia/