Tag: international relations

Turmoil at C.D.C., a School Shooting in Minneapolis, Israel’s Exhausted Soldiers

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Trump damaging the CDC, which is losing key employees due to the administration not understanding scientific evidence.

Some Israeli military units are exhausted and not showing up for the new invasion of Gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtLQNCgagQ

How China’s $285M Export Hub in Brazil Will Cost U.S. Billions | WSJ Center Point

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Because of the trade war, China is getting more agriculture goods from Brazil than the U.S.. China is building a port in Brazil to get even more from Brazil and even less from the U.S.. Too bad for U.S. farmers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4l_wHA8kvk

Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein

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Treating the Israelis simply as settler colonialists that inherently need to genocide the people they stole their land from gives the Palestinians no agency. It ignores that Palestinians really could have had a Palestinian state but some Palestinians have repeatedly made that not possible by acts of terror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_ppEHXs3w

Trump Promised ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.

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“In most cases, Trump’s tariffs are significantly higher than the tariffs charged by other countries on American goods.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/18/trump-promised-reciprocal-tariffs-the-numbers-tell-a-different-story/

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