My personal guess is that Zaluzhnyi has some something bad (like corruption) that is about to become public, and Zelenskiy wants to be ahead of the curve in order to minimize the impact on the country’s defense. This is the only situation where this move would make sense to me, at least.

As with any vaccine, it only lowers the risk of catching it, it doesn’t eliminate it.

I suspect that Zelinskiy knows something the analyst don’t.

The worst thing about it is that both parties are neoliberal. On the economics side, it’s just an illusion of choice. They only differ on social issues.

Israel argued that because Jews were affected by a genocide, Israel is therefore unable to commit it themselves.

Then Biden is ignoring that this might cost him the reelection that’s coming up. Left-leaning people even in the US aren’t that keen on genocide, and a lot of them might just elect to stay at home rather than voting for an enabler.

Also explains why Israel doesn’t want the hostages back.

Not only that, it’s also a complete crazy pants interpretation of the Christian Bible. US politics is held captive by lunatics.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical-christians-israel-hamas-war

“What will come soon [is] the antichrist and his seven year empire that will be destroyed in the battle of armageddon. Then Jesus Christ will set up his throne in the city of Jerusalem. He will establish a kingdom that will never end,” Hagee said.

Many US voters see Israel as the way to get to the end times, Judgement Day. Not doing whatever Israel wants is political suicide.

I think an additional aspect is that if Jews all leave for Israel, there are no more left in Germany, which they are striving for very much. I don’t think that most German Nazis absolutely want to kill them, they just want them to be gone out of their lives.

That was the reason why modern Israel was founded in the first place, nobody in the West wanted to keep the Jews at home, so they made them a place where they could stay. That was better publicity than killing them.

If Eugenics means being able to heal MS, I’m all for Eugenics!

It’s not news in the context of the US, this happens like every week there. Children get shot at school and have to be identified. Business as usual.

Then nobody ever can comment on anything, because such a thing as having all the facts doesn’t exist.

The NHS, wages and civil rights were all on the chopping block of the Tories for decades, and people still voted for them in droves.

The problem with that approach is that just finding a scapegoat doesn’t solve the issue. The Brits and the EU still have to live with the consequences.

The proper way to address this is to analyze what happened and make sure that it will never happen again. If the result of that analysis is that voters are fucking idiots, we somehow have to alleviate that.

Putin is playing the long game by buying up political parties all over Europe and the US for the last decade, and now it’s starting to pay off.

Basically he gambled that Putin will die before him.

Well, that didn’t work out as planned for him.

I’ll never understand why he intentionally let himself be captured by Russia. The outcome was inevitable.