China’s the only country Israel can’t blackmail?

As far as I can tell it’s not “especially” weapons export, it’s exclusively weapons export. European arms embargoes are good, but China seems to have gone farther here and stands alone in willing to do a larger general ban. According to the article it’s not just one company, China has declared that Israel is a “red zone” for investors and have prohibited any investment. Though, sure, this might actually just be something being made up for the lawsuit.

The pragmatic choice would be to continue investing in Israel, which is why everyone else still does it.

Why isn’t any other country making this pragmatic choice?

So is their necromancy, since tons of people declared “executed” by tabloids are later seen alive.

Why is China the only country reading the room?

Yeah I was gonna say, swag bag Machato ripped the mask away. This shit is just a prize we give to the empire’s dogs.

This Canadian chauvinism is really weird.

The internet is international. If you don’t want to talk to non-Canadians, go outside and talk to your neighbors. The internet is not for you because most people on most websites aren’t Canadian.

We briefly experimented with the idea during Reconstruction and then quickly got rid of it.

Naw that’s just rent in LA.

On the other hand, she dodged a bullet.

I was told that royal families are all ceremonial and that they don’t have any real power, but we keep finding them embroiled with people who have real power.

Really makes you think.

We know you have sugar water in there!

It’s popular among his base!

There is, in fact, a solid core of Trump supporters who really believe he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and really believe he’s solved 8+ wars and that he’s a peacetime president. They’re not the majority but I don’t see how it’s useful to deny the fact that these people exist. He’s still losing support, but that also demonstrates that he still has support left to lose.

A lot of them think Trump “solved” the conflict, you can’t just ignore this.

It’s one of the reasons he keeps demanding a peace prize, his little pig cult believes it.

You’re following normal people. Are you actively following rightoid freaks?

I guarantee you that there are people who believe that Trump already saved Gaza and that all the news coming out now is fake.

There have to be at least a few people who believe his “peace president” bullshit.

It’s currently $1.6 billion in the hole, and adding $227 million per month because the fund is being looted. Seems like something any large country could step in and resolve with additional funding, gaining a huge amount of leverage for a very reasonable price.

What do you mean “holding” an asset? If they aren’t holding it within their borders in their own vaults then it’s just paper. The US can just say “that’s ours now” and steal it, it’s no more a viable asset than the oil being stolen from Venezuela.

Worse, if they pull their gold out too fast it might cause the US to react by locking the vaults anyway.

It’s a rock and a hard place. They fucked up by ever trusting the US.

If the gold isn’t in your physical hands then it still has ties to the nation that it’s stored in and is subject to its politics.

When people buy gold, they buy certificates of ownership. They don’t buy literal hunks of bullion. The gold is still physically in a vault, and a lot of that gold is stored in the US itself. So, what happens if the US says “actually, that gold is ours now”?