I think the governments are moving because of Trump mostly. Europeans are moving because of Americans. On top of that everyone is moving because of Microsoft.

That should be more than enough reason to do it.

Israel, convincing the USA to attack Iran.

You can remove the words “acting like”

I was mostly referring to the lack of transport electrification.

South Africa dodged a similar problem, our last president sold our 90 day reserve to his Dubai buddies below market rate. Fortunately our new multiparty government has competent people in place that fixed that before this crisis. Thus our fuel price is “only” going up by 15%, rather than tracking the oil price. It will go up more eventually, but some buffer is being provided for to soften the blow.

I am very surprised that australia and new Zeeland did not have bigger reserves, given they are on the end of a long supply chain and conflict in indonesia and china can cut off supply for a long time, not the mention a middle east crisis.

Also the “red hat” motherfuckers in australia that kept australia so dependant on fossil fuels when it has some of the best natural resources for wind and solar power.

I used to think that they are defending the office, rather than the individual. And that is the honorable thing to do regardless of the person. But when you see them assisting that person to stage an assasination, I realised they are in the cult too.

Time to start excommunicating people that do then. What’s taking so long?

The devil is in the details. Much like with drug testing, its not easy and there are always people trying to beat the testing system.

The solution is not “what the athlete/country says”. They are testing for sex, not gender.

But you also can’t let the test be too simplistic, otherwise some people might be unfairly excluded.

But given the complexity of the biology and medical testing in general, it is unreasonable to expect that no-one will be unfairly excluded, or unfairly included.

The question is, do you want to bias it to let people though unfairly, or exclude people unfairly?

Ultimately they need to do what is most fair to most compeditors and credible for the sport.

How do you liberate a town that has never been part of your country?

You can see all the messages the ships are putting on their trackers to try and avoid getting hit by insurgents and the IRGC in the region.

Things like “Chinese owned,” “Russian crude,” or “no link to Israel”, “all Muslim crew”.

It does not surprise me they are stealing ship identities.

They should send them to economists instead. So the economists can learn why people dont have children.

Only if it is linked to an online service or update service. In the absence of that they need to hard bake their enshitification strategy upfront.

As they say. The cloud is someone else’s computer.

Emphasis on someone else

It is conplicated agreed.

They certainly have enough agency to deal with the minor powers in the region. But Iran and Israel are too powerful to deal with, without some outside superpower.

Back in the second Bush Era the Saudi’s heavily influenced the US and were able to convince them to deal with Saddam

But this time round it was the Zionists that contributed more. The Arab powers were also a lot more fragmented in terms of their strategy. They are rivals after all.

The Zionists paid more.

As a thought exercise, I was considering what the other countries in the middle east could have done to avoid this conflict.

I ended up with nothing reliable. They did not have sufficient power to address the problems in the Iranian regime. And even if they could, the US would likely just be attacking the next state on Israel’s hit list and cause similar problems.

The only thing that might have gotten close, is to outspend the Zionists in their interference in US politics.

Those bases were originally built to protect them from soviet imperialism

Now its being used to forward Israeli imperialism.

The irony.

The US government can not be trusted. The UK government can not be trusted. The Iranian government can not be trusted. The Israeli government can not be trusted.

I think I am starting to see a pattern.