lecoqsportif
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Yup. The network of corruption serves as the tie the binds the elite into loyal, closed cadre and can pivot to punish poor performers, rivals and defectors.
It’s the mafia.
It’s the mafia.
It's also pretty immaterial whether or not Putin personally ordered it or not. Navalny wasn't there on vacation. He was jailed for being a political opponent of Putin. Putin is responsible whether or not he ordered him dead.
The protests against Bibi and his racist government predate this conflict. They started when he was trying to pass legislation that would effectively neuter the judiciary as a check on the legislature.I legitimately don't get the opposition.
As far as I've heard, and at this point, I can't bring myself to immerse in all the news again like before, those Hamas cocksuckers reject every effort made by Israel (and other countries) to strike a balanced and sensible ceasefire. Seems like each time they want thousands of Hamas terrorists released before they do anything, and just basically given free rein to build out their terror apparatus all over again and just commit as many more October 7 incidents as they can. Their stated objective is to kill all Jews and destroy Israel.
So Netanyahu is supposed to be agreeing to their insane terms rather than resorting to violence to pound them into the dirt once and for all? As some have said, you can't negotiate with someone whose first and foremost demand is to kill you.