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OT: World Politics

LeafGm said:
To be fair to King Chucky, this whole gross, farcical spectacle with Trump wasn’t his doing, and he had no choice but to go along with it. Doing anything otherwise would mean challenging the primacy of Parliament and attempting to reassert royal authority.

Keir Starmer, the spineless, pathetic little weasel that he is, is the one responsible for this.
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Actually I think Starmer is playing a bit of "realpolitik" with Trump. You wine and dine him, shower him with insincere praise and he'll say "Prime Minister Starmer was very nice to me" not realizing that he just got played like a fiddle.
 
axlsalinger said:

View: https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1969768608315166759
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Canada now officially recognizes the state of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mark Carney's office released Sunday morning.

"Over many decades, Canada's commitment to [a two-state solution] was premised on the expectation that this outcome would eventually be achieved as part of a negotiated settlement," the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said.

However, that possibility "has been steadily and gravely eroded" by several developments, including the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Israeli parliament's resolution supporting annexation of the occupied West Bank and the Israeli government's restrictions on humanitarian aid.

"Hamas has terrorized the people of Israel and oppressed the people of Gaza, wreaking horrific suffering," the PMO statement said. "Hamas has stolen from the Palestinian people, cheated them of their life and liberty and can in no way dictate their future."
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Those commitments include governance reforms, general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part and the demilitarization of the Palestinian state.
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The Republicans also argued that recognition sets a precedent "that violence, not diplomacy, is the most expedient means for terrorist groups like Hamas to achieve their political aims."

Rae said he disagrees "most emphatically with that view" and that Canada's approach is not meant to embolden Hamas.

"This is not intended in any way, shape or form to change Canada's support for the existence and the security of the state of Israel," he said.

The PMO's statement said Canada's recognition "in no way legitimizes terrorism, nor is it any reward for it."
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Russians provoking NATO in air space…

To what end? Distract from Ukraine? Demonstrate to the Euros the US is unreliable?

I mean, they’d gone enormous harm to their own conventional capacity.
 
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