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🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Interesting analysis I found: Okay, an unpopular view over Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the possibility of it spreading into a regional war:
— Israel would be performing far better on the informational and diplomatic war if all European Governments were Right-wing right now
The Netanyahu-Ben Gvir-Smotrich Government not only had the bad luck of the conflict happening at the same moment of a War in Europe, but also:
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It was elected during a Democratic administration in US, with Biden's Cabinet is filled with Secular Jews and Reformed Jews (who are outspoken against Netanyahu and his Kahanist allies), whom historically a Social-Liberal leaning on its policies, but also are Pro 2 States solution and has a known distaste for Israeli policy in the West Bank
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Most of the European Governments at the moment are Social-Democrats or simply Social-Liberals, whose the population is somewhat tired of war due to the War in Ukraine
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Latin American political administrations, perhaps one of the few small diplomatic allies that Netanyahu had during the mid-2010s, are now mostly Left-wing and sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, mainly due to the anti-Zionist indoctrination and pro-Palestinian leanings that LatAm's democratic socialist and far-left groups have historically
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Israel is in diplomatic trouble with Moscow - whether Western analysts like it or not - had a special sympathy for past Netanyahu-Lieberman governments, but are now openly shaking hands with Hamas and hardcore anti-Zionist Palestinian factions, partially due to the fault of Lapid and Bennet, who during their government, which preceded the current one, made Israel move closer to Ukraine against Russia in the current conflict (mainly because some moderate Orthodox groups and secular Jews in Israel have Ukrainian origins)
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Neoconservatives and Evangelical Christians in US Congress and Senate, the most Pro-Israel Demographic in American politics, very well-represented over the past 40 years inside the Republican party, are now being both replaced by Isolationists America First/Trumpist guys, often from a Secular and not-so-religious backgrounds
For these reasons, I believe, Israel is capitalizing on its war propaganda in the wrong way.
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The population in the West, especially now that ISIS has lost its lands in Iraq and Syria, no longer cares about the War on Terror Narrative.
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Islamic Radicalism is no longer a problem for the average liberal Joe in the EU and USA and try to appeal to redditor-like sentimentality is a failure as agitprop
Western liberals in general only tend to care about issues far from their homelands when the "problem" arrives in their lands (see 9/11 and the wave of brutal terrorist attacks on European soil in the mid-2010s when the international Coalition intervened in Iraq)
If Israel wants to be perceived as a "Bastion of Western Civilization" in the Middle East, as the pro-Zionist media and national-conservative actors around here on social medias so much falsely love to portray it, nothing is fairer than for it to dance to the music, just as Bibi did in 2010s during the 2014 Gaza War.
Waiting for liberal Governments to support the Colonization of the West Bank or, more importantly, accepting the normalization of the institutionalization of racial policies by the Israeli Authorities is like waiting for milk to come out of a rock in the desert.
Instead of expecting support from European liberal governments exponentially disinterested in foreign issues (and even disinterested in domestic issues) it is foolish.
If Israel wants Europeans and a good part of the so-called Western World to support its policies perhaps this is a good time when they will start openly supporting "extreme right" candidates (not just making them release vague statements of "We stand with Israel 🇮🇱🤝🇪🇺🇺🇸 , but literally financing and promoting them) in a kind of Quid Pro Quo between the Jews and them on certain topics.
Ukrainian forces have begun training and testing exoskeletons for battlefield use. Soldiers from the 147th Separate Artillery Brigade are using them in the Pokrovsk sector for both logistics and frontline operations. The goal is to reduce physical strain, especially when loading heavy artillery shells into howitzers without automatic loaders. Artillery crews can handle up to 1200 kg of ammunition per day, and early tests show that exoskeletons help them work faster and with less fatigue Above all, by improving the conditions for those soldiers on the front lines who handle such heavy loads, plus the stress of work. Seeking to reduce overall fatigue in the troops
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 - 14 wounded in Iranian missile strike in central Israel, according to Israeli media.
🇬🇧🇮🇶 - A drone struck British Castrol oil warehouses in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, causing extensive damage.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran launched 9 missiles towards Israel this morning alone, with at least 3 of them being cluster missiles.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Over the past 12 hours, Hezbollah launched counterattacks in Khiam and Qantara, in the Nabatieh direction, southeast Lebanon. Hezbollah recaptured northern Khiam, with fighting ongoing for the south of the town. Hezbollah units also re-entered Qantara; frontline sources reported clashes in the center of the town last night.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - 48 IDF soldiers have been wounded in clashes with Hezbollah over the last 24 hours in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli Army.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - "The Israeli army is barely catching its breath in southern Lebanon, and its resources are less than in the previous round of fighting," - Haaretz....
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This is a bank run, not a normal withdrawal.
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🇺🇸 President Trump wants to switch to war economy in 2027 with massive increase in military spending and massive cuts to healthcare and other domestic agencies
Once a deficit hawk — he said in 2016 that he thought he could balance the budget in five years — Trump ended his first term with $7.8 trillion in added debt. His 2027 proposal is expected to give an update on 10-year deficit projections currently estimated at around $16 trillion.
The GOP's message for the Midterms will be focused on the "need" for a massive defense build up while the Democrats' message will be focused on affordability.
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Investors in US Treasuries will be looking to see if the debt and ...
