I miss when people who got humiliated this badly had the decency to retire from public life.

I mean Egypt? Check. Jordan? Check. Saudi Arabia? Check. Some others like Iraq and Qatar are definitely dubious, but still it’s telling that Iran is America’s only geopolitical rival in the Middle East. This would’ve been unthinkable 50 years ago.

I mean, your ruling elites certainly do. You’d be able to tell immediately if that ever stopped being the case. The fact that it’s not acting in your interest or according to human rights is a consequence of the fact that America’s ruling elites don’t care about your interests or human rights.

I mean, the US has successfully controlled almost every other state in that part of the world. Iran has been uniquely resilient to American influence, but “controlling anybody over there” is one thing global superpowers tend to be good at.

Obviously present conditions have worsened this divide but its been years since the govenrment has had any capacity to work together to produce anything in a substantial timeframe.

To add to this: The government doesn’t have any capacity to work together to produce anything in a substantial timeframe because in liberal democracy both the ruling class and the public get a (sometimes spotty) veto on the government can do, and in 21st century America those two groups agree on little to nothing.

What happened in California?

Not 100% an answer to your question, but I was able to start reading reading Japanese fantasy novels around mid-B2 while using a dictionary and likely could’ve started earlier at the cost of more pain (and it was already plenty painful). Neither other language I speak is even remotely close to Japanese, so you can put lower B2 as an upper bound. With that in mind I could see upper B1 if the languages are close like in your example and the subject matter is on the simpler side, but A2 ain’t happening. At that point you’ll struggle too much to understand the grammatical expressions in the text to comprehend the subject matter.

Wow, West Germanic language family strikes again.

Yeah I’m questioning why OP posted it today.

Isn’t this old news? The match is already over.

The Armenian genocide was a genocide… and here’s how you could’ve done it better.

-Israel, probably.

It has already been thoroughly proven that that’s not the case. Rich people live where they do because they want to have the best lifestyle they can, not for tax reasons. There’s already no shortage of tax havens.

Uh… I’m sorry to tell you this but this article only improved my opinion of China. Which part of this was I supposed to read and say “those dastardly colonialist Chinese” again?

Got anything I can read about this?

That’s not quite how it works for the right. It’s not just that they do what sells (well they do that too); the right can reliably get the cooperation of mainstream media in amplifying its narratives, giving it outsized power in shaping public opinion. Also it’s not true that the far right is primarily supported by younger voters (see also: https://www.dw.com/en/afd-how-germanys-far-right-won-over-young-voters/a-69324954). Young voters today are more rightwing than past cohorts, but they’re still leftwing compared to other age groups. The far right gets support from all age groups, but when there’s a noticeable skew its towards older voters, not younger voters.

I guess it was my fault for expecting intellectual honesty from a Zionist.

I mean I’m willing to believe it is; I just haven’t seen any evidence for that.

My admittedly cursory understanding is a sort of asymmetrically beneficial soft debt trap colonisation of resources and services is proceeding throughout the continent.

That’s the propaganda spin, but it’s worse than wrong—it’s unfalsifiable. Any loan given to an African nation for any reason can and will be sold as debt trapping with no falsifiable explanation of what that actually means.

I doubt Chinese minds lay awake at night thinking of ways to help Africa. But Western sleep is not much disturbed in this way either.

Obviously, but China’s interests align with those of African countries somewhat more than those of the West, since the latter wants cheap resources while the former wants middle class markets for its goods. Either way though there’s a far cry between non-altruistic loans and neocolonialism.

Really?

Yes. I read that page and it is utterly ridiculous.

The attack resulted in the deaths of 1,163 Israelis and foreigners, two thirds of whom were civilians. The genocidal acts that were said to have been committed include mass killings, dismemberment, infliction of serious bodily and mental harm, immolation, rape and sexual violence, infanticide, and decapitation.

Keyword “were said.” See below.

Hamas are stabbing babies

No. Hope you’ll stop spreading Israeli propaganda now.

Got any recommendations?