To back away now would leave Iran as the new hegemon in the region. We would face profound economic and strategic consequences as the petrodollar is rerouted to China, and the Gulf states realign their loyalties, policies and investments.

This would impact us with mounting interest rates, inflation and slower growth. U.S. credibility as an ally and global force would be shattered. Withdrawing from NATO would only deepen the problem.

This war has fucked the US over.

IKR?!!! the hypocrisy!

Why Australia? Let him go! He’s a freedom fighter!

One day he’s preparing heavy troops deployment sending thousands more to the middle east, the next he says he wants to wind down. Talk about mixed messaging!

The scam compounds in Southeast Asia are operated by Chinese organized crime.

That’s it. US has lost this war.

Centuries. They are historic rivals. Regardless of religion.

Iranians are Persians.

lol is that true? are you german?

This was clearly a naval warfare exercise using Chinese civilian fleet. The largest fishing fleet in the world.

The Israeli state no longer pretend that they have morals or values. This is outright admission they are abusers rapists murders. The entire state should be put on trial for war crimes.

56 is by official Chinese count. There are many, MANY more. China doesn’t recognize them.

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion,” Smith writes in the 1,000-page-plus tome, which draws on everything from ​grape-growing to pin factories. “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable,” he says in one of his best-known quotes.

Well yes you can when you become an Iranian citizen. How about the Donnie boy?

The article is wrong. He got the uranium from mines in Burma. He was trying to sell it elsewhere. It’s the same area where the ethnic rebels are mining rare earths.

I’m sure he’s now in some mile-deep bunker.

Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?

It benefits China strategically and economically. Long term military wise, if Russia remains an active land mass threat to Europe, much of Europe and US will build a military for armed land conflict in Europe while leaving their strategic initiatives in the Pacific and Indian ocean underinvested leaving China to grow its power there. In the same way China is using Pakistan and the occasional skirmish in the useless high altitude Himalayas to keep India’s military focused on building a land-based military while leaving Indian ocean and its naval fleets underinvested.

This is a story worth watching. She has a pending jail sentence which the establishment can use against her anytime they wish.

This is the evil axis.