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Per the article, Iraq always has a Shiite Prime Minister, Kurdish President, and Sunni leader of Parliament.

Albania is already notoriously corrupt.

So Adams might fit right in, but I doubt he’s going to move the needle.

I’m sorry, am I supposed to sympathize with these despicable people?

If anything about that story is sad, it’s that he escaped.

Frankly, I would be shocked if at minimum of 95% of the “UK expats” who moved to Dubai to “make their fortune”, don’t deserve torture.

Evil people, doing evil things, in an evil place, and I should feel what for them now? Sympathy? Get fucked.

jfc you really have no idea how any of this works, but even that isn’t enough to prevent you from being supremely confident.

Congratulations, you are the target demographic for this Uber expenditure.

Why do you think they combined the lawyer and hospital/healthcare share?

This is designed specifically to almost sound reasonable on the surface, but is really intended to strongly discourage lawyers from suing them.

They are trying to legally eliminate the incentive structure (compensation) for the class of people (lawyers) necessary to hold them financially accountable.

And why do you think Uber is funding it?

I don’t disagree with your premise, because it is in Ukraine’s interest to push this idea as far and loud as possible.

But, I think if you read between the lines on how Ukraine is communicating their assessment on the different implications for how many times Russians take satellite photos, it sounds like the Ukrainians either have some sort of system access to Russian satellite imaging, communication intercepts, or a human source.

Of course they could just be speaking confidently about the number of images taken to advance their own goals, with no actual intelligence behind it, but I don’t think he’d put himself in that position.

But, who knows? You know as much as I do.

Some of the only people less trustworthy than Trump, are that Pakistani military leadership, and they’re often supplicant to America.

So yeah, I don’t think anyone in the region is bullish on any sort of peace process led by Pakistan, that Trump has to sign off on.

50/50 they will just drone strike the Iranian negotiators, as America and Israel have done many times before.

I still this is more a PR strategy than anything.

Allies or enemies, oil is a global market, and every ship they let through removes just a little bit of pressure from the global economy, which is their only leverage.

Each ship obviously means a great deal for the country receiving it, so I don’t want to minimize that gesture, but I’m skeptical at how many they can plausibly let transit the straight, before it becomes counterproductive to their war aims of using their asymmetric economic leverage for victory.

This isn’t the 1980s.

Yes, the Petro dollar is an important part of American hegemony, but it’s not load-bearing like it once was. It’s role in propping up the dollar has been replaced by the financial markets.

So yeah, it would not be good for American power, but it would not cripple it by any stretch.

I think so fad I’ve only seen these claims made in Turkish media, but I hope it’s true.

There are no happy endings here, but if the pedophiles and slave traders who run the GCC are made to truly suffer for their support of Donald Trump, I won’t be displeased.