basilico: When Israel pulled out Gaza then those Arabs there in voted for Hamas,attacks started m When they were not firing rockets they were digging tunnels to infiltrate Israel. They were getting armed by Iran mostly. The blockade is to prevent arms smuggling shipments by sea. They havea 20 nautical mile range for fishing shrimp ,prawns etc . On Oct 7 Hamas Seal Team Six infiltrated Israel via the sea.
I'm shocked you didn't know all that .
I know the thinking of Israel. So long as that thinking continues, the vicious cycle will continue.
I hope you avert your mind to the fact that some people in Israeli politics actually profit from the continuation of this cycle.
You simply cannot imprison and enslave people like that and expect that there will be no resistance.
And the nature of humanity is such that the impulse for liberty will continue to grind against the jackboot of suppression. It will not stop.
benalvino3: This argument is like Tucker Carlson going to Russia and spreading propaganda.
Where is your argument exactly?
Travel to China is not an argument. I can accept China has beautiful cities, high-speed rail, advanced factories and impressive infrastructure without accepting the propaganda that China will overtake America in every respect.
Tourism shows you the showcase. Economics shows you the structure.
China has wonders, but it also has property collapse, weak consumption, youth unemployment, demographics, debt and political rigidity.
So what exactly does travel prove?
That Shanghai has skyscrapers? I never denied that.
Your comments betrayed you have deep seated ignorance about China or deep seated bias or both. Imagine mentioning Temu to judge China. And what turmoil?
Trump worship is at the bottom of this. Give it ten years. China will surely outstrip the USA economically. Max 20 years.
benalvino3: You are shifting the argument. This is your useless pattern almost always.
Nobody says Africa should have become Rome or Britain in 60 years.
The point is simple: after independence, many African countries already had basic functioning systems: roads, railways, public schools, hospitals, water boards, civil service structures, etc.
A serious country should improve those systems over time, not let them collapse.
So comparing Africa to post-Roman Britain is not the same thing.
Britain after Rome was dealing with a collapse of empire, invasions, fragmentation, and a completely different historical period.
Modern African states inherited 20th-century institutions, access to global technology, international trade, development aid, universities, engineers, and examples from other countries. First bank was created by our colonialisers.
I showed budaatum a civilization in 2026 that have not figured out the canoe. No colonialization on them, no development. They haven't even gotten to the stone age.
The issue is not that colonialism had no effect. Of course it did. Positive and negative effect. The issue is that after 60+ years, blaming colonialism for every failure becomes an excuse for bad leadership, corruption, poor planning, tribal politics, lack of accountability, and zero maintenance culture.
Again, f we had clean running water in some places decades ago and now people need boreholes, that is regression. If roads are rebuilt from scratch every few years because nobody maintains them, that is not Rome’s fault. That is governance failure.
History explains some starting conditions. It does not excuse permanent incompetence.
Alright, this is not a bad write up to be fair, but let me seize on just one thing. Institutions cannot be inherited. They need to be built. I'll be back.
Britain after Rome was dealing with a collapse of empire, invasions, fragmentation, and a completely different historical period.
There we go. Always quick to see the point for whites. But you can say this and imagine that Africa had/ has no similar extenuating circumstances?
raumdeuter: In international politics, it is significant
Not one random instance where they were just taking a picture. Yes, I know the usual protocol, but this was really a one off. To prove your case you will have to show that Biden was routinely back benched in his travels or at events generally.
benalvino3: You cannot lecture me ones you bring history. We've had our independence since the 1960s and back then we used to have clean running water without installing boreholes.
Maybe not widely scaled across the board, but a functional country could have improved on that but instead the opposite is true.
We are stuck on building one road over and over again. They build it from scratch almost everytime instead of minor maintenance here and there.
Africans don't have the culture of maintenance. In our tribal language, there is no word for maintenance.
Go ahead and blame the white man.
Its even beyond the bold.
Listen: How long after Roman colonization do you think it took Britain (and Germania which wasnt colonized as completely or in the same way) to come anywhere close to the splendor and efficiency of Rome?
That's right, over a thousand years.
Now before you jump to say I am saying it will take us a thousand years, no. I am not saying that. I am just dropping a nugget for thought. I will address this in detail.
benalvino3: Because whichever you pick, Nigeria is less developed.
If you have to go then go, if you don't have to go through history then don't go. But you are never with answers and your victim cards will not work. No black nation is developed, history is not the issue. Stop this your self-hating nonsense because it holds our race back.
If you ask me the same question, my answer will be short and simple: people like you who do nothing but cry about and blame others.
Thats an ignorant answer. I will lecture you. I will try. The answer is more complex. Don't worry I will give you an Idiot's guide.
You are confusing size with health. A giant can still have weak knees.
China is powerful because of scale and manufacturing.
China is brittle because its growth model depends heavily on exports, state support, debt, overcapacity, and a collapsing property sector.
That is not a contradiction. That is nuanc.
The Iran war is affecting them more than it's affecting the United States since their economy is export-based.
What growth model does not have export at its root? Looks to me that you are just desperate to imagine your God Trump-Christ is doing well as against China.
raumdeuter: He was negotiating with China and China is negotiating too. Threats are part of negotiations
The whole world rolls out their red carpet for Trump from UK to China not when US presidents were shoved to back of th room or going around on apology tours all over the world
When were US presidents shoved to the back of rooms? Are you drunk?
And which president doesnt have red carpets rolled out for them?
raumdeuter: From years of seeing my post, you should know that I am not scared to stand on my own and post my opinion, I rarely follow the crowd. If you will describe me I am sure that is how you will
Unlike deepsight who is a symbol of obeisance, servitude, and likes to conform
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Conform indeed.
Listen, you have been absent without leave. I need my laundry done and my cars washed. Skip to it, on pain of a hundred strong lashes of a bull whip.
raumdeuter: When someone is dedicated to your death and eradication, the logical thing is to ensure they dont get the means to achieve their aim
The same reason Egypt police their border against Gaza
I ask why is Egypt not allowing Gazans to come for employment or even healthcare yet Egypt does not get the criticism
It is a vicious cycle. If you cage, imprison, oppress and occupy the land of a people, you have enslaved them. If you have enslaved them, they will continuously fight for their freedom.
Occupied peoples have the right to resist occupation.
And when they fight for freedom, you then call them terrorists and say you have a right to suppress them and cage them.
This will go on forever if you dont free them.
It was the same in South Africa AND that is exactly why that country has a historic empathetic and psychological bond with Palestine.
Needless to say, the oppressors, including the USA and Britain, branded the ANC and Mandela terrorists. Sound familiar?
raumdeuter: Gazans come to Israel daily to work, Gazans come into Israel for healthcare. Egypt does not even allow them that.
The desire of Gazans that are taken for healthcare and employment is to kill the Israelis, So Israel should open their country to people whose desire is to eradicate them from the map
I said why must they block them from access to the world by even the sea, which is not owned by Israel? Why must they block their efforts at international recognition and sovereignty?
Why must they police what and who goes in and out of Gaza, are they slaves? Why are they expanding settlements in the West Bank?
So long as all this continues, Israel will never know peace. Free those people, period. They are not your slaves.
raumdeuter: Egypt has a blockade on Gaza but that one no concern you. Its Israel who lets them come in to work, get healthcare that should open their country so they can carry out their murderous intents
They are free not to open their country but why lock them in even by the sea? Does Egypt do that? Nope. Why steal their land in the West Bank and kill them in the West Bank and practice apartheid against them there? Does Egypt do that? Nope.
Why resist every effort they make to be internationally recognized and sovereign? Are they slaves? Does Egypt do that? Nope.
Try and think through what you post for even a nano second abeg.
benalvino3: China has leverage, yes. They are a big player but leverage is not the same thing as strength. They are weak.
China can pressure America through rare earths and supply chains I give you thst, but its own economy is struggling with a property crisis, weak consumer demand, deflation pressure, and overcapacity.
China GDP per capita is still around $15k while America’s is above $90k. Ain't that a britch?
Even BYD, which you like to hype, is not proof China is cruising. They are in financial collapse, they are is huge, but its recent profits dropped sharply and China domestic car demand has been weak. Exports are helping because domestic demand is not strong enough.
So no, negotiation with China is not begging. It is normal power politics between two economies that both need something from each other.
benalvino3: She rejecting race-based grievance politics and identity essential ism you people like and does not believe being black obligates a particular political outlook is not misalignment.
She and budaatum holds the view that Britain is among the least racist countries, she agrees with me, raumdeuter, Basilico and pretty much any one on the right by emphasizing individual agency over your collective victimhood narratives.
Nobody here supports the senseless killing of innocent people, whether Palestinian, Israeli, Iranian, or anyone else.
But the problem is that people like you often define senseless killing only when Israel or the US acts.
When Hamas kills civilians, when Iran funds proxies, when rockets are fired at Israel, suddenly people start adding context and excuses.
I support Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran this will not change. You and I knows the bad guys.
The real issue is not whether ordinary Palestinians deserve dignity and safety. They do even if they are one of the worst people on this earth who have a party anytime people die in great numbers in the west.
The issue is that Palestinian leadership and political culture have repeatedly been shaped by rejectionism, terrorism, martyrdom ideology, and refusal to accept Israel’s existence.
So yes, Israel has the right to secure itself, control threats on its borders, and demand that any future Palestinian authority be demilitarized and reformed.
But pretending Israel is just randomly killing innocent people for fun is a lie, an ugly lie.
Palestinian state cannot exist in its current ideological form as a militarized rejectionist project.
If there is ever to be a Palestinian state, it must be demilitarized, deradicalized, and built around coexistence rather than the destruction of Israel.
If you disagree to this you will be here crying in the next 10 years when Gazans go into Israel and try to kill every Jews they can find again because they built one or two tunnels
If you cannot be sincere with what is at the root at this issue, you will just write endless meaningless epistles. Is Israel free and sovereign? Yes. Is Palestine free and sovereign? No. Who is holding and caging and occupying Palestine and stealing land in the West Bank as well as killing people there and practicing apartheid there?
If you cannot answer this with sincerity, no amount of "Israel has a right to defend itself" will mean anything. It doesn't make sense crying about a right to defend yourself against people you have caged and whose land you are illegally occupying. Against people who you deny the freedom and sovereignty you enjoy.
The plain truth is that you will neither rest nor know peace until you free those people.
raumdeuter: Shows how the world now respects the US president. The countries that matter in the world now know American leadership is back. No longer on apology tours
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
You are on something I swear!
For heavens sake, this was the man threatening China with jumping tariffs how long ago and he has gone to bend the knee after seeing what stern stuff they are made of!
American leadership is back indeed, maybe you didnt hear how Xi ignored calls from Trump.
You cant be serious. NO ONE TAKES AMERICA SERIOUSLY UNDER TRUMP - NO ONE.
IjeBos: You could show him an email that says "we are engaged in systematic racism" and he will find someway to say it isn't. He doesn't come at this in good faith or with any intellectual honesty.
We are living in a time where systematic racism is out in the open. From Hegeseth firing predominately black people To DOGE cutting programs because of black keywords To ICE stopping black and brown people because they happen to be at Home Depot (with the Supreme Court imprimatur). To States breaking up minority/black districts. If one can't see it in plain sight, they don't want to see it.
And that's not the far-reaching stuff like disparities of who gets arrested, trial outcomes or prison sentences, sentencing, etc. or even disparities on laws based on type of drugs you're caught with.
In my write up, I showed precisely how the past affects today and gave practical examples of policies. But its alright. I understand that you were so hurt you have decided to stick to that as your permanent response to everything. I wish you speedy recovery.