There's no other country that can be used to justify the current rate or expansion of spending US military assets, especially naval assets.
They aren't comparable to Yemeni Hezbollah, at least in the context of domestic politics. Hezbollah is political party sometimes described as a "state within a state". Ansarallah is the state, regardless of who recognizes them. They control the parts of Yemen where 80% of the population lives.
I mean...
Electoralism? In the news mega?
Most bizzaro timeline is Syria and Israel vs Shia and Christian militias while the Lebanese Armed Forces scratch their asses and Lebanese Sunnis frankly do I don't know what. It would be a real test for the idea of Lebanese nationalism.
To be fair through, i24 isn't exactly the most reliable Israeli news source. I wouldn't post the story here right now without a better source, but it seems like talks are ongoing between Syria, Israeli, and the US.
I saw someone post coverage from i24 (Israel news channel, not the most reliable) that I believe was saying Syria was discussing giving Israel 1/3rd of Golan and leasing another 1/3rd for 25 years in return for Israel helping Syria take Tripoli and other parts or Northern Lebanon.
Did he have an opinion how how the Lebanese military would react/side with?
If elections aren't banned or rigged it means that Democrats would actually have to do something. It's easier for liberals to imagine the end of democracy than it is for them to imagine Democrats actually doing something positive.
The DRC-Rwanda deal will also help the US government and American companies gain access to critical minerals like tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper and lithium needed for much of the world’s technology at a time when the US and China are actively competing for influence in Africa.
Ahead of the signing on Friday, US President Donald Trump said, “We’re getting, for the United States, a lot of the mineral rights from the Congo as part of it. They’re so honoured to be here. They never thought they’d be coming.”
Now US tech companies can buy the rare earth minerals they were already buying illegally from Rwanda without the extra legal risk.
Let us all reflect and embrace the posting that got us here on this special day.
EDIT: Apparently the prior portrait was not of Nat Turner, despite what Google and some other websites said.
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In a vacuum, I would expect the Israelis to back the Druze in Syria. They have worked very hard to create a wedge in Golan by building up a relationship with the Druze, similar to what they have with the Kurds, and essentially labelling themselves basically as defenders of the Druze.
Two complicating factors are unclear to me. The first is if Israel can sustain another new front, either directly or through proxy, based on purely logistical contraints. It seems like no one in the West is going to turn the weapons spigot off, but the question is what do they even have to work with if they keep the Gaza bombardment up or even restart one of the other fronts? That's just from a proxy war/air-support perspective. There's even more logistical issues if they try to actually put troops deeper into Syria (I think that's unlikely).
The second thing is what the Arab/Turkish comprador states will do. I suspect the answer to that is they will be much more harsh in their response to Israel over fighting HTS than they will over anything they have done in Palestine.