I know which of these is more important. Do you? Too many people seem to get their takes from Ryan Grim.

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    Yes and plenty of them fled to the US etc too and were a plague on Latin America. Same would happen with the IDF. Same will happen with the Azov guys (alrdy has a bit in Syria).

    In the broader context of the US downsizing its worldwide ambitions to smaller goals like establishing Israel, El Salvador, Ecuador, Somalia, the end is in sight within a lifetime. I’m not saying anything will be easy. The overarching point is that Israel cannot operate independently of US and European support without becoming a fundamentally different kind of state. There is no alternative to NATO with global military logistics and financial power, based in all of these entangled geopolitical interests. Some countries have more normal hobbies than that, and knowing none of them have a chance to reestablish that system makes mutual development the only path which makes sense. You can try to be like Modi or Erdogan but man is it fucking embarrassing. The old subimperialists will probably be the smaller antagonists of the Long Chinese Millenium for sure. I just think we are creaking along towards Chinese space station future, they’re not going to nuke Gaza, people should get ready to win IMO

    It is everyone’s responsibility to win as hard as possible. Every iota of extra winning multiplies into thousands of lifetimes worth of improvements for others. We are basically primordial bugs who don’t know their travails are delaying the development of the squirrel which has a lot more fun stuff going on, dreaming about nuts, acquiring and losing nuts. The preoccupation with nuts delaying the ultimate activity of being on computer. Who knows what awaits us

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      The overarching point is that Israel cannot operate independently of US and European support without becoming a fundamentally different kind of state.

      Agreed.

      You can try to be like Modi or Erdogan

      This is the most cursed option, so most likely to happen! /s

      they’re not going to nuke Gaza

      Oh no no, I was never implying that. I would feel like they would use it only if they were in a survival scenario against Iran. That’s pretty much what I meant, as long as they exist they will be used to pursue the goals of the United States. Despite the downsizing, the U.S still needs to retain spheres of influence and the Middle East is a gate to Africa, Europe, Russia and Asia. I agree with the Chinese century in space as well. When The Entity does collapse though, it won’t be pretty. Nukes may be a part of that.

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        Sorry for the unclear hyperbole, considering turning the entire place into a firestorm was entirely possible if unfeasible, so there is no reason to read it as hyperbole. I understood what you + others meant about nuking the region in the end.