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iamoyindamola:

I agree they are wicked that's why the Indians are better than us
I also know someone with this cos issue, the highest hour she's gotten is 5hrs and shifting job she doesn't have a permanent job
She is stuck for 2 years doing on and off job, the only good thing is it was her mom's sister that helped her and she's staying with them
But she's still paying them back the £10k
I feel people know what they are going into and nobody forced them, all of them is trying to survive

No let anybody whyne you.
Indians do it too.

-Lord

Regex:


What is the agreement?

We'll find out later today.

-Lord

Waited years, but finally Russia and Iran put pen to paper today.
Fingers crossed the agreement is worth the hype.

-Lord

WrriterNg:
⚡Turkish Airlines says it will not transport Israeli or Iranian citizens to Syria following a decision by Syrian authorities.

Turkish-puppet HtS turning old foes into frenemies.

Satanyahu and Ayatollah would soon exchange kippah and turban. 😊

-Lord

OkpaNsukkaisBae:


Hamas didn't renege

Sections of the Trump istration are trying to craft an elaborate ruse to have a December ceasefire redux.
Trump and Biden get their ceasefire.
Then a few weeks after Trump's inauguration, they resume and Trump will only be able to complain privately.

It worked with Biden.
We'll see if it repeats with Trump.

-Lord

WrriterNg:



😁😁😁

E just be like say na setup.

Russia, Iran & Assad just go rest, make Israel and US continue to dey destroy them.

Iran is not resting sef.
They started killing HtS terrorists via ambushes.

Beneath the surface, Israel, the West, and the Gulf (bar Qatar) are spooked by Turkey and its band of terrorists.

If you're having trouble carrying a bag, you don't add to the load.

Turkey is a thorn in Europe - Greece and Cyprus.
In Central Asia - Azerbaijan and its paramilitary terrorist force of Turkic Asians (that region is poor and mercenaries are cheap from Uzbeks to Uighurs.
In Africa - Libya, Sudan, and Somalia to a degree.
Now you add Syria to their sphere of influence with their central location.

Plus, they're in NATO and are integrated into the Western security network.
Of course, things would be relatively smooth when interests align as with Assad. But what happens when interests diverge.
They can be brought to heel, but they can also deal painful blows.

HtS are terrorists so I don't mind Israel smoking them.
On HtS/Turkey, Iran and Israel share an objective to thin the herd.

-Lord

TemporaryHansel:




Is there a way I can block ballz so that I won't be seeing his posts? They're beginning to look irritating and retarded.
No difference between him and those terrorists with his obsession for violence.

Sadly, no.

We all hope the ceasefire holds.
The carnage was excessive.

-Lord

Ballzproblemm:
Palestinians are now celebrating their victory,I thought there was genocide,make una choose side now .

😂

Sunday na Ceasefire Day! 🎉🍾🥂🎈

You go lick sweet? Mk we waybill your own.

-Lord

RodgersAkpafu:


Investment Banks in Britain recruit directly from my alma mater every year
That's talent
Many of us are out here doing our own bit in different fields of endeavors, and are very good, making their mark out there
And for every race of people, its a normal distribution curve
The 10% or what I always like to call the top decile, putting the work and being the "reps" of each group

I'm glad you acknowledged that the cultural shift definitely produce good outcomes
Unfortunately the African elite are fine with the status quo and will do all it takes to not promote mass, qualitative education for its teeming populace
The Asians on the other hand culturally prioritise these things, even to the detriment of their social skills and emotional needs..
That's why over the last three decades, Asian suicides top Africa own by a long shot

Like u said
What happens in the future is left to be seen

An investment bank doing bend-down-select is different from Goldman Sachs spending $7B and employing tens of thousands directly and through its GCCs in India.
India's population is 1.4B. Asia's is 5B. All of Africa is 1.5B.
On top of that, a redditor compiled the per capita representation of races at elite colleges in the US.
https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/qyvf3m/racial_preferences_at_elite_american_universities/

It's not even close.
You're trying to compare a local supplier of a bodega to a national supplier of Walmart.
We're operating at different wavelengths.

US engineering graduates: 70,000 per year. India: 350,000. China: 600,000.
That's why China can decide to create three new Starlink competitors concurrently and it's a regular Tuesday.
You become an adjunct professor, become a VP, rise to Principal SWE, start a practice, and now you feel your pond is the Pacific.

Asians are not competing with Blacks.
We might aspire to. But there's an insane existing talent gap that make Asians a no-brainer for talent acquisition.
Top 15% of India matches Nigeria's entire population. It'll amount to fiduciary negligence to skip that huge talent pool to wade in a puddle.

Cognizant has 336,300 employees.
Founded in India. Headquartered in New Jersey.
It's a trojan horse for Indians to enter the NA workforce. One of the largest beneficiaries of H1Bs.
That's talent. Put differently, that's an abundance of talent that we simply cannot match.

There is no Wakanda of black geniuses that the West, Gulf, and hopefully in the future SE Asia are ignoring because of deep-seated biases.
Do we have a smattering of exceptional talent? Yes.
But it's a drop in the ocean and has no material effect on Asia's status as the #1 repository of talent.

-Lord

RodgersAkpafu:


First bolded is not true
It is a primary function of priorities
That's what determined these group outcomes
The Asian guy doesn't see himself from an early age in rap videos or in the NBA or things like that
What is being fed to him, (stereotypically) and the cultural priorities are is the "need pipeline"
The black man is opposite.... our cultural priorities plus what is being fed to the kids from childhood is what is making them gravitate towards that "side of the fence"
Add irresponsible government that does not prioritise or invest in education....

It is true.
You're sharing reasons why it is our unfortunate reality and making a bold assertion that a culture shift will remedy the lopsidedness.
That's an hypothetical. A culture shift will absolutely have a positive effect. We see it in immigrant vs native black populations.
Would it level us up with the Asians who are overrepresented in the elite high schools and colleges, we'll never know.

Sadly, they need talent today.
Not just the West. The Gulf employs a lot of Nigerian doctors. If we had more exceptional talent to offer, they'll roll the red carpet.
Worst-case, if the influx is rattling natives, they'll flood Africa with outposts and campuses. Which will collectively be sort of a sieve or talent pipeline.

-Lord

Regex:


I am not Iran lost much in this war. It depends on how you see it, I believe they are gearing up to getting that which they need. LordAdam16 what do you think?

I labelled Al Aqsa flood Iran's coming-out party.
I stand by that.

Anyone who thinks you can enter 21st century conflicts without staining your white watches too many Hollywood movies.

Iran had engaged in a number of recent conflicts, like the Iraq insurgency, the Syria war, the anti-ISIS campaign, and the Yemeni war.
They had built up a formidable Shia Crescent.
This was their first conflict with a proper peer power who had the unlimited backing of the US.

It was always going to be a costly endeavor.
I've said as much as events have transpired. That's expected.

The lessons from this War are invaluable.
To illustrate, Iran's ongoing exercises have prioritized air defense maneuvers with homegrown systems.
That used to be an after thought. They're also focusing a heck of a lot more on counter intelligence and SIGNIT.
Turkey is now a priority. No one has any illusions about the importance of the economy on political stability in light of the SAA's stunning collapse.

They're essentially fixing the blind spots they had that they could paper over when their opponents were rebels, terrorists, and ineffectual Arab militaries. In much the same way that Russia has revised its military doctrine many times over during the course of its SMO. From the use of combined arms brigades to all-domain drone warfare.
You can send your generals into undefended battle spaces when you fight truck-driving terrorists, it's a different ballgame when you're fighting a military with F-35s and NATO intelligence.

You can't buy or train experience.
You have to get in the thick of it. Explains why many are pressing on China to the action to boost preparedness.
What comes at the other end of this conflict is a beast with scars.
Iranian missiles fired from Yemen are still striking targets in Israel after the deployment of THAAD AD.

I don't consider Iran a loser in this War.
They had setbacks, but you don't deploy tanks and expect all of them to return to storage in perfect condition.
Syria is turning out to be a blessing in disguise.
Turkey will divert some of the attention and let them rapidly modernize their military and reform the Resistance.

We've been hearing lots of noise about Turkey. Yet the Kurds with 1/100000th of the IDF's capabilities is disciplining them right on their border.
Heck, even the Houthis have handled more adversity than the Turks. But I guess it's understandable that folks would have their own interpretation of events.

-Lord

Gerrard59:
Well, I am glad black people are not part of the debacle. If this expose would bring more opportunities towards our side, better. But shey the white man does not want us for historical reasons and the Chinese for Cold War reasons? Let him slug it out with dem Indians. I am just happy for the Chinese who developed their society and don't experience nonsense like this. If China too hard, enter Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea or Japan and live a comfortable life. In Vietnam, enter there and become a regional/country head of a major Chinese company. Damn! Those guys have it so good! Anytime I see a group of them, I can imagine how they revere their elites. Who wouldn't?

Don't believe that has anything to do with it.

India can produce all the talent they want without hiccups.
They have us beat by an insane margin.

Blacks simply cannot go pound for pound against the Asians in intelligence.
We are properly represented in sports and the military. Earned that.
Similarly, by merit, more Stuyvesant, Ivy, and Mag 7 spots will go to the Asians.

Traditionally, most Asian cultures enthusiastically defer to authority.
However, there's a reason the C reoriented from the Soviets to the West.
The West offered better economic promise which they were forced to take because they were on the clock.
Their gambit worked and they bought around half a century of stability.
Xi himself is on fraud watch

Happy new year!

-Lord

Ballzproblemm:
At least Biden didn't hide his distaste for Israel,Trump forced a deal that didn't favour Israel.

So much for "all hell shall break lose ", I'm hate watching this tenure .

All hell shall break loose was contingent on Hamas being the impediment to a deal.

Everyone knows that has not been the case for months.
Satanyahu has been holding sh*t up.

Anyway, it's just 6 weeks.
We've had a prior short-term deal.
We'll see if this sticks.

E get why we Trump.
Na d reason you dey see so.

-Lord

Ballzproblemm:
Trump worst snake than Biden

😂

Werey!

-Lord

Geovanni412:


You don't understand the full extent of the situation

Uyghur Muslims are not allowed to travel out of China

The ones that escape to turkey, are hunted down and returned to China for re-education

If they can't find you, they will look for your relatives and put them in re-education camps

The Chinese don't Bleep around with Muslims.

China has a very bloody history of rebellions.
Religion is a very potent catalyst of rebellions.
Ergo, China's hardline stance.

In 2018, China and the Holy See entered an agreement.
A number of Bishops in China flout that agreement and act shocked when they're placed under house arrest.

A lighthearted read on that region's history will reveal the real fears of the Chinese authorities.
Give the Uighurs an inch and they WILL rebel. It is not an if.
They have a mutual disdain of Han Chinese and in today's climate where the Turks are ascendant, many Uighurs have become plugged into the Wahhabi terror network, and the Ummah is wealthy and resourceful, they'll transform Xinjiang into Pashtun.

It's difficult for outsiders to understand the Uighur situation because there are few parallels elsewhere.
A potentially relatable situation will be Kashmir in India.
If India had the same means as China, they'll absolutely implement the same draconian measures.
That region of the planet has quite a few problematic minorities.
And when you have Pakistan and Afghanistan as cautionary tales, China is not in the mood for risky experiments.

Tajiks are also Muslims.
They're Iranian.
China treats them better than the Uighurs.
In fact, during the Xinjiang wars, Uighur rebels killed Tajik livestock. Uighurs are Sunni. Tajiks are Shia.

-Lord

OkpaNsukkaisBae:


Israel is obviously America's largest military outpost in the Middle East. Very reliable partner in check mating the Resistance led by Tehran. Any threat to Israel is a threat to US national security. Trump is obviously mocking/taunting Bibi, though it won't affect the bilateral relationship between Israel and America.

Yea.

Trump could also be throwing a bone to the nascent pro-Palestine "give him a chance" wing of his winning coalition.

Still, on face value, he publicized criticism of Netanyahu on Iran.
That's very specific.
All POTUSes reaching back to Carter draw the line at a hot war with Iran.
It's widely known that Iran is the last piece on the MENA chessboard to take out.

It stands to reason that he is under immense pressure to cross the Rubicon and he is far from pleased.
Other POTUSes could punt the Iran question and focus on the others like Libya, Syria, Iraq.
There's only Iran now and there's appetite for the gambit within neocon circles across the aisle.

We'll see how long he is able to hold out.
Or if Jan 17 gives him an out.

-Lord

https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/8315896/trump-shares-jeffrey-sachs-video#133700434

Cold war brewing between Trump & Bibi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUGiOHG_kEU

Trump has a love-hate relationship with Bibi.
Trump soured on Bibi after 2020.
He had his suspicions prior to his first term, as you'd glean from the interview, but things came to a head in 2021.

Neither Trump nor Biden want to deal with Satanyahu.
He is a nasty piece of work.
But America has an iron-clad commitment to Israel, and Satanyahu is the hold-your-nose point man they have to sit across from.

The latest spat likely has to do with Bibi wanting something from Trump, Trump pushing back and Bibi giving the impression that he'll push through for it anyway.
Biden will disparage Bibi to confidants and possibly slow walk a delivery.
Trump will disparage Bibi to confidants, then do something like this.

-Lord

WrriterNg:
In general, the sooner the political leadership of Russia, China, Belarus, Iran and the DPRK understands that they need a full-fledged military alliance with mutual security guarantees, the better. Because for now everyone wants to negotiate with the hegemon alone, hoping to bounce back and shift the blame to others. It won’t work, because Washington will eat everyone one by one, or at least create insurmountable problems for economic development in the long term.

For now, only Pyongyang understands the need for anti-American bloc building, while the rest are not inclined to force events and collectively counteract threats to the Eurasian space. This means that in the near future, either unipolar hegemony will return, or a consolidation of forces will begin aimed at neutralizing the threats emanating from the new American istration.

This is a brilliant submission by Pilko.
But I find that a lot of Axis scholars tend to underestimate the inertia of peacetime geopolitics.

Axis Powers recognize the dangers.
They have as close to a "military alliance with mutual security agreements" as is possible without an impending declaration of war.
Russia and Belarus are ed at the hip.
China and DPRK are ed at the hip.
DPRK and Russia entered an alliance.
Syria was the glue that held Russia and Iran together. Without Bashar, they're a few days away from g the dotted lines on a military alliance that has informally existed.

Essentially, the mesh of relations make this quite an elaborate entente of like-minded Powers in close proximity.

What Pilko clamors for requires a lot of political sacrifice. A formal full-fledged NATO-like alliance between Russia + China + Iran + Belarus + North Korea will screw with the non-Eurasian relationships of each signatory. The military gains would be immense as they can start integrating their capabilities in earnest. But America will leap at the opportunity to call it the 1884 Berlin Conference of the 21st century. Where the Axis Powers are divvying up the rest of world. And many in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, Africa; literally everywhere will lap it up.

This in itself is not a deal breaker. But the move only makes sense if you're about to face off with the Hegemony in a hot war.

It does not appear that the Hegemony wants to take on the Axis collectively in a hot war.
They prefer localized infernos. The Levant for Iran. Eastern Europe and the Caucasus/Central Asia for Russia. And Taiwan + SE Asia like Myanmar for China.
This allows the US to retain its economic edge while embroiling rival Powers.

So I don't think it's a question of lack of recognition of the threat or hesitance to band together to face the threat.
It is nuanced. They may yet arrive at the point where they go, "f*ck it, let's formalize an alliance, and let the chips fall where they may"...
But it does not mean that the current approach is defective.
How do you reconcile a full-blown military alliance and economic progress that require trade with pensive non-Eurasians?
Russia has to sell its oil. China has to sell its cars. Iran needs non-Axis trade. Belarus and NK are in economic unions with Russia and China respectively, so their interests align with their primary partners.
In a war, this wouldn't matter. But we're in a twilight zone where you're effectively at war, but your populace demand peacetime explosive economic growth. Iran is the most susceptible and it's why they've essentially waited until Israel and the US publicly threatened to murder their leaders before g a comprehensive agreement that formally plugs them into the Axis lattice.

-Lord

WrriterNg:


I swear. They make really beautiful aircrafts.

But their paint job sucks. That's where US does a really good job.

I think it's a function of environmental influences.

To illustrate, Scandinavian (Northern Europe) design is generally flat, mundane, dour, and minimalistic.
In contrast, Western European visual style is the stark opposite.

A similar comparison would be the Persian Empire versus any of the Great South American Empires in Antiquity (Incas, Aztecs, Mayans).
The Persian Empire was richer, larger, more populous, more diverse. But the design DNA and aesthetic of the South American Empires are mesmerizing.

-Lord

BoldBrainz:


Russia and their sexy aircrafts .

Russian design language is underrated.

-Lord

It is surreal that the California Fires is projected to be the most destructive disaster in monetary in US history.

Worse than Katrina!
My heart goes out to every victim.

-Lord

Emekus92:
SILO S2 E9

I believe this is the best episode in this season so far at least we know something new from solo vault to The Safeguard something interesting is coming.

I believe Knox knows that Walk is the traitor

Easy!

Excellent episode.

-Lord

WriteerNg:
⚡Joe Biden, before his departure, will further limit the export of AI chips from Nvidia to prevent them from reaching Russia and China, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.

Only a small number of U.S. allies will retain unlimited access to American chips. This first group includes just 19 countries (see the map).

For the rest of the world, a limit will be imposed on how much computing power each country can obtain.

The strictest restrictions will apply to the third group of 20 countries, which includes Russia and China.

Exhibit #76352869 why a multipolar world is non-negotiable.

-Lord

Israeli TG claimed Israeli security sources are interpreting a 5.3 earthquake in Tabriz during Iran's ongoing exercises as a nuke test.

Maybe they're trying to get Trump to launch a preemptive strike with circumstantial evidence.

But if Iran has not acquired a nuke, they have themselves to blame.
The region is geologically active. Tremors and disturbances are regular occurrences.
It gives cover for testing.
It also creates a rich environment for deliberate mischaracterization.

-Lord

basilico:

Democrats gaslighting .
Musk bought the presidency with his $250 million. Trump spent $1.6B so he would not have won without Elon Kamala out raised Trump and spent $1.9 B with $1.5B spent in 3 months

Zuckerberg spends $400m in 2020 in favor of Biden. Yay!
Elon spends $250m to boost Trump's electoral chances. Evil billionaires!

-Lord

raumdeuter:


Most billionaires live in California and New York
Why have these Dem controlled states not done something about the Democrats?
Like Trump said in his debates vs Hillary, Democrats have no intention of doing anything but want to make it a campaign topic every election. They are so beholden to their billionaires donors that they have no intention of hurting them but always want to make a campaign point of it

Like Trump asked Clinton, you have been in office for so long why have you not done anything about it

When Democrat billionaires like Bloomberg donate 100m or Zuckerberg splurges 400m to throw an election for their guy, they cheer.
When Democrat billionaires do f*cked up sh*t like hoard water rights, the problem becomes conservatives justifying billionaires.

Shocking lack of ability.
These are Democrat billionaires. They helped Kamala outraise Trump. Do something about them.
Show us the error of our ways through action.
Confiscate their billions. And since it'll be a boon for the economy and is a morally standup thing to do, you'll be able to attract more walk-the-talk liberal billionaires. They'll relocate and hand you even more billions.

Win-win.

-Lord

cococandy:
When we talk about billionaires being evil and you guys praise them for being such wonderful people who worked so hard for all they have. Everyone who’s suffering under their hegemonic system is just jealous.

If you want to egg a democrat billionaire, have the floor.

Don't expand the target radius.

Democrats control near every lever of power in NY and California.
Washington approved a 1% wealth tax.
You can start a campaign to enact a combined 90% state income + wealth tax.
Nothing is stopping you? Should be an easy sell to your ideological soulmates.

You guys went after Trump and argued Mar-a-Lago is worth 18m.
You guys could go after Resnick.
No one will stop you guys.
I for one will cheer. Getting rich off water rights in a drought-prone region is bonkers.

Seriously, it's getting old.
California and New York have more billionaires than the bottom 30 states with billionaires combined.
If you guys hate billionaires so much, set the pace.
Confiscate their billions.

-Lord

Masterviolence:

c'mon what are you trying to do?

Don't you see how these fools lost their voices since the fire incident began?
Don't give them sleepless nights.

They've been trying to deflect to no avail.
All falling flat.

In 2025, the winning tradition of exposing the Hegemony as the emperor without clothes continues.

Folks who were floating wild stories of Russian soldiers stealing Ukrainian toilets are now demanding sympathy and nuance while simultaneously cheering the delivery of billions to Ukraine. Meanwhile, North Carolina is still in the shitter and there's no water to contain the most destructive wildfire in recent history in America's richest state.

-Lord

shoodboi2:


Wahala 😂😂😂

If this was Russia or China, we wouldn't hear the last of it. Their ers here would have brought the roof down. CNN and BBC and their other propaganda outlets would have gone full bonkers, telling us how China is this and Russia is that.

It's the US now, so no one is talking.

The fact that Canada and the EU had always believed they will never be victims of America's imperialism insofar as they "allied" with the US and did whatever the US wanted, is the funniest part of this clown show 🤡🤡

Our resident cretins are on an extended vacation. 🙂

Sad scenes.
Thankfully, casualty count has been low.
Hopefully, it stays that way.

This disaster does highlight a critical issue.
Imagine if the USD wasn't the global reserve currency.
All of these annual disasters--the hurricanes in Florida, fires in California, Tornados in Middle America.
They'd have had a more radical impact on their finances.
But since they can just print dollars, it doesn't matter what the losses amount to.
Why should only the Americans have that privilege?

Construction and habitation should have been banned in wide swathes of these disaster-prone areas.
But they build and build. In Florida right up to the coast line. In California, right up to the forests.
Then they incur billions of $ in damages.
Print money from thin air to rebuild. Reinsure, even though that's basically rent-seeking.
Then wave their hats around about muh hIgH GDP.

-Lord

Ibime:
I the purchase of Greenland (by economic agreement, not by foolish rabble rousing). The race for the arctic requires a strong representative of Western liberal ideals at the table. Norway and Denmark will get bullied up there by China and Russia, and are already being bullied. Let the strongest amongst us lead the pack. Infact they should just cut one small piece of Greenland (even if it's 10km squared) out for Yankee so Yankee can have legitimate rights to contest the North Pole. Right now China and Russia are staking claims and already infringing Norway and Denmarks EEA, and are drilling there already. China is far from North Pole but are claiming economic rights up there based on might and lies

Condominium is a fair compromise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium_(international_law)

In any case, the top Danish-speaking 1% in Greenland are about to get a heck of a lot richer.
Lobbying ain't cheap. US and Denmark are fat cats.

-Lord

By the way, and as a history lesson for the pro-Western 🤡 who think Trump is bluffing:

The US bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917.
There is precedence.

-Lord

Regex:


LordAdam16, Greenland is a done deal for America. Even if trump ends up not getting it, one thing is for sure, he will make it very independent from Denmark so that they can do whatever they want there.

Another likely scenario is Denmark might break free from the quagmire of Nato and seek help from Russia, all them more achieving what trump always wanted, the destruction of Nato.

I couldn't help but laugh as the likes of Estonia is paniking...😂 😂 hilarious. Poland will have to pipe down from making reckless threat to Russia, least it risk invasion from USA or the eventual Rus.

BTW I saw a map of recent Ukraine, and I could see that Poland, Romania and Hungary are influencing (military controlling) parts of Ukraine in the name of protecting it from Russia, my question is, isn't it the same thing Russia is doing or am I missing something?

The annexation moves are perennial in nature.
Trump may not get them, but he's teeing them up for a future POTUS and getting Americans used to the idea of restarting their imperialistic drive.

NATO will be fine.
US has completely infiltrated countries in their sphere of influence.
The European monarchs will be pissed and they'll their displeasure by cranking the shaft on geopolitical parallelism.
So strengthening developments like a European Army, more independent weapons programs like the two next-gen fighter jet programs they have currently, and trying to craft a more nuanced relationship with Asia.

The Europeans and particularly the Baltic dachshunds are stuck.
They'll have to twerk for someone.
It's either the US, Russia, or one of their fellow European states.
They've had their 2 (3?) decades honeymoon with the US.
Reality is hitting them like a sledgehammer now.

Even if they can divorce the US, they'll just be replacing them with the Brits, French, Germans or Italians.
That's not pretty. Because they'll get the worst of both worlds. The historical overbearing tendencies without the cha-ching as the European powers are poor shells of what they used to be.

Lastly, hypocrisy is endemic in geopolitics.
I think the development that Europe will find shocking is the disquieting silence of the American Liberal Left.
They saw warning signs when the Left forced Putin into a War no one wanted in Western Europe (save the clowns in London).
Now Trump is playing monopoly with their possessions and the Left is just... quiet.
Like Iran, the European establishment has tethered themselves to the US Liberal Left and their fortunes rise and fall with the Left.
Unlike Iran however, they have no backstop.

-Lord