Nonetheless, kudos to Germany and Sweden, IMO she and whoever ran Sweden showed (relatively at least) good leadership on this issue.
(that we know of)
To weaken Assad,
which would be good.
to take over Syria, to isolate Lebanon,
Was Germany going to do that?
to eliminate the threat of a retaliating all out Shiite uprising over the entire Middle East, to attack an isolated Iran.
huh?
Hamas and Hezbollah are a product of Israeli invasion and occupation.
IIUC, Hezbollah are, while Hamas was useful to Israel in dividing Fatah/PLO, and on Putin's 71st birthday, giving Netanyahu the excuse he needed to do what he's been doing in Gaza.
The goals of Hamas are national goals, not religious goals.
Perhaps.
FWIW,
(my bold)
Hamas is an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلامية or Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement". This acronym, HMS, was glossed in the 1988 Hamas Covenant[66] by the Arabic word ḥamās (حماس) which itself means "zeal", "strength", or "bravery".[67]
They have nothing to do with Al-Quaeda or ISIS. Ironically Israel has treated ISIS fighters in Syria and Israeli weapons made it into ISIS camps. Now Israeli is arming and protecting lowlife criminals in Gaza with links to ISIS to plunder UN aid convoys.
Divide and rule: yep, that sounds like something Israel would do.
Meanwhile Iran wasn’t seeking a nuke since 2003 as has been maintained by the US intelligence, in particular CIA well into this year
Perhaps.
I still don't trust them anymore than the US.
Instead Iran had negotiated the JCPOA with Obamas government and upheld it until Trump broke it, with the EU allies following suit to the US. Still Iran was seeking to get back to diplomacy even as Israel is now bombing Iran. But evidently neither Israel nor the US can ever be trusted with diplomacy. They will just turn around and bomb you whenever they feel like it.
Hasanabi rules:
I'm not sure.
The anarchist part of me says leave Iran alone, let Israel deal with them, and if Israel doesn't, but instead gives up its land to Palestinians and tries to go back to Europe or the parts of the Middle East they left, that might be interesting.
To be fair to Trump, he hasn't invaded Iran, like Dubya and Papa Bush invaded Iraq: he more like Clinton in that he lobs some missiles to get people minds off of how he's fouling things up otherwise in the US and world.
Do you think this theocracy, this mullahchy, is better than the Shah?
As bad as he was—and he was bad—at least he didn't try to get nukes.
Had Saddam stayed out of Kuwait, he might still be around.
My sympathies for any of these regimes is limited.
(Modern) Israel exists because most of Europe was an antisemitic shithole, and that includes Russia and the UK; guys like Netanyahu are a product of this, and Hamas are a bunch of jihadi punks who have been used by both Iran and Israel.
Where did the boy get the knife: from a store or his parents' kitchen?
and those Russians who were injured, maimed, or died for invading Ukraine, and occupying parts of it, were injured, maimed, or died for nothing.
Perhaps, insofar that France and UK has a smaller nuclear arsenal than either US or Russia; though 3¼ years into the invasion of Ukraine (not counting 2014 to 2022), I doubt Russia has 25% of the country.
The invasion of Ukraine might have constituted/might constitute a very large mal-investment of Russian capital with possible significant effects on the Russian banking system—it's just a thought.
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The ROI is not United Kingdom.
Austria is not Germany.
Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are separate countries;
as are Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka;
as are a number of Arab-speaking countries;
and ROC is not PRC.
The PRC is a Borg ship trying to assimilate the ROC, but the ROC has resisted assimilation for over 75 years.