What are you referring to? Yes we have. Sweden and Finland was the same country for most of history. The only reason we are seperate contries today is because Russia invaded Finland in 1809. We have never been enemies.

And how does Gaza treat Israel? The jihadist terrorist groups that rule Gaza launch 1000s of rockets at israeli cities and towns hoping to kill as many israelis as they can.

India is already a part of Quad (India, US, Aus, Japan), but the UK is missing from that. India is also running military exercises with some major western countries, but hasn’t signed any mutual defence pact. They won’t join an alliance that requires that anytime soon.

Brotherhood of steel

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We're about as far as we've been from a two state solution any time in at least the past 50 years.

Bibi accepting extremists into his coalition to avoid corruption charges, Abbas likely dying of old age soon without any successor, and Hamas increasingly having a presence in the West Bank. Good fucking luck, Blinken

You tax the rich more and stop putting it on the working class. The money is there, they’re just stealing it from the wrong people.

This is option is highly unpopular both in Palestine and in Israel.

It's a shame that armoured ambulances need to exist. But that's what happens when your opponent does warcrimes.

Sounds fair, but only if the Arab countries would compensate all the displaced Mizrachi Jews with cash too. No need for the right to visit the ancestral home, because Israel is their ancestral home.

Nah, Sweden is essential to have from the Finnish point of view, not just a nice to have. Sweden makes logistics way easier, has a large manpower reserve of fit to serve who could be trained fairly easily in the event of war, is able to manufacture arms and resupply units, has a locally very powerful navy and air force (their army isn't bad either, just lacks a little manpower since they did away with conscription) with capabilities that are quite lacking with their neighbors, etc.

The Finnish and Swedish defense/armed forces have a very good working relationship. Perhaps Sweden isn't essential for NATO, but Sweden is essential for Finland regardless of if we are in NATO or not. Finland without Sweden also loses quite a bit of effectiveness and resilience in terms of providing security in the Baltic Sea area and around the Kola Peninsula.

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Armoured ambulances…

no it isn't. many russians started doing exactly this.

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Thought this was in Texas for a second

Better this than what China sent. It's good to see Israel having to be increasingly clear in picking sides.

And we are supposed to trust these people in a war…

Seems to me like people don't understand sanctions. Sanctions don't make it impossible for a country to obtain banned goods, they make it more expensive and time consuming.

There will always be a way around sanctions in a complex, global economy, but that doesn't mean they're not working.

so, you want China to start more openly helping Russia in their war effort?

seems like China could just drop their opposition to Russia using nuclear weapons. I'm sure Russia and China could set up a business deal to help upgrade Russia's nuclear arsenal, for the right price or raw material.

It's not so much "pro US" as "pro geopolitical stability". When nations just start annexing each other willy-nilly it becomes vastly more difficult to have stable world trade. The point is to demonstrate to anyone else with similar ideas (China) that they risk becoming an economic pariah on the world stage.

Currently India is undermining that object lesson and, instead, demonstrating that there will always be some nation willing to trade with the aggressor regardless of how heinous their crimes.

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> US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for Israel and the Palestinians to take "Urgent steps" to restore calm amid escalating violence.

> Mr Blinken said the US had "An enduring goal of Palestinians and Israelis enjoying equal measures of freedom, security, opportunity, justice and dignity", which he said could best be achieved by "Realising the vision of two states" - an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

> "That's why we're urging all sides now to take urgent steps to restore calm, to de-escalate - we want to make sure there's an environment in which we can... at some point create the conditions where we can start to restore a sense of security for Israelis and Palestinians alike."

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> US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for Israel and the Palestinians to take "Urgent steps" to restore calm amid escalating violence.

> Mr Blinken said the US had "An enduring goal of Palestinians and Israelis enjoying equal measures of freedom, security, opportunity, justice and dignity", which he said could best be achieved by "Realising the vision of two states" - an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

> "That's why we're urging all sides now to take urgent steps to restore calm, to de-escalate - we want to make sure there's an environment in which we can... at some point create the conditions where we can start to restore a sense of security for Israelis and Palestinians alike."

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Ok I assume the poster above was talking about the Boulder supermarket shooting. I think the point was that the media likes to divide the citizenry at the behest of the ruling class and the easiest way is to do so along ethnic lines. The media loves the narrative of racially-motivated conflict, with endless experts brought on to theorize about all that divides us and all our differences. When it turned out the shooter was an immigrant (and most of the victims were white iirc) the media toned down the coverage. It still lingered in the news cycle like usual, but I distinctly remember the constraints news shows had when discussing it. Completely different from the Charleston church shooting, where news stations ran extensive commentary around the racial motives and implications of the shooting.

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> Israel's Defense Ministry announced Monday that it had delivered three more armored ambulances to Ukraine's emergency services, given Russia's nearly year-long invasion of the country.

> Jerusalem has so far avoided providing direct military aid to Kyiv - including offensive arms or advanced defensive technology - since Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24 last year, in an attempt to avoid sparking a crisis with Moscow.

> Israel has provided defensive equipment to Ukraine's emergency and rescue forces, as well as tons of humanitarian aid and setting up a field hospital in western Ukraine for several weeks.

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