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2022-03-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel is a close ally of the US, yet has ~~not~~ supported the US over Ukraine.

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Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-04 01:03|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Israel sold weapons to the Ukraine Nazis. That doesn't sound like something a close ally would do. That doesn't sound like anything a Jewish government would do, either.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-04 07:02|| 2022-03-04 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 So Israel won't join in sanctions.
Neither will about 5 billion people around the world who will be delighted to trade for Russian oil, and gas, and wheat, and gold, and potash palladium nickel alumina titanium coal etc

How do they love thee, Russia? Let us count the ways:
China - that's 1.4 billion people
India - another 1.3 billion people
Turkey - add another 82 million pop.
Brazil - gee they're pretty big: 213 million pop.
Egypt - wow, over 106 million pop.
Iran - now buying Russian arms thanks to Joe "Help the Iranians!" Bidet - add another 86 million pop.
Indonesia - leapin' lizards! 275 million pop.
South Africa - with much gratitude for support during the anti-apartheid struggle, 57 million pop.
Uganda - along with Iran, one of many African customers for tens of billions in Russian arms exports 44 million pop.
... the rest of the African arms importing nations: 1 billion pop.

Supporting the US sanctions are maybe 1 billion people tops
Vs. 5 billion sitting it out.

Don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the 21st century wind blows

Posted by Heriberto Thusoper3297 2022-03-04 07:59|| 2022-03-04 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Sanctions are Washington's knee-jerk response to almost every situation. It's healthy for them to see it not working.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-04 08:03|| 2022-03-04 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Why would Israel support the US over this? Not in their sphere of influence except for maybe Russia's ties with Iran and the Ukrainian war won't effect that.

Not their circus, not their monkeys.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-04 08:08|| 2022-03-04 08:08|| Front Page Top

#5 "South African gratitude"

WTF....? They are communists. It's wat they do.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-04 08:10|| 2022-03-04 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Now the ruble's backed by gold - whose dollar-denominated price is rising
And oil - whose dollar-denominated price is soaring.
As is the dollar price of every other commodity that Russia's rolling in.

But if these were priced in gold or another currency tied to a basket of commodities, they would NOT be soaring. As Joe Bidet likes to gargle mumble slosh, "Go get 'em!"

Can you say, "stagflation"? I knew you could.

Posted by Econ101forMorons 2022-03-04 08:16|| 2022-03-04 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 "except for maybe Russia's ties with Iran"

And US ties with Iran. As Biden said, "Help the Iranians!"

Join with the US and support Russian arms sales to Iran!
All the way with JCPOA!

Posted by Harry Thud6816 2022-03-04 08:21|| 2022-03-04 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 The US currently has more sanctions on the US energy industry than they do on the Russian one. And the Putinistas still bitch about it.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-04 08:40|| 2022-03-04 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 ¿Qué son 'las Putinistas'? Por o contra?

Posted by CommandanteZero 2022-03-04 08:47|| 2022-03-04 08:47|| Front Page Top

#10 A comment from another thread here:

As of 0842hrs today it was trading for 0.0093 against the $US? So its cheaper to burn it in a fireplace to warm a room than it is to buy the firewood.

I'd be really careful about pointing out how invincible "backed by gold" makes your currency. The gold freaks from Zero Hedge will stop by your home to tonsure you and Ron Paul will stop coming to your sister's "sporting house."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-04 08:58|| 2022-03-04 08:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Anyone who hasn't loaded up his portfolio with commodities and precious metals including but not limited to gold is a fool. The kind of sucker who gets his investment advice from social media sites with anonymous morons sporting Hollywood movie avatars touting meme stocks

Posted by Econ101forMorons 2022-03-04 09:12|| 2022-03-04 09:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Nazis:

Orthodox Jewish father and son pick up arms, ready to defend their Ukraine hometown

Lots of good stuff in the article. I’m going to post is separately.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-04 09:51|| 2022-03-04 09:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Because Israel is not stupid enough to enter a tussle over something as 'someone-else's-problem' as European interests.

And what exactly would madam have them do? Like spout rhetoric about 'evil russians'? Break off ties with them? And then they'll what... let Iran have it's nukes? Let Paleostinians propagandize and encroach on Israeli land? How would that work, one standard for a European interest another for themselves?

Oh! Amanpour! Iranian! So that's how it works... silly moi.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-04 10:29|| 2022-03-04 10:29|| Front Page Top

#14 US pols very very 'disappointed' with Israel.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-04 10:30|| 2022-03-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Insufferable Jooos will NOT support Biden's sanctions against Putin. Gee....I can't possibly imagine whey they (insufferable Jooos) are not fully on board.

MAIL - Biden's nuclear negotiator offers to LIFT Iran's sanctions and remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp from terror list in exchange for signing new deal

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-04 10:51|| 2022-03-04 10:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Plus they're helping the Iranians buy weapons from the Rooskies

Unfuckingbelievable

Posted by Econ101forMorons 2022-03-04 10:56|| 2022-03-04 10:56|| Front Page Top

#17 They are digging up these fossils from the late 90s and early 2000s to target that group old enough to remember The Soviet Union and Red Scare, yet young enough to influence newer generations.

This is also to rally the anti-Israel groups while shaming those who both support Ukraine and Israel.

Largest propaganda effort in history, already built and activated by two years of covid action, and should be treated as such; they have to get those influencers on board to convince the generations of Draft Age kids that war is no longer a bad-wrong craving of red necks but touts cool freedom loving neat-o; its the act where they try to re-define what Rally 'Round the Flag means.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-04 11:50|| 2022-03-04 11:50|| Front Page Top

#18 Ruh-roh. Rye, Rorge!

CHINA MEDIA GOADS RUSSIA TO USE CIPS OVER SWIFT
BY JEFF PAO
Asia Times
March 1, 2022

Russia can use China’s Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) for its international trade after its major banks were removed from the US dollar-based SWIFT payment system in response to the Ukraine war, according to Chinese state media reports.

Several Chinese researchers were quoted by Xinhua and the Communist Youth League Central Committee’s website as saying Russia would not be seriously hurt by the Western world’s SWIFT ban as it had developed its own payment system – the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS) – since the Crimea crisis in 2014.

They said CIPS together with SPFS would continue to grow and become an important global interbank payment system.

Some Chinese commentators speculated Russia would be able to survive the recent round of sanctions imposed by the West over the Ukraine issue as it was not holding a lot of US dollar assets, but mainly gold, oil and foreign currency.

European countries would also be hit by the SWIFT ban as the cost for them to buy Russia’s energy would increase, they said.

Posted by Speck Gleaque5039 2022-03-04 12:08|| 2022-03-04 12:08|| Front Page Top

#19 "US THREATENS India with SANCTIONS as the Globalist Order CRUMBLES!!!" Swift weaponized so Alternates actively searched to prevent US and EU control of countries using swift.80% of the worlds population is bucking globalist efforts to control them.

Posted by Dale 2022-03-04 13:15|| 2022-03-04 13:15|| Front Page Top

#20 At least we still have Wyoming and its coal (BTU)
💰💰💰

Posted by Econ101forMorons 2022-03-04 13:29|| 2022-03-04 13:29|| Front Page Top

#21 Ctrl + X "COVID"
Ctrl + V "Ukraine"

Posted by Econ101forMorons 2022-03-04 13:31|| 2022-03-04 13:31|| Front Page Top

#22

I know it sounds crazy, but could this be a contributing factor ?

PJ - Group Biden Removed from the Terror List Hopes That, Allah Willing, Its Missiles Will Soon Reach New York

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-04 14:58|| 2022-03-04 14:58|| Front Page Top

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