A business model that guarantees your employees poverty when working like that for their whole life, is not a business model. It's an exploitation model.

Look, you can fck whatever you want, but you don't need to tell us, ok?

RIP Warmbeer

Rank 165 of 167 democracy...

Rank 179 of 180 press freedom...

Let's book the tickets, honey. We are traveling to jail.

"This is my beach resort"

There is never 0 potential for escalation in a world political context. The question is how realistic it is...

And Pakistan and Iran are not really best buddies. There is also the potential of them attacking each other. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/18/world/iran-pakistan-attacks-tensions-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html

Furthermore: From a few weeks ago, we already know that it doesn't need Iran for India and Pakistan to attack each other... Last time, it did not end in a world war.

Us getting bogged down in Iran, however, presents other countries with their own windows of opportunity. And the biggest one is China invading Taiwan. China has been saber-rattling and openly planning an invasion of Taiwan, to be done at some point in the next few years. What better time to launch it than when the US has already been depleting their limited weapon stocks in Ukraine, and just got bogged down in Iran?

IMO, there is a lot of conjuntive in it.

For now, there were only bombs on nuclear facilities from the US side... No foot troops getting bogged down. Nothing getting bogged down for now...

You can always imagine how something could link to a word war. That would have already worked for Ukraine. That would have worked with Afghanistan as well.

The question is how realistic it is. I'm not a fan of painting the devil on the wall by declaring WW3 myself on Lemmy and saying goodbye to others....

When China invades Taiwan, that itself has a lot of potential for escalation. Bada Bing. Bada boom. Iran might be completely irrelevant in such a war.

Doesn't a world war require someone backing Iran? Or do you mean "the whole world vs Iran"?

Russia is busy, Hamas is not available, Hisbollah is not available, Syria is not interested anymore, Huthis will send a few rockets again...

Either we kill our species or we complete an almost impossible task...?

And that's a reason to give them to 193 other potential crazy leaders, too?

You want 195 countries to have nukes?

Then, it's just a matter of time until a bug in some software or a crazy leader that was or wasn't elected lead to the worst case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Aigun

My question what the actual goal was, is still open.

Israel had at least 4 days to plan how to react. And it seems, they just send them back to their countries: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clyg5x15n3zt

So, I don't know what the goal was..... The only thing they got in the end was media attention....

So they wanted media attention by manouvering themselves intentionally into a situation that could cause a diplomatic conflict between Israel and their countries? Or was such a diplomatic conflict the goal?

Shocking.... That outcome was totally unexpected!!!!!11111

In the end, they got what they wanted in the first place... Media attention... We are commenting under a news post.

He'd have a good time there with the others who got asylum... Assad, Yanukovych, Marsalek, ...

Edna, stop!

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Nah, I'm from Germany... The US would never.... You know.... We are friends.... //throws history book out of the window//.....