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Could be. He's clearly not smart enough to see that Roy Cohn was a brilliant villain whereas Habiba comports herself more like a clueless thug. For Trump, attitude is everything.

Or what? You're going to keep on making extraneous posts?

Missing the point I was making is useless. I guess I have to spell it out for you. Hawaiian's scenario was obviously a contrary to common sense fantasy. I treated it with all the seriousness it deserved. Which quantity is none.

Maybe you should bring your services to bear on other fairy tales. That, in fact, the Prince and the Princess didn't live happily ever after. It turns out he was gay and she had a drinking problem.

You don't think just by itself, his push to defang the Supreme Court is enough to qualify him as an extreme rightist? And given the composition of the current government, does it even matter whether that term corresponds to what Netanyahu may believe?

So you think the coda I appended to Hawaiian's fairy tale was not realistic?

If the consequences of Netanyahu's alleged criminality had something to do with Hamas, it wouldn't be nearly enough for the man who in so many ways is responsible for the Oct 7, massacre.

You forgot the part how, after his resignation, instead of battling the charges against him in court, he pleads guilty to corruption charges and meekly serves out his time in prison.

Guess who disagrees with you? A fella named Donald Trump: (note that Trump wrote this in all caps on Truth Social: "A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION. ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END,” he wrote. “EVEN EVENTS THAT ‘CROSS THE LINE’ MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD.” https://newrepublic.com/post/178217/trump-chilling-new-interpretation-total-immunity-cross-line

The problem is it kind of guts their dismissal of the characterization of Trump as a wannabe dictator.

Do you understand what this thread is about? According to Trump, Biden as President can't be jailed for anything he does in office even after he leaves office. Unless he's impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate on whatever charges are preferred against him. Only then can he be prosecuted and only for criminal acts corresponding to those charges.

Because posting about Liz Truss's support for selling China military equipment that could be used to invade Taiwan in a thread about Liz Truss's support for selling China military equipment that could be used to invade Taiwan is obsessive? By your standard, all relevant posts are signs of obsessiveness. Your comment is ridiculous.

Do you understand what dual use means? It describes something that has civilian use as as well military use.. What's the civilian use of mine removers for China? Has someone planted mines on Chinese territory?

So now it's fine for Iran to have done that but you also back Pakistan's statement? Squaring the circle much?

As JerryMahoney apparently believes, Verdict, shmerdict

Just for the record. It wasn't a treaty. Just an agreement. But it was an amazing achievement. The Obama Administration actually got Russia and China, among others, to subscribe to it.

So, it's okay for Pakistan to attack terrorists in Iran but not okay for Iran to attack terrorists in Pakistan?

If you can't see the contradiction between your support of Pakistan's statement on the one hand, and the right of Iran to retaliate against terrorists harbored in Pakistan on the other, I don't know what there is that I can say to help you understand. By the way, I'm not defending Iran's decision. I think it was stupid and self destructive. But that's a different question than whether or not it's legally justifiable.

What the ignoramus failed to note that there was an agreement in place to raise the level of funding to a certain level by, I believe, 2026

I'm sure you think that this statement is reconcilable with your support for the Pakistani statement. But how you got there is mysterious.

What do you expect Stoltenberg to say? Enrage Trump who may well be elected again?

Good to know that you condemn any nation should it retaliate against terrorists in any country where they are harbored. I'll keep this in mind for the future.

I'm not referring to Israel's current engagement. I am referring to its attacks on what it calls terrorist groups harbored in, say, Syria and Lebanon. You don't think a nation has the right to defend itself from attacks by retaliating against groups that find safe harbor in another nation?

Ah the irony. Why is it a violation of international law for Iran to attack terrorist groups in a sovereign nation but not for Israel to do the same against a sovereign nation?

What's not so much interesting as bizarre is that your obsession with Biden leads you to believe that because I'm not criticizing Biden here, then I should be elsewhere criticizing him and not criticizing Truss here. I don't see any reference to Biden in the subject line of this thread. Apparently, as is the way of obsessives, you do. For what it's worth, and to repair your ignorance, I have criticized Biden and the US very strongly in the appropriate threads, for their unmitigated support for Israel.