That’s the sad reality. Red lines keep getting pushed because confronting the reality of the situation is to painful of a bandage to rip off.

The cost of turning a blind eye to Israeli attacks and the effects of the war are still more enticing then the political disaster that declaring war would bring. Essentially it’s a sacrifice that Hezbollah are willing to make.

But at the same time, can you really fault them? A war would bring tens of thousand of dead at the minimum, along with untold damage to the civilian population. Even if Lebanon wins a brilliant victory against Israel and turns into a world hero, the long term ramifications would be disastrous and leave Lebanon in a weakened position for years of not decades.

The cost of war for a nation the size of Lebanon is often disastrous. They are not like Russia or the US who can afford to take the ramifications in step.

No one is excited to go to war. Telling your population that you are going to send their family members to their deaths is political suicide. No one is roaring to send themselves, their father, husband, brother, or sister to get shot and killed; even if it’s for a righteous cause.

It’s why offensive wars rarely work. The populace just gives up. While defensive wars are extremely easy to politically justify.

Lebanon is much more evenly matched with Israel, and might even succeed in a war. However, not without a heavy cost to civilian lives lost, military casualties, their economy, industry, tourism, and so on. It’ll be a lot harder for Hezbollah to justify why they got involved when Israeli cruise missiles rain down on Beirut; even if they are winning the war. Especially when they could instead continue their current course of action of preparing for conflict and stalling.

It’s not even the goofiest name a communist leader has had. Stalin quite literally changed his birth name to, “Joe Steel”, like he’s some sort of cosplaying superhero.

If we can have a Joe Steel, then we can absolutely have a Mr. Dong.

Oh we should absolutely refer to him as Mr. Dong now.

The British Empire played the long game with the Revolutionary War.

This is what entrance exams were made to do by design. This isn’t a bug.

They are entirely designed to lock out students who can’t afford to pay the absurd costs of test prep, while pushing through those students who’s parents could afford tutors that cost severs thousand dollars a month.

A prime example is the LSAT exam in the US for law school.

The exam is graded on a scale of 120-180, with a score above 175 being virtually unheard of due to the difficulty of the exam. Before, a good performance in undergrad combined with a score of at least 150-160 could guarantee you a spot in an top law school. However nowadays, scores have entered a horrific cycle of inflation that to get into any middling or top law school, a score in the high 170s is required, which is absurd. Anything below that is essentially a failure. A score that only 15-20 years ago would be the mark of a savant, has been relegated to only those who have the money to pay for test prep, and the privilege of the luxury of stress free time to study.

Of course; this works to the advantage of the top law schools as they get to isolate the wealthiest for admission, but how many have been locked out of a good law education due to their life circumstances?

Further, what kind of lawyers will those wealthy students become? Statistically they will become corporate “big law” lawyers with extremely high salaries. Leading to mass shortages in public defenders, workers rights workers, and civil rights lawyers. Essentially those who protect the poorest and most oppressed members of society, while simultaneously threatening capital.

The cause of the shortage has nothing to do with the pre degree required. It is entirely the limited space in medschools and the arbitrary lottery system of the accrediting body, which is corrupt.

The point of half the classes in undergrad is to allow those doctors to branch out and not just be single minded careerists. Those classes are supposed to make them think, experience new viewpoints, broaden their perspectives, and develop them as people. Not taking those classes has the same reasoning as the compsci and engineer students who whine and moan about being forced to take ethics or humanities courses.

Also taking basic biology, anatomy, and chemistry as part of medschool would be extremely inefficient, and the predegree builds a basic level of knowledge that doctors should have going into medschool.

Also of a person stops wanting to be a doctor in undergrad, they can easily switch over, as opposed to your trade school idea which would lock them into a single grouping of career paths unless they drop out.

If it is alright for me to ask, are you from, and referring to, southern Cyprus, or to the northern Turkish puppet state?

Nazi Germany coined the word “privatization”. Fascists are the undisputed kings of selling out their country.

This is the equivalent of current French colonial states in Africa having French be one of their official languages.

All good, it’s a weird sentence.

Makes sense, the sentence construction is definitely wonky to say the least.

I think I only picked up on it because I’ve seen Japan referred to in a similar way before.

For becoming a NATO “ally” and sending weapons to Ukraine?

Yog, this is such a tiny, hilarious problem. But the British international intelligence agency is called M I 6 as in the letter I. Your current title implies that there is a rouge M16, an American Vietnam War era battle rifle, that is targeting Chinese State Agency employees.

Nah, this is the French Legion, they won’t be counted as being in active combat until they’ve sexually assaulted all the civilian minorities they can find.

The 54th Mechanized Brigade is engaged in active combat surrounding Bakhmut and Slavyansk, and has been for months, meaning that the French troops will almost certainly engage Russian forces directly.

France has said for months that they would only send troops to reinforce the northern border with Belarus so Ukraine could draw the border troops to the front.

This act of desperation means that those reserves most likely don’t exist in any substantial numbers anymore, and there is no point in going through with the original plan.

It’s the beginning of the end.

Mechanized units have very little armour with them in general. The point is to rapidly deploy infantry into breakthroughs with APCs from which the infantry continue on foot. The APCs in turn are supposed to immediately retreat. Troops fighting alongside IFVs or tanks would be titled “Armoured”.

Essentially modern cavalry troops.

Still hilarious because I bet they don’t have any APCs.

The phrase is “The data tells a different story”

Data itself is singular as it’s a defined entity. It is the sum of its parts.

If it said “data points”, then you would be right.

Poor driver. Just tell him to take the bus.

I never said you wanted Chinese boots on the ground. I just said that China sees nothing to gain from shaking the hornets nest that is the Palestinian question at all. That includes making a statement.

Diplomatically China has little to gain from “challenging” the status quo. Even if it’s with something as small as a statement.

If they wanted to they obviously would have by now.