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I suspect that part of the reason they're also taking gold out of Canada is to give themselves plausibility when they say that it's not a knock against the USA.

Trump doesn't WANT the dollar to be a reserve currency. Not exactly, anyway.

Desperate or vindictive. There was a recent debate over whether the EU should use the money in the Russian accounts it suspended to bankroll Ukraine, because Russia owes Ukraine reparations. One of the reasons that might not be a good idea is that a lot of EU money is in the USA, and with Trump it's monkey see, monkey do. Except for "the EU should" read "the USA should", for "Russian accounts" read "EU accounts", for "bankroll Ukraine" read "line Trump's pockets", and for "because Russia owes Ukraine reparations" read "because Trump likes money".

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"Just because you're not interested in politics doesn't mean politics isn't interested in you". Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, etc... these are all countries in Europe's immediate vicinity and what happens in these countries affects the EU whether we want it to or not. If I'm rich, I'd rather live in a nice neighborhood with neighbors who are doing as well as I am, than in a dangerous neighborhood where all the neighbors see me as a stuck-up rich boy whose car has too many hubcaps.

The STILL ongoing civil war in Libya, for instance, causes a constant stream of migration across the Mediterranean, with a lot of human trafficking, because Libya hasn't got time to worry about that when Libyans are killing other Libyans.

Morocco intentionally sent refugees into Ceuta for politically motivated reasons.

An unstable Arabian Peninsula is not good for Europe. An unstable North Africa is not good for Europe. Perhaps the USA can cause shitstorms in the Middle East and then blithely walk away back to the other hemisphere, but that shit is on our doorstep.

He's not saying "we're gonna target civilian aircraft", he's saying "we're starting to really like using drones to hit various targets in Russia and are planning on doing more of that, so civilian aircraft might wanna avoid flying through Russia because it's gonna be hard to fly around all the drones there".

It's interesting how the main argument Israel gives for its ethnic cleansing of Palestine is "security", when the people pushing the ethnic cleansing are abysmal at actually keeping Israel secure.

Or to paraphrase one of Bibi's frenemies: "I like the leaders who DIDN'T let October 7th happen on their watch".

Different Charles Dickens novel.

None of those recommendations are gonna be acted on under Trump.

You say that as if it's up to the EU whether Russia attacks or not. Then again I suppose it is, insofar as si vis pacem, para bellum.

Stopping genocide by doing what?

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