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  • You’re looking at only the last few weeks. Historicallu, not so much. They have rejected monitoring. Rejected negotiating. Rejected reasonable terms that led to sanctions at multiple points.

    Silencing dissent is logical but not creating martyrs in a culture that idolises them.

    Clamping down on women for wearing what they choose with violence is not logical. It’s consistent with their ideology, which is my point. The ideology supersedes logic.

    In the case of ideology overriding logic, that could lead to use against Israel. Or even the suggestion could cause Israel to strike first as happened this time.

    Their support of multiple factions in multiple neighbouring countries targeting than working constructively is also illogical and inflammatory





  • I think it’s that they realize peak oil is over. The middle east is a geopolitical strategic position for energy, as the world is now finding out via Iran closing the SoH.

    Israel realised that that is on the wane. Along with the next generations attitude towards their relationshipnwith Israel. Israel is going hard in now as they have a larger support from the USA. I fully expect that to naturally wind down due to internal US political change and global moves away from carbon fuel.

    Sure, oil shocks would still bite, but nowhere near to the same level. It’s why the other oil production states are desperately trying to pivot to other industries. Iran has screwed that by making them unsafe. America doesn’t realize that by not protecting their allies there, in the same way they protect Israel, that they will lose them. Edit:typos





  • Australia doesn’t have a large population and pretty much everything has to be imported at increased cost or made on shore for increased cost.

    There is a lack of efficiency built into the ‘shell be right’ attitude, which unfortunately means that those in positions of power to try and reduce costs don’t do so. The lack of healthy competition and high wages are contributing to this. Government then feels less pressure to bring costs in line also.

    Most other countries pay their staff less and have a more efficient system in place. Generally though, the higher price leads to decent, if not world leading, service levels.

    Generally, it’s known as the Australia tax. The bright side is not leads to less people living in poverty and a high standard of living. The bad side is every is more expensive so after the essentials, everything costs significantly more. The essentials also cost more, but it’s less egregious.