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Conclusions that can be drawn from the Israel-Iran conflict and the broader global situation: - Currently, international law only functions effectively in times of low tension. When crises escalate, countries tend to rely on power politics. Each state acts based on its own interpretation of national interest. This will remain the case until the key destabilizing factors are eliminated. - Russia is the main threat to the free world. - Global instability will continue to rise until an effective system of international law is established. However, as mentioned, achieving this will be difficult without first addressing the sources of destabilization. - The global arms race is set to intensify, with more countries expanding their military capabilities. - Once again, Russia has shown itself to be an unreliable partner. Alliances with Russia offer no genuine security guarantees. - Iran’s air defense systems, including those supplied by Russia, proved to be ineffective.
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Kinda can‘t hear it anymore how Russia is portrayed as the evil and US the Savior of the free world. The US has made it clear that they only care about Military strength, not international laws etc.; certainly been doing it with their military in the past and have weaponizee the Financial System more than anybody else to make (less obvious) moves but now (with Trump, latest actions, and rhetoric) we‘re officially back to whoever is stronger overall wins. As the West is tired of actual fighting & the Financial System isn‘t as robust as many might think, this overconfidence may very well be their downfall.
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2 more Notes - it‘s funny that every politician in the US has said China is the main threat for years but you & News currently single out Russia - Why is Russia a Bad Partner? They have always delivered cheap Energy to Germany as agreed. Meanwhile the US actively wanted Germany to get 3x more expensive energy from them instead and has started a trade war with all its allies (even with those they made deals just a few years ago)
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Selling energy at low prices isn’t necessarily a sign of being a “good partner.” It can be part of a strategy: to get you hooked on a resource, create dependency, and then use that as leverage. Russia supplied cheap gas to Germany for years. But that wasn’t driven by altruistic friendship it was calculated: To make European industry dependent on Russian resources. That said, I meant something else when I talked about partnership. I meant how they treat their own allies. For example, they abandoned Armenia simply because a non-systemic, non-pro-Russian leader came to power there. For Russia, the West is the enemy because it stands in the way of their imperial revanchism. That’s the core of it. That’s what everything else stems from. The rest is just details.
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