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 @kravietz 🦇 it seems a little odd for Moscow to provoke Israel, which so far has been fairly neutral in the Ukraine War. Maybe quid pro quo for Iranian military aid? 
 Biggest war in the middle east since Yom Kippur war has started I think. #geopolitics #israel #hamas 
 @e2aff28e what about the Iran-Iraq War, the two Gulf Wars and the (ongoing) Syrian Civil War? 
 @210de87f  the only voter class that matters in Britain are the NIMBYs, and wind power annoys the NIMBYs, so pumping energy from Morocco it is. 
 Putin may have a third-rate military, but he has learned how to weaponize the stupidity of Western voters. 
 *watching series about the King of Sweden* if there is one problem a monarch never has, it's know... 
 @c721880c under feudalism, that was everyone's lot in life. You were born a peasant, you died a peasant. Your dad was in a guild, you join that guild. Monarchy is the last vestige of that.