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The world is becoming more vulnerable; too vulnerable for badheads and hotheads and sureheads (such as Christopher Luxon) and bombastic appeasers (such as Keir Starmer) who cannot broach alternative explanations or strategies.
As a minimum the New Zealand government should confront the Israelis and demand two things: Non-Repetition and Reparations.
The argument about cable television news ever being factual is a moot point. CNN’s coverage of the 1991 Gulf War only served to illustrate how subservient a news outlet could be to official narratives.
The best solution to wartime privations is to not start wars in the first place; and – if they happen anyway – to quickly find a pragmatic economic solution to end the war without creating 'losers'; to end the war through negotiations rather than belligerent 'demands'.
Ian Powell discusses the humanitarian crisis in Cuba caused by the escalation of economic warfare by the United States.
The enduring truth is that the US is a nation structurally tilted toward political control and economic domination. Neither this November nor any other will change that reality until the geopolitical realities in the Middle East change.
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