Like, in return for cheap oil for eternity--or else?
And it's "or else we take your oil fields themselves," right?
No, Russia spent many years under Islam.
It’s a part of their culture. Putin has been funding Islamic groups and financially promoting the expansion of Islam for years.
Another sound reason not to trust them.
Gaza is a very difficult situation.
The pali’s are given their own territory, millions upon millions of dollars, and spent the last 10 years using that money to build tunnel networks and arms. Not schools, not hospitals, not water facilities, not housing. Bombs.
They launched a surprise attack against anyone they could find on 10/7. It was not an attack on “occupiers”. It was a mass slaughter of unarmed civilians going about their day, ironically of the Israeli’s who sympathized the most with the pali’s.
Israel almost certainly had some warning, at least from their own surveillance, and allowed it. Probably so the current clearing operation could commence given that leading up to the attack, the pali’s regularly fired “dumb” rockets into civilian areas, kidnapped kids, blew up pizza parlors and weddings, etc. All prior efforts at living with the pali’s failed. No reason to believe another “agreement” would work.
Kids, women and non-hamas men are in the cross-fire. More accurately, they are used to hide the hamas guys in and among them, and in turn those people give haven and shelter to hamas. That’s natural since the hamas guys are the sons, fathers, uncles & cousins of the ‘innocent’. They do so willingly and knowing civilian casualties are guaranteed with these tactics.
The IDF tactic of wiping the battle field clean is shocking to see, but militarily the only real option when dealing with an intractable, uncompromising and committed enemy who cares nothing of their own family used as human shields, and whose family is ready to die for their allah. What a f*cked up belief system.
Where is the call for Hamas to surrender? They lay down their arms and the operation is over. That’ll never happen because the war, ongoing since the 50’s, is about extermination of the Jews and nothing less can be tolerated.
Israel has tried and tried, made agreements, reached accords, given money, handed-over infrastructure, allowed cross-border employment, treated their sick and wounded, and are repaid with bombs and calls for extermination.
How else do you fight that?
Rabid dogs are put down for a reason.