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Quaker

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Why did Hamas attack, why did Putin attack, why did Azerbajian attack?


What about the Saudis and oil prices? What about Edrogen?

There are a number of factors and they would have broken differently with Trump in power.

Putin might not have attacked Ukraine? Trump was weakening NATO for Putin, much more effective to have Trump surrender than to attack. Trump being Putin's personal Neville Chamberlin.

Azerbajian routing Armenia as well as Finland and Sweden hewing to a resurgent NATO are consequences of Putin's war.

Hamas attack is a desperate gambit. It worked (short term) much better than even Hamas expected. But Hamas was ready to lose 1000 fighters, have Israel bomb the Gaza strip, just to try to grab a few dozen hostages. That has a lot more to do with the weakness of Netanyahu than the Trump/Biden calculation. Biden's courting of the Saudis was frankly right in line with Trumps strategy of courting Middle Eastern support for Israel.

Israel attack is on Netanyahu, not on US. Confident that history will see it that way.

(In response to this post by BocaHoo91)

Posted: 10/18/2023 at 10:16AM



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