But who will pay for it? Mexico?
They’ll get Chinese construction firms to hire Chinese workers to make it using Chinese materials and, get this, charge them tariffs for ALL THREE thus making a profit and bringing American jobs home!
I can economics good me.
Ground assaults into Lebanon.
The PCC is a very profissional gang, yet ruthless and violent, that controls the crime in several states.
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The UAE getting it’s first casino
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Yet another reason to NOT vote for Trump, since he is on the side of the ethno-nationalists, who would certainly plunge the Balkans back into conflict, with (as the article points out) the help of Putin… They need to actually move past the ethnic conflicts and figure out a new path forward together.
Tito was by no means perfect (the slow ethnic cleansing of Albanians for one, was awful), but he gave people something above their ethnicity to hold onto, and by all accounts many did. Brotherhood and unity had its flaws, but by tying it to the herorism of the partisans during the war, it gave Yugoslav civitizens the thing they need to bring them into common cause. But those ethnic grievances never went away in some corners and it was stoked by nationalists within the regional parties whenever they got a chance. The constant devolution of power to the regional instead of the national party just cemented that shift. Once Tito was gone, that more than anything was what led to the wars - blaming other ethnic groups for the troubles within the Yugoslav economy…
If there is a lesson we can take away from what ended up being the bloody end of Yugoslavia, it’s that ethnic identity as a form of nationalism isn’t “natural”… it’s as made up as any other form of nationalist identity, and we can find other things to help countries hang together. Our shared collective allegiances are evershifting and we can figure out narratives that bring us together rather than embrace ones that put us into conflict with some imagined other.
