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  • Ksin@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    The majority of isrealis support genociding the palestinian people.

    The majority of palestinians support genociding the isreali people.

    There will be no peace in the region, not now, not in a hundred years. Not until the last man has slain his last enemy will that holy land be free of violence.


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    Okay sure I’m not gonna say he’s wrong because sure given that arresting the head of state of a powerful nation would carry immense consequences I can believe that most countries would just rather not do it, no matter the severity of the crimes, as he said that’s just realpolitik.

    But to freely admit that you would ignore your legal obligations when you didn’t have to is just so fucking stupid!

    My point of view on this is that the ICC is an arm of the rules based global order, which was constructed by and in the interest of “the west”. Which means this statement delegitimizes the ICC therefore degrading western interests, so it real damn idiotic for the leader of Belgium to say this since it’s essentially the capital of “the west”! Politicians may have a reputation for doublespeak but that’s because there are a great many truths you simply can’t say if you want to further your political interests.






  • Indeed this is a problem that basically all rapidly developing countries have/will/are facing. Japan is famously struggling with their aging demographic right now, China is coming in 10-20 years, Russia is gonna have a particularly nasty time in about 30 years, Italy quite a bad one in just a decade. Plenty of emerging economies like Egypt, Philippines, and Rwanda are likely having their booms right now. At the same time many western countries have benefited greatly from immigration smoothing out their age demographic brackets since immigrants tend younger.


  • Here is India’s population pyramid.

    There is a clear swell in the population aged around 20 years old which will be fantastic for the country in the next few decades as they will have a surplus of people in the most productive years of their lives, growing the economy massively. However, right after this glut of workers there is a rather sharp decline in population which means that once these boom time people start retiring, and therefore no longer producing economic output, they will then have to be supported by the suddenly much less numerous younger generation. Meaning there will be more people living off of the work of fewer, that won’t be comfortable.

    That’s why they want more babies, to lessen the blow of an aging population.



  • I really wonder how Hezbollah are going to take effectively ceding territory to the Lebanese Armed Forces(LAF). The agreement apparently mandates that after the 60 day transfer process that LAF, alongside UN forces, become the sole military presence in southern Lebanon, an area previously held by Hezbollah. While the two forces are “friendly” at the moment it also wasn’t all too long ago that they fought on opposite sides of the Lebanese Civil War, and to me it’s looking a lot like this agreement will push them closer to resuming that conflict.


  • The ship already is effectively detained. For the last week it’s been anchored in Danish waters surrounded by military vessels, at this very moment I count 5 German and 1 danish military/coast guard ships within a few km of of the Chinese Yi Peng 3. This article is basically just Sweden asking for the ship to be moved to their own waters so they can more easily investigate, the motivation being that the cable was damaged within Swedish maritime borders so they should be the ones leading the investigation.