Azeem

Also a reminder all this muh multipolarity talk on the rise by BRICS countries is bullshit. They just want to globalise the American playbook i.e assassinations, coups, invasion not replace it with something better.

India should relax. This isn't age of empires when an empire weakened different areas broke away from their suzerainty. Modern nation states are far more rigid, secession movements don't succeed until global/regional powers want them to and are willing to intervene in anyway i.e Russia in Donbass. Texas Catalonia can be as much popular movements they want but won't happen unless they get outside help. They are only reviving the once popular but now fringe Sikh independence sentiment by these useless killings abroad and giving US own goals. US won't do anything now bcz they want India against China but certainly in future when India becomes too 'independent' they will use this for sanctions and what not.

Same energy

American Evangelicals are proselytizing this idea everywhere that Israel is the biblical Israel and those who honor Israel will be blessed, Jews come back Jesus come back etc Even Japanese Korean Evangelical Christians were signing bombs to be dropped on Gaza. The irony of Japanese doing that This theology is called Dispensationalism and is rooted in the writings of John Nelson Darby. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism But this theology really kicked off by a guy name C.I Scofield whose annotated Bible, Scofield Reference Bible, popularized the idea in U.S that creation of Israel and Jews coming back to build the Temple is necessary for Jesus to come back. After which he will give them (Jews) a final chance to believe in him otherwise... Scofield used Doctor of Divinity along with his name but no seminary in U.S has his name in his records. He was allegedly very close to a hardcore Zionist lawyer in New York who funded his career. The biography on his life discusses this in detail.

Some of them are lowering their prices and offering discounts. Lesson for dumb masses for future instead of bitching about prices they can mitigate them by organize boycott.

The SC five is a 'We won WW2' club. Germany can economically surpass China and military Russia but never will be given a permanent seat. The original candidate for the fifth member was Brazil but Russia China objected it being close to US and possibly be influenced by it. So they agreed to have a fifth member which mostly will be silent and gets along with really no one so they picked France. That's why you occasionally see France taking a different stance to US. Not joining Iraq war, recently clashing with them over submarines to Australia etc The question is, is it genuine or an act given to them ?

Penalty taking.

What DDW said. I would ideally have commentator panel like reality shows like American idol. One serious meticulous, one blowhard, one for humor, one easily irascible

Slowly and steadily.

Every century has a period where borders are changed, old polities go extinct new ones come up. Last century it was in 40s then in 90s with Yugoslavia and Soviets. Definitely it will happen in this century as well. I propose independent Texas bcz at least they have local cuisine to distinguish from rest of America. independent Scotland merge both Koreas merge back all the irrelevant former Yugoslavians independent Catalonia and 2010 WC should go to them. all -stan countries to merge Israel allowed to annex Greater Israel but in return for giving independence to US All frozen places like Siberia Greenland declared no man's land like Antarctica independent Tasmania Athens declared an international city to host all kinds of sporting events to avoid sports washing All irrelevant countries in Africa Asia that have three colors common in their flags should merge

Is it a fringe or popular movement ?

Argentina vs Ecuador Uruguay vs Brazil Mexico vs Peru Colombia vs USA Argentina vs Uruguay Mexico vs USA Argentina vs USA

U.S had three options when this started 1. Treat it like an actual war 2. Keep sending low-medium efficiency weapons to drag the war without Ukraine either winning or loosing 3. Disengage and leave Ukraine to its own They were doing the option 2 but the situation in Israel has taken that off the table. Now they must either go for 1 or 3

Texas has got enough petitions to put secession as an option for the primary elections next year It's happening

U.S making similar calls but it is likely a) Just rhetoric b) Not workable. Most of these 'settlers' are dual nationals. They hold nationalities of US, Belgium etc they don't need a visa.

Israel is now moving from political Zionism to Messianic Zionism. If people were following news from Israel prior to all this they may know huge protests were going on against Nethanyahu. Nethanyahu is leading a coalition govt of very right wing Kahanist-Messianic groups of Israel. What is Kahanist ? Watch video below One of the primary goals of Kahanism is to bring about the coming of the Jewish Messiah. Early Zionist leaders were mostly secular they faced opposition from Orthodox Jewish circles who opposed creation of Israel bcz they believed a Jewish state cannot be established until the Messiah comes. Watch from 17:50 Early Zionist leaders pleaded with them that we can't wait forever let's have a Jewish state first and then you can work for coming of the Messiah. Some Orthodox groups agreed but others oppose to this day as in the video above. But as one can sense it was just a ruse to get them on their side as Israel was run by secular leaning, political Zionist groups who kept Kahanist leaning groups at bay. But that started to change in 90s with the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin who was viewed to be giving Palestinians too much concessions. Since 2000s Nethanyahu has been gaining gradual power. Now the Kahanist-Messianic groups believe the time of Messiah is near and they can't waste time anymore. Some things need to be sorted like a final solution to Palestinian issue and rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. Nethanyahu in 1991 The end goal of Messianic Zionism is not just solution to Palestine but returning all those places where Jews have ever lived from near to distant past. Weekly publication of Kahanist groups called for annexing south of Lebanon in recent edition. The red heifer whose sacrifice is needed inorder to mix its ashes with water for purification before building of the Jewish Temple, as a prerequisite for coming of Messiah, were bread and sent from Texas to Israel in Sept 2022. Out of the total five only one needs to be in perfect shape for the ceremony planned in April 2024. The Evangelicals in US also support this because they also believe the temple needs to be rebuilt in order for Jesus to return that's why they are supporting the Kahanists in all this. What happens to Jews after that in their view is another story. imo what happens in the region next will be determined by which elements prevail in the policy making circles of US and Israel. Those who view it religious ideologically vs those who view it secular strategically.

– Most centuries in 4th innings of Tests in history (5) – Only player to score a Test ton in each Test nation – One of the highest Test century conversion rate of over 50% – Three times he was informed of a death of his relative ( including mother and brother) while he was batting 50+ – Known for erratic behavior and even pulled a knife at a batting coach – Known for being rigid as a captain and there was an attempted mutiny against him during CT 2009 which failed bcz one of the mutineer snitched.

I see Judaism as a class indicator in America (at least in upper echelons of society) not some strict ethno-religious group. Marry into one or convert and you are part of the club like Trump's daughter did.

Chile suddenly went shit after winning back to back Copa Americas

What's with erratic hairstyles and right wing politicians ?

Babar has stepped down from captaincy in all formats. He has been poor in decision making lately yes but he has been treated disrespectfully. Hopefully with captaincy gone he can focus purely on his batting. Redemption arc coming in T20 next year !

India should've kept one pacer from one end in the middle instead of both Jadeja and Kuldeep bowling.

I felt bad for Rohit Sharma. He seems a nicer bloke than Kohli but yet has to win a WC despite being so dominant lately.

ICC white ball tournament index in last 10 years. Winner = 10 pts Runner-up = 5 pts Semifinals = 3 pts India 37 (1 trophy) England 36 (2 trophies) Australia 33 (3 trophies) New Zealand 24 (0 trophies) Pakistan 18 ( 1 trophy) West Indies 13 (1 trophy) Sri Lanka 13 (1 trophy) South Africa 12 (0 trophies) Bangladesh 3 (0 trophies)