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as with Russia-Ukraine the imperative should be to de-escalate, if poss. we dont want to walk into the gates of hell.

I'm reminded of the joke about how "academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low". all of the controversy online in recent days has been about some detail which ultimately changes nothing about the wider picture. did hamas behead babies, or just shoot them. did Israel...

treasury market liquidity is an _outcome_

we all know nowadays that treasury market liquidity is not a given

what does that actually mean though

it's certainly true that tensions between the us and china are high, relative to the average for the last twenty years (for example)

agreed but the absence of brakes is not indefinite. in the words of tim sahey, israel is operating with a "window of legitimacy", due to the spectacular nature of the atrocities committed by hamas. the question for the inhabitants of Gaza is how quickly that window closes.

highly recommend this article by perry anderson on the coevolution of "civilisation" and international law: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii143/articles/perry-anderson-the-standard-of-civilization

either way, israel now has a "window of legitimacy" in terms of its peers, or those states who it considers its peers, and it is using that window to maximum effect

> me, seeing the gates of hell have finally opened > "wonder what's inside these"

this feels like a 9/11 type event, where the shock of the atrocities committed by Hamas justify for israel an overwhelming response, and the international community is largely in agreement.

perhaps they were hoping to provoke a massive retaliation, ground invasion of the Gaza strip and a regional war involving Israel and its neighbours.

very grim situation, awful images and the response you can imagine will equally terrible

This additional bit of detail is mind-boggling:

Good article about infrastructure costs in the UK: https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/britains-infrastructure-is-too-expensive

forum fav Josef k on conspiracies

I'd go even further than that and say theres a sense in which capitalism and anti-capitalism are deeply complimentary

my "hyper-racist" tee shirt is one of my favs, it goes with literally everything

he does say that a lot, tbf. but I mean the struggle bw left and right, atheistic communism vs christian capitalism, or however you characterise the 19th and 20th century political meta narrative, is over. obvs you can still line up in those corners, but I dont think it means the same thing...

well it depends on what you mean by the "right". a lot of ppl on the right would probably violently reject the idea that theres no diff bw right and left, I think.