Well the US doesn’t recognise Taiwan either so can hardly be annoyed for another country not?

My bad, thought that was a p-8.

You're right I didn't explain myself properly. I meant that it wasn't worth it and it was just a pure populist move as you said.

RC-135s aren't sub hunters... They listen in on signals such as communication, radar, etc. They have no ability to detect a submarine.

P-3s and P-8s are the sub hunters.

Source: former P-3 guy

Netanyahu wants power, not democracy.

It's called nuking your account.

Do you even reddit?

So many people commenting and forming opinions with zero knowledge of the historical context. This isn’t some brazen attempt by Bibi to become a dictator, the showdown between the Court and the Knesset is the climax of tensions that have been brewing ever since Ben Gurion decided to forgo a formal constitution.

That’s not relevant. We all knew he was going to form the coalition he was. The left couldn’t stop fighting each other, and now you got him.

[removed]

[removed]

You can't lower the prices without the budget for it, so a minister can't just lower prices as they want, but that's not really the point.

The blanket statement that when a government spends money it comes from taxes is obvious and doesn't really add anything, the exact same statement could be said about government subsidising healthcare, or really nearly anything the government does.

What you can do is argue it wasn't worth it to spend the money on subsidies for public transport and it'd better spent elsewhere (even within the ministry), and that's a fair argument considering how lacking the transport is, regardless of its pricing.

I agree she didn't do much, but I think that's more to do with the governments rather than the minister, that coalition wasn't ever making public transport work on Saturday, and significant improvements (infrastructure) cost a ton of money upfront which I dont see any government investing in, sadly.

It's not pointless, Michaeli, like any other minister, can lower the prices of anything through regulations, the question is at the expense of what. I'm just saying that she basically didn't do anything meaningful when she was a minister.

Cowards

23% is pretty good in a parliamentary system.

This is not the US, the PM is just the one that gathered enough parties to vote for him. Netanyahu's own party got 23% of the votes, but joined forces with other right-wing and orthodox jewish parties.

to put in perspective - Lapid, the head of the opposition, got 17% votes for his party, and Gantz's party got 9%, so together they actually have more voters. They just don't recruit the orthodox jews, else they could've actually formed a coalition even now (not gonna happen ever, but those are the numbers)

Most protestors didn't

A technically correct but also completely pointless comment

Russia doomsday subs are under the Arctic ice. Diverting the sub killers to Europe is a plus for them.

Cool. They still voted for him though.

Considering the US tried to perform a coup there a few years back... the US weren't happy anyways

15 years living in China gave me some background info on Mainland-Taiwan relationship I think

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)

> Military expert Per Erik Solli with the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs' research group on security and defense says the flight was significant as NATO "Now can use the airspace over mid- and northern Finland to collect information about the Kola-base complex area."

> The aircraft are frequent visitors to airspace over the Black Sea, in the Baltics around Kaliningrad, and up north, over the Barents Sea.

> Simultaneously as the U.S. surveillance jet made its first flight over Lapland south of the Kola Peninsula on Thursday, Finland's NATO membership took a significant step forward with the Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee unanimously approving the Nordic country's accession to the alliance.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: north^#1 flight^#2 over^#3 airspace^#4 Finland^#5

No he never was

Which is what Lapid advocates for. He suggested limits to PM already a while ago. I think he’s the best option we have

Except being bigger cunts