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We have the highest GDP in the world. China is a distant second. Iran is 51st. Israel, with a small population is 26th. Oil rich Saudi Arabia is 19th.
Iran's military is ranked about # 16. We are number 1. Israel is # 15. Saudi Arabia is #21. Hezbollah is widely considered the most powerful heavily armed non-state actor in the world. Its active-duty military force is estimated between 20,000 and 50,000 dedicated fighters, with additional reserves swelling total numbers closer to 100,000.
In Iraq and Afghanisan, we bribed the Shia military to stand down.
Between the EU and the UK, their GDP is about the same as the US. Their orimary antagonist, Russia, has an economy comparable in size to Texas and slightly smaller than New York. California is much larger.
The "deal" between Trump and Iran is really not a treaty. It would be possibe to do an equivalent to the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, but we already have a UN, despite all its flaws. As I type, Teheran is decimated, Iran's "leaders" may/may not have public support, Moscow is burning.
The UN position on the conflict between the United States/Israel and Iran is defined by a dual approach: a demand by the Secretary-General for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a Security Council resolution that formally condemns Iran's retaliatory strikes.
Both the US and Iran jhave blood on their hands and are not interested in a global resolution. Israel and other principals need to be party to any agreement. Teheran is not the capitol of any other country.
So...why doesn't the UN act? I'm so old I remember the Geneva Accords.....
Public health is in some regards already sicker. I have been hearing about certain areas in New Jersey that have higher rates of cancer than what is normal. That in itself appears to have an environmental cause or driver. Environmental hygiene is another metric of public health as well as infectious diseases such as Hantavirus, Ebola, and Norovirus. It’s explicitly assinine to defund educational programs in any area of human health and even more so to add a lifetime cap to educational opportunities. The federal government has become not only racist but sadistic.
We have the highest GDP in the world. China is a distant second. Iran is 51st. Israel, with a small population is 26th. Oil rich Saudi Arabia is 19th.
Iran's military is ranked about # 16. We are number 1. Israel is # 15. Saudi Arabia is #21. Hezbollah is widely considered the most powerful heavily armed non-state actor in the world. Its active-duty military force is estimated between 20,000 and 50,000 dedicated fighters, with additional reserves swelling total numbers closer to 100,000.
In Iraq and Afghanisan, we bribed the Shia military to stand down.
Between the EU and the UK, their GDP is about the same as the US. Their orimary antagonist, Russia, has an economy comparable in size to Texas and slightly smaller than New York. California is much larger.
The "deal" between Trump and Iran is really not a treaty. It would be possibe to do an equivalent to the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, but we already have a UN, despite all its flaws. As I type, Teheran is decimated, Iran's "leaders" may/may not have public support, Moscow is burning.
The UN position on the conflict between the United States/Israel and Iran is defined by a dual approach: a demand by the Secretary-General for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a Security Council resolution that formally condemns Iran's retaliatory strikes.
Both the US and Iran jhave blood on their hands and are not interested in a global resolution. Israel and other principals need to be party to any agreement. Teheran is not the capitol of any other country.
So...why doesn't the UN act? I'm so old I remember the Geneva Accords.....
Both China and Russia can block any action in the Security Council.
Already passed.
Public health is in some regards already sicker. I have been hearing about certain areas in New Jersey that have higher rates of cancer than what is normal. That in itself appears to have an environmental cause or driver. Environmental hygiene is another metric of public health as well as infectious diseases such as Hantavirus, Ebola, and Norovirus. It’s explicitly assinine to defund educational programs in any area of human health and even more so to add a lifetime cap to educational opportunities. The federal government has become not only racist but sadistic.