• Dimmer@leminal.space
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    7 days ago

    So apparently there’s still no plan. Trump created some big news trying to force Arab countries to deal with this, but I doubt America has much leverages left. Now with USAID gone, the influence was even less.

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      6 days ago

      Wait, you mean threatening Egypt and then asking them to do you a favor wasn’t a good idea? If they were thinking that the U.S. might not be reliable and BRICS might not be the answer before, I think we cemented their concerns with us.

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      5 days ago

      I was calculating about $100 billion conservatively to relocate 2 million people. The long term cost could be over a trillion. I wonder why everyone is balking at the idea of taking them in.

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        5 days ago

        I think it’s also just the destabilizing effect of adding millions of immigrants. Jordan is only 11-12M people; Egypt is about 10x that amount. Both are strongly anti-Islamist and anyone who takes in Palestinians would be taking in some % of Hamas.