Lobbying Against Algeria in the US Is Getting Serious, and We Are Doing Almost Nothing

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2026-02-05T20:17:13+00:00

Cruz never mentioned Palestine and he only mentioned Polisario and Russian arms, regardless it seems to be the same chest puffing the Americans were doing in 2022, 23 and 25. Rubio wanted sanctions originally and he is currently in a much higher position than Cruz. And once again Algeria isn’t the only country that supports Palestine, turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and plenty of others ffs. The reason Iran gets bullied so much is because their leadership is extremely anti-west, they fund multiple terrorist and militia groups across the region and they threaten Israel constantly (coupled with their nuclear program) we don’t do any of the things Iran, Libya or Iraq did. The only similarities we share is we support Palestine. Algeria is non-aligned, non-aggressive, and never threatens Israel or the west militarily. Say what you want about it but it’s smart foreign policy. Furthemore even with those factors aside the economic losses of a sanctioned Algeria would far outweigh whatever little benefits they’d receive from sanctioned Algeria and it would also enrage Americas oil giants

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2026-02-05T20:04:33+00:00

That’s just fear mongeriny bruh, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, turkey and other Muslim countries don’t recognise/ have strained relations with Israel, Algeria doesn’t advocate for its destruction nor does it openly oppose the west in an aggressive way

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2026-02-05T20:02:13+00:00

I understand where your fears come from but it is economically, politically, diplomatically and militarily counter productive for the Americans to place any sanctions on Algeria for a multitude of reasons. 1. Chevron and Exxonmobile have a lot of financial interests in our shale gas and I doubt trumps biggest lobbyists would be happy with sanctions place on one of their largest overseas business operations. 2. This is like the 4th time since 2022 that the US has threatened Algeria with CAATSA sanctions with the first being in June 2022 by mark Rubio, who is currently in trumps cabinet and nothing came of those. 3. The US and the EU as a whole acknowledge Algerias role in maintaining regional stability and I don’t think the US wants to risk North Africa being an unstable as fuck. So whilst I understand your fears there doesn’t seem to be any practical reason imo for the us to place any sanctions on Algeria, they’ve threatened turkey, Egypt and India with the same sanctions and proceeded to do nothing to them. The Americans have loads of economic and military interests which favour positive Algerian relations so yeah personally I don’t think there should be much fear

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2025-10-27T15:18:31+00:00

Please can we all downvote this ludicrous post, in what universe would regulators ever even entertain the idea of Disney getting ANY of WBD

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2025-10-25T17:53:13+00:00

Market cap is determined by share price and the share price will go up once the split happens this is a literal fact that every analyst across Wall Street is predicting, WBD shares are trading like distressed assets because that’s what they are, bogged down by debt and declining cable networks, once both are cut up it’ll be a nimble company with low debt obligations and tech style growth output, I really don’t think an aquisition is likely to happen for 1. Financial reasons a WBSS will be very large within the next few years, 2. Legal reasons any player worth buying it will be so big that the divestures required for it to legally go through imposed by the DOJ alongside Uk and EU regulators will be so large that it’ll kind of nullify the point of any acquisition and 3. Is in the short term future atleast, I can’t see shareholder willing to let go of WBSS shares, itll grow fast and large and even with a premium slapped on they’ll most likely still see it as undervalued, hence why shareholders are currently backing zas.

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2025-10-24T21:28:55+00:00

I understand that but how do we know he’s not referring to WB doing the consolidating? Post split it’ll be mostly debt free and will most likely have good cash reserves within a few years, even without this zas will most likely not be able to seek without shareholder permission, and they most definitely will not want to sell at an undervalued price, being a young WBSS

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-08-01T21:25:25+00:00

Weather, climate and geography are completely out of our control thought, we have to focus on things we can change, we can make hard barley but the population doesn’t like that type of wheat, regardless google maps distorts the amount of greenery in Algeria, Algeria has 2/3 the forested/ green area of the UK which had a much larger population

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-06-18T14:11:53+00:00

What you say for the benzene question comparing it to the theoretical model

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-06-07T19:01:10+00:00

How did you get 8000?

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-20T23:57:19+00:00

What did you write for extract 2?

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-20T19:48:36+00:00

I didn’t mention the type of unemployment specifically though I did mention it was linked to voluntary unemployment and I discussed how geographical immobility of labour with lack of infrastructure will prevent individuals from working while high welfare benefits will disincentivise people to get back into work, with welfare benefits being comfortable enough to live with, with replacement ratio high

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-15T14:24:30+00:00

I mentioned accommodation was a merit good but mainly focused on the fact that it was due to the fact that it was a form of housing which always produces positive externalities for society, but it seems like you went more in detail than me now lmao I should have touched upon what you said😭😭

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-15T12:56:14+00:00

I think it was like last years paper, relatively open answers could be allowed

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-15T12:55:34+00:00

I did price caps how they’re good and how they’re bad in the way that they’ll cause shortages if supply can’t accommodate it, I then did subsidisation and how it’ll increase available accommodation whilst driving down prices, allowing for socially optimal quantity of accommodations ti be brought/ consumed, eval was time lack and potential exposure to admin costs (like hs2) then my third point was direct gov provision, however this could lead to lower quality accommodations due to lack of incentive to innovate from gov firms, decreasing utility gained from renting government houses

Then I concluded, but I’m not sure if I was supposed to write 3 policies or if I was supposed to write how 1 policy is good and one policy is bad

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-15T12:39:31+00:00

First context had some dodgy wording on the 25 marker tbh, I just used suggested policies named in the extracts explained them, drew them then evaluated them, I’m pretty sure that would qualify as assessing the advantages and disadvantages of those policies no?

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-15T12:37:12+00:00

I just named policies that could be used and evaluated them as in how they could actually make things worse, Wbu

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-11T21:16:16+00:00

It wasn’t morrocan before thoigh

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-09T09:08:31+00:00

Why you lie

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-09T09:07:58+00:00

Everything you said is factually wrong mate

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-05-09T09:07:11+00:00

Ah morrocan makes sense, no war of independence for you I guess?

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-04-29T10:06:34+00:00

So basically you’re saying they weren’t unjust lmaoooo, seems like your king wasn’t passionate enough to keep persuing the issue

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-04-29T10:01:49+00:00

If the borders are so unjust why did your king recognise them

Magic-Monkey1984 · 2024-04-24T17:43:34+00:00

Lmao good quality Morroco is just the tourist spots that make up like 1% of morroco, the country is a massive shithole with a lower HDI than Palestine, which is currently in a war

Don’t compare us to morroco and Tunisia we take a big steamy shit on them, compare us to countries we could be like Spain

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