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Originally Posted by SummerKiss
I dont think so, because if it was like that, Russia should start total bombing of Ukraine immediately, just because they are stealing our natural gas!
Yeah, but if you start bombing Ukraine, the hell with the atrocities, what's more important is Russia would lose a customer for its natural gas.
But I'm only partly joking because that's why it's important to have economic ties with countries around the world and particularly with your neighbors, even if you don't have the same religion or political system. Countries are be less willing to bomb each other if it means losing billions of dollars in trade. Sad to say, that is a better deterrent for war than the prospect of atrocities. But of course the problem in the Middle East is Israel is an ostracized member of the neighborhood. What the Middle East needs is more capitalism and less fanaticism, imo.