I don't think that is what they are protesting but it is amusing
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a big part of the protest is the spike in cost of living, which has spiked due to fuel prices.
it isn't 100% on Iran, but they had a part to play.
that is what happens when you let a rouge terrorist state start wars with US backing only to lose them.
Idk what to tell you, but the US has been a rogue terrorist state for decades now as well
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when you have three out of four of the largest air forces on the planet, it's not terrorism, it's colonialism.
Israel is doing America’s bidding, not the other way around. They are entirely dependent on US aid for their security and economy, how could they not be a puppet?
Tail wagging the dog situation. Netanyahu has pitched decapitation strikes and and a bombing campaign to every president since Bush 2, and they all turned him down. Trump fired his military advisors from his first term so there was no one left to explain why that was a bad idea.
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Maybe 100% not, but current fuel prices sure have a role in it.
France is very indebted. It needs to either raise taxes or cut spending. Debt gets more expensive because its refinancing at higher rates. We have higher rates because of higher inflation. And inflation is driven by the oil shock.
in Spain is the housing crisis caused by foreigner rich people and speculation.
in the canary islands, agravated by tourism
it's all connected tho, the increase in the cost of living caused by the energy crisis fuels the fire of these other problems. also your conclusions are weirdly xenophobic, rich spanish nationals are also part of the global bourgeoisie.
Housing crisis is because of constrained supply. Foreign rich speculators bet it will stay this way. Not the dumbest bet.
I will explain how speculation works here: they bought million of houses during the 2008 crisis, they keep some closed to reduce the offer and increase the pricing. meanwhile they sell housing for vacational rent or other investors and the price continue increasing.
is not just a lack of "offer" or "constrained supply". they bought the houses and keep a lot of them closed to increase their earnings artificially.
and the right wing setup rules to "free" social houses in a lot of regions and allow them to be sold to speculators after that time finished (Madrid is an example). plus a lot of the houses were sold to private investors by the right wing during the crisis to the cheapest pricing possible.
a lot of people living in those houses are at the edge of eviction because those investors want to resell them or increase the rent as rich foreigners offer them more, or just resell them to other investors.
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Somebody needs to give this a name like arab spring -> european winter?
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I wasn’t aware Iran was the cause of the shortage of teachers in France.
A large section of the ongoing French protests is motivated by the steep increase in fuel costs.
The Iran war didn't cause the teacher shortage, but it is one of the many reasons for this protest.
The shortage of teachers was the start, then more and more people joined the protests and it became a more global statement. Now, they are protests against the cost of living crisis and the erosion of the socialist state
The increase in the cost of living due to hikes up in the energy prices is indeed part of the shortage of teachers.
The teacher shortage isn't new.
No but we're just pissed as usual 🤷🏻 fuck facists Fuck the rich
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Afaik Brasil and Argentina situations are unrelated to the oil prices, but their point remains valid for europe
brasil makes a lot of their own fuel, so prices have not been climbing as much as in europe. brasil is protesting because the remnant of its democracy is about to end.
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Protest in India is against the election commission for manipulation of the voter roll. I've seen Western media get this wrong as well.
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mexico is missing
Mexico is interesting because the rebellions there seem much more localized, against local governments, while the federal government remains enormously popular and is seen as not really responsible for the conditions driving the rebellion. That's my read following from the US, at least.
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Brazil?
and india as well as argentina, and to some degree even spain is neutral, I think they are speaking in a perspective of "we versus the world", which is a bit nonsensical because the world isnt just the western world (who have been the ones mostly sanctioning Iran in the last decades), and more recently a subset of that western world that is still willing to support USA's non sensical 3rd (I might be missing one) war in the middle east
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