The West Block: Israel-Iran tensions spark fear of possible use of nuclear weapons

What are the risks of a greater escalation between Iran and Israel after more retaliatory strikes are exchanged between the two countries? ‘The West Block’ host Mercedes Stephenson interviews the Atlantic Council’s Jonathan Panikoff, the former deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East at the National Intelligence Council, about the possibility of a greater conflict between Iran and Israel, fears over the potential use of nuclear weapons, and more.

Plus, the Liberal government unveiled its federal budget last week. The budget includes $57 billion in new spending, which the Liberals plan to offset with an additional $18 billion in new revenues from changes to the capital gains tax. Stephenson speaks with John Manley, former Liberal finance minister, and Lisa Raitt, former Conservative deputy leader, about the proposed capital gains tax changes, the housing crisis, and how the budget might impact the Liberals’ polling numbers.

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[Sandeep]

They did not raise the capital gain tax by 17% … they just increased the inclusion rate for taxable capital gain income to 67% from 50%……US already has 100% inclusion rate … the reason your startup’s would go to US from Canada is not the capital gain tax changes … it’s more fundamental issues like super expensive labour, oligopolistic markets, increasing low skilled immigrants while shortage of useful workers….

[winstonsmith]

The reason the world has avoided Nuclear War is because cause of lessons learned at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Seems the Modern generation have forgotten those lessons.

[devildevil]

There is a word for this called complicit for everything

[doom]

I don’t know what house cleaner can afford a second property LOL

[rezakarampour]

Watch here : ' IRAN LIE same as IRAQ LIE '

[winstonsmith]

For those who don’t know the history of the Middle East. Hold my beer.

History of Middle East
Wars Fought in the Middle East Timeline 499 BCE-Present Day: 1, 525 Years of War
499 BCE to 449 BCE-Greco-Persian Wars. Location: Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Aegean
335 BCE to 323 BCE-Wars of Alexander the Great:Greek City States against Persian Empire
66 BCE to 217 CE-Roman-Parthian War:Greek City States against Persian Empire421 to 422
Roman-Sassanid War (Part of the Roman-Persian Wars:Greek City States against Persian Empire
484 to 572 Samaritan Revolts: Samaria (Israel), Byzantine Empire (Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean)
494 to 534 Basus War:Fought between: Taghlib Tribe against Bakur Tribe Arabia (Arabian Peninsula)
502 to 506 Anastasian War (Part of the Roman-Persian Wars:Armenia), Upper Mesopotamia (Turkey, Syria)
541 to 562 Lazic War/Colchic War: Byzantine Empire against Sassanid Persian Empire
572 to 628 Byzantine–Sassanid War: Byzantine Empire against Sassanid Persian Empire
642 to 737 First Arab–Khazar War: Khazar Khaganate against Umayyad Caliphate
780 to 1180 Byzantine-Arab Wars: Byzantine Empire against Arabs Levant (Syria), Egypt, North Africa

Crusades: Christians vs Arabs
August 1096 to August 1099 First Crusade (Part of The Crusades)
March 1147 to April 1149 Second Crusade (Part of The Crusades)
May 1189 to 9th October 1192 Third Crusade/Kings’ Crusade (Part of The Crusades)
October 1202 to 13th April 1204 Fourth Crusade (Part of The Crusades)
October 1217 to July 1221 Fifth Crusade (Part of The Crusades)
1228 to 17th March 1229 Sixth Crusade (Part of The Crusades
May 1271 to December 1272 Prince Edward’s Crusade/Ninth Crusade (Part of The Crusades)
4th April 1291 to 18th May 1291 Fall of Acre/Last Crusade (Part of The Crusade
1380s to 17th February 1405 Conquests of Timur (Tamerlane)
1521 to 6th September 1566 Wars of Suleiman the Magnificent:Hungary, Persia (Iran), Iraq, Moldova

Modern Middle East Wars: Arabs vs Israel /UN Security Forces
October to 1973, 24th October Yom Kippur War
1990, 2nd August to 1991, 3rd March Gulf War Kuwait, UN Security Forces against Iraq
1994, 4th May to 1994, 7th July Yemen Civil War:Republic of Yemen, United States, Jordan, Qatar, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, India against Democratic Republic of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, Kuwait
2003, 20th March to 2011, 11th December Iraq War:USA, UK, (multi-national forces withdrawn before end of conflict) against Al-Qaeda
Location: Iraq, Syria
2008, December 28th to 2009, January 18th Gaza War (Part of the Arab-Israeli Conflict) Fought between: Gaza Strip against Israel
2011, 15th March, ongoing Syrian Civil WarFought between: Bashar al-Assad government against Rebel forces including ISIS
2015, 24th July, Ongoing Kurdish-Turkish Conflict: South East Turkey, Northern Syria, Northern Iraq
2019, 5th May, ongoing Persian Gulf Crisis Fought between: United States and allies against Iran
Oct 2023 to Present: Back to Arab States/Iran vs Israel.

[devildevil]

There's a word for this called complicity, complicit, hypocrite, hypocrisy, with IDF

[celosiapigeon]

Nonsense about the capital gains tax does not help anyone.

[marcinhibner]

Technically it's to relieve the cycles of higher ratios of isotopes as it continues to escalate in placement of energy builded up into demand on need of it all towards positioning of supply in direction of energy use in compressed and filtered out ratios with demand on cycles of energy in time.,

[bjorn____]

Israel didn't start this war, and has every right to defend themselves against terrorists, and why is that Israel is the only country in the world not allowed to defend themselves 💙🤍💙