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Christ, it's good that we work in such a low-functioning environment, because you're all so soy that any heat and pressure would straight up turn you into tofu.

And yet, an increasing number of establishment strategic analysts warn that Israel could lose this war on Palestinians despite the cataclysmic violence it unleashed since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7. And in provoking the Israeli assault, Hamas may be realizing many of its own political objectives.

By simultaneously staging dramatic, high-profile attacks on more than 100 targets across the country on a single day, lightly armed Vietnamese guerrillas shattered the illusion of success that was being peddled to the US public by the Johnson administration. It signaled to Americans that the war for which they were being asked to sacrifice tens of thousands of their sons was unwinnable.

Hamas’s concept of military victory…is all about driving long-term political outcomes. Hamas sees victory not in one year or five, but from engaging with decades of struggle that increase Palestinian solidarity and increase Israel’s isolation.

American crude oil production reached a fresh all-time high of 13.2mn barrels a day in September, according to figures released last week, more than any other country and accounting for about one in eight barrels of global output.

The US accounts for 80 per cent of the expansion in global oil supply this year, according to the International Energy Agency.

“The US presenting itself as a climate champion at COP is largely a facade, considering it is the biggest oil and gas producer in the world,” said Raena Garcia, senior fossil fuels campaigner at Friends of the Earth.

“I think what we see in the US is the recognition that a balance has to be struck here,” said Darren Woods, Exxon chief executive, who this week attended the UN climate summit for the first time.