https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/world/middleeast/us-troops-deployments.html
Nearly 72,000 Uncle Sam's troops deployed in Mid East (excluding Afghanistan,Turkey) to protect those nations from each other. Still not enough....now France wants to pitch in.... Seems even 3rd world nations in...
It terms of territory UK with its dominion's (Australia-Canada-New Zealand) & Russia still has the largest land mass in the planet. In a way these empires are still alive...
What a mess ! Turks fighting Kurds. Iranians at odds with Arabs. Arabs fighting among themselves, Israeli's and all others..... they need to learn from Europe (getting along with neighbors is win-win for all...)
Interesting. Seems even back then, illiterate, desert bedouins were not trusted by anyone. Same is the case today. Killing each other or getting killed by others foolishly without much understanding on world politics....
Seems Saudi's are interested in creating more enemies (Turks-Iranians-Kurds etc). No shortage of enemies....There goes a saying "Fools have more enemies than allies..."
The question was "What is preventing Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon from forming an alliance to protect their sovereignty and deter such acts.........". Israel has cutting edge military hardware backed by Uncle Sam providing intelligence. Only way to deter would be to unify the ranks and confront...
It seems Israel doesn't give a dime about breaching sovereignty of it's neighbors. It carries out strikes at will. Puzzling is, victims of such acts, themselves are silent in the international arena. What is preventing Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon from forming an alliance to protect their sovereignty...
Japan did the same to the Chinese. Ended up killing 20 million of them (Chinese estimate). China seeks world sympathy for Japanese atrocities, yet now it seems they are doing the same to others. History repeats itself ......
Putin is a crafty politician. Doubt he has mush love for Muslims. Moscow has nearly 2 million Muslims but only 4 mosques. Putin's cronies won't allow even a single more. Then there is Caucasus.....
After inquisition all mosques were converted to churches or destroyed including that one in cordova. So if it was a catholic church, Russia might just issue a statement. But this was a orthodox church, he'll loose Russia. West will go after him like bull dogs.