ITT: Keyboard jihadis want to pretend they are so good at firing Kalashnikovs into the air, blowing up Arab conscripts with RPGs, and murdering women and children, that Israel has no choice but to uncork the nuclear genie.
If Islamists did it, they'd have taken credit, like terrorists always do. This was by the US or Israel to influence geopolitics and draw attention to the insurgency.
The technical gap between the US and Russia is smaller than generally believed and shrinking every day. Russia has a far superior educational system and its civilian space program makes NASA look like a manufacturer of tin pots. Russia's technical shortcomings are due to the corruption and...
The issue is that Chinese companies are mostly owned by their government and it is not possible to vet every piece of equipment they bring on-site. Any given country that can take an advantage will do so and leverage it. China has the opportunity to mount cameras on high poles and look right...
We already had this business of mysteriously downed passenger jets with MH370. The only question is whether the US or Israel did it, and whether their motivation had to do with geopolitics or who was on the plane. I think it is most likely that their goal is to draw attention to the Islamic...
1. Because Assad allowed Syria to be used as a staging ground for the Iraqi insurgency
2. Because Assad has kept arming Hezbollah despite repeated warnings to stop