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Back in the day, the Evil Russian Commy Empire was expanding, including southward seeking a warm water port. That's when the USA offered a WWII shattered world a surprising deal called the Bretton Woods Agreement. Rather than ruling over most of the world in an American Military Empire as...

Most likely a Syrian opposition group. Turkey doesn't usually target Assad's forces. Where was the Russian Air defence?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/5/syrian-military-college-hit-in-drone-attack https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/syria-military-academy-drone-attack-homs

It depends if you want BRICS to be able to do anything or be just another talk fest. The more countries, whether Arab or not, the more internal disputes and less coherence in policy. First get the current BRICS functioning effectively on the world stage beyond being a photo opportunity and...

And if it could be reasonably shown that it could benefit Pakistan, perhaps even lifting millions out of poverty? Probably also helping with food security that will be a vast problem as Pakistans population rises to a projected 440 million by 2050? With currently existing and burgeoning examples...

What exactly do you have against PDF members that you would want to (statistically speaking) absolutely ruin or even end their lives? 😉...

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3370802/milley-says-ukraine-has-leadership-morale-to-beat-russia/

It will take some work... https://tribune.com.pk/story/2427592/beyond-the-brink-pakistans-population-explosion https://www.brecorder.com/news/amp/40102732 With a 440 million projected population and continued net food importation even at todays mere 225 million, Pakistan like much of ME...

Actually NATO was looking dysfunctional and perhaps headed for the dustbin of history. UNTILL Russia decided to reinvigorate it immensely by first attacking Ukraine and then not winning in a few days. Nothing has given NATO more of a renewed reason for existence, a revived sense of purpose...

The Germans were given a choice at the beginning of the special operation. Abandon your NATO allies allies and don't support Ukraine and all that nice natural gas will just keep flowing, or don't do so and the cheap gas that has kept your heavy industry competitive will stop. The Germans decided...

The way to destroy an organization from being effective is to just bring in more and more members.

Russia, even if weakened, is likely to fight for the likes of Vladivostok much harder than say Chechnya. (There are of course also those that suggest that China itself won't be a single unified state by 2030 however that can be the subject of another debate.) But yes, to your point, the Han...

Depends if you see a strong Russia as a good thing. Not sure if it will happen or about this timing prediction but the logic of the argument is that Russia has many peoples, ethnicities and imposed territories within its borders, especially its outlying regions. Now that Russia has been...

Great little start! However, just before we break out in wild street parties, let's look at the slightly larger picture...

Economic influence will be determined to a large extent by Demographics. China is in the dividend phase of demographic transition. The downward slope of that transition which China is just leaping into will be exceedingly painful. 1.4 Billion Chinese citizens is great. 800 million people...

Interesting. In addition, allegedly, in recent years, almost 70% of Azerbaijan's weapons and weapons systems have also been supplied by Israel. It would be a fascinating battlefield test of performance if, heaven forbid, Azerbaijan and say Iran were ever to come to blows over the Zangezur...

Forget foreign support, despite sympathies to the Kurds, neither country will likely want a militarily weaker Türkiye for geostrategic reasons. However I am wondering if a threat to Türkiye might come, in time, from the greater Kurdish fertility rate compared to the Turkish one...

Given that, allegedly, in recent years almost 70% of Azerbaijan's weapons purchases are from Israel - a huge array of sophisticated weaponry - I was wondering what on Earth Azerbaijan would be wanting to purchase next. But then, just today, I see they are not limiting their shopping list to just...

In liue of a translation, any chance for a basic points summary?

Hmmm... maybe, but I'm pretty sure The West can multi-task its attention on more than one state, my friend. 😉 IMO, the USA is going to be sharply focused on China for some time. I'm also not convinced of Afghanistan being exactly allies of NATO even if they have a common enemy. It's probably...