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I might be wasting my time over here (I have hardly been active the past few years), but at least I know what I am talking about.

GWXP is the kind of a guy you see lingering around on forums in which topics such as history, geopolitics and military affairs are discussed by people who in reality have no idea what they are talking about. These are the kind of people who probably have played virtual games in which war and...

Still having reading comprehension problems, I see. Which part of my you are using 'fallacious arguments' part of my comment did you not understand? Of course Erdogan met with Friedman; the latter claims that Turkey is going to become a quasi superpower in the future, which applies to Turkish...

You made a claim that Friedman predicted something before it occurred, so I asked you when he exactly made that claim. Read again what I wrote. I said structural problems, which means that it could have serious long-term repercussions for the Turkish economy. If you are going to use this...

You are exactly sounding as the wannabe strategist that Stratfor applies to. Turkey's economy is struggling today, and has enormous structural problems that could jeopardize its growth and size in the foreseeable future. Moreover, the argument that Turkey, due to its economic projection, is...

You are making a joke out of yourself by inserting Stratfor in this discussion. It is a think-tank for wannabe strategists that make all kinds of bold- and far-fetched claims that are out of touch with reality. The owner of Stratfor is George Friedman, who has been wrong on pretty much every...

Actually, the snapback mechanism was a French proposal. Here the former French ambassador to the United States, Gérard Araud, in a heated discussion with pro-Israel propagandist and FDD lobbyist Richard Goldberg. Even he thinks the US' argument that is has legal right to active one of the...

I did. You are just too stubborn and proud to admit relevance. European countries do not trade. Their companies do, and the US remains a much more attractive market than Iran. But this is all irrelevant considering the fact that no European country at the moment supports the Trump...

That is not all what matters. Look at the initial discussion. You were arguing that the US is likely going to convince the other permanent members of the UNSC to again support placing sanctions on Iran, basing that highly pessimistic conclusion on two flawed premises: 1) The other countries...

Persuasion is not convincing. The latter suggests moral understanding/agreement. That is not the case over here. The fact to the matter is that the US is basically threatening companies/countries from doing business with Iran by means of sanctions and market exclusion. Are you even aware of...

The Trump administration has not convinced any country in the world to follow the US on its Iranian sanction policy. It is just that no company wants to continue to have economic relations with Iran if that would mean none or less access to the American market. The fact that Russia has once...

The Obama administration was much more diplomatic adept to convince the other members to put sanctions on Iran as part of a strategy to force Iran to the negotiating table. And those days Russia, under leadership of western-orientated and liberal Medvedev, was busy with a naive political...

I doubt that the US will manage to persuade the other permanent members to completely nullify the JCPOA through its snapback provision. There is a reason why Iran is threatening to leave the NPT in such case, which is likely going to be enough reason for the other - specifically European -...

That is not how it works. While the President may lag behind in influence opposed to for instance the IRGC, he can certainly move around Iran's power circles to make his case. Sometimes the system, which continuously balances between (at times) competing institutions that all have their own...

What I tried to say is that the notion of legality does not apply in this case. Even if the US can argue that it is a participant in the original agreement based on the sole fact of textual reference, the matter of being participant is principally a factual matter, or in the case of the UNSC, a...

Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post has published an article in English about the interview with Karimloo. Inside the Iranian IRGC’s secretive drone unit The head of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps drone unit gave a candid and long interview about Iran’s new success with drone...

The UNSC is not a court, it is only an executive body that can make decisions in the form of resolutions. Some of these are legally-binding, but that does not mean that the UNSC can confer legal status to states. The US and other parties to the JCPOA being described as participants is based on...

Seems like Iran struck a chord with the Americans. So salty these yanks.

Iran's First Successful Military Space Launch Should Worry Israel After days of deliberations and evaluations, Israeli and western experts concluded that Iran’s most recent satellite launch, which took place last week, was successful. Iran managed to put four satellites into orbit in the past...

The US increasingly realizes that its static military positions around the world are vulnerable to improved ballistic- and cruise missile technology. Continue to have large concentration of bombers and other weaponry at one place, that fall within the range of your competitor's missiles, would...