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Look like the “off brand” groups have formed in the region. Are any of these groups majority Sunni / possibly Anbaris? The danger is they start small and quickly snowball, picking up a lot of people. The government in Iraq could fall and the US maybe pulled back into Iraq in a large way; a third...

Some of our congresspersons have signed on to this here in New York.

These protests need to be turned into political action in these countries.

They are throwing shit against the wall hoping something sticks.

Now they are going down the “WMD” narrative. https://news.sky.com/story/hamas-terrorists-were-carrying-instructions-on-how-to-make-chemical-weapons-israeli-president-claims-12990547

If the US state department is confirmed (by its own employee) as a bias “mediator” this doesn’t bode well for relations with other countries. Or with NGOs in other countries. Israel probably switching to artillery because they are getting a rush supply of tens of thousands of artillery shells...

Hamas is the pretext, Second Nakba is actual goal. What part of the West Bank does Hamas control? https://x.com/fbhutto/status/1716095358915203431?s=46

ML-1 goes to just past Peshawar, it can connect to Afghanistan from there. The Central Asians (particularly Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) along with the Afghans plan to invest $5 billion to build the trans-afghan railway. The military knows it can’t raise its budget unless the economy grows, if it...

https://x.com/mohdmahfooznuri/status/1715660484517761373?s=46 The process of dying is not quick. Many struggle to try to stay alive. Warning, please don’t view if you can’t handle it. (Mods please allow this so people can see fully what’s happening)...

This so how every interview should be done, with this sound in the background, as loud as is actually happening. Let the world hear what it’s like being in Gaza.

I’m saying even if the Pakistani companies are worthless at increasing exports, trans-shipment of raw afghan minerals to Gwadar (or Karachi) could fund this rail project on a sustainable basis over a long enough period of time. If Pakistan gets its act together, it could ship domestic products...

The first explosion showed it, but I don’t think the world truly understands what a 1000 JDAMs a day on a city does to a population. Palestinian activists in Britain should be interviewing people that are still around that survived the blitz, so they can explain to western audiences (because...

How does Azeri oil get to market?

A good point by Peter Zeihan; the American hostages and the American Dual nationals (on both sides) plays a big part in the sustained U.S. interests of this conflict. Hard to see the hostages making it out alive if the effort to get them levels everything.

165 kmph is perfect cost-benefit speed for a country lien Pakistan where ability to pay for higher speed trickers is not possible, unlike Indonesia. I also can’t understand why it would take 16 years, especially for China to build. It’s mostly flat track. Unless this project is being managed by...

They are short term thinkers giving his faction of the elite another go of it, in hopes of attracting FDI. It’s a gamble that foreigners will “invest”, but look out for terms of any deal made under nawaz. It will be one sided against Pakistan’s long term economic interests (such as sell Reko-Diq...

That’s if the local populations make removal of foreign troops a requirement of the social contract with their rulers.

Ironically, even if all of Hamas’ official cadre are wiped out, the last few weeks of atrocities have ensure reconstitution of Hamas (under a new name) won’t be a problem. The Israelis have left no room for talking, prior to October 7, and post-October 7, unless the US reigns them in and back to...

China’s looking to go big with the Afghans, so it may not be as impractical as it sounds, especially if ROI will come from transporting minerals, all the way to Gwadar. If some of the mines are in southern Afghanistan, the Quetta-Sukkur rail line could be upgraded as well...

Not quite, unless this thing really cooks off with the Houthis. The problem is a no name splinter group could attack from an odd location. No affiliation with any of the major groups. Sure they’ll be wiped out but the conflict will be expanded. The retaliation will infuriate the locals of that...