Recent content by Cliftonite

The way I see it- Pakistan has got Kashmir all wrong. Much ado about nothing. For many on PDF, getting Kashmir seems to be Pakistan's raison d'etre. Kashmiris want independence. I don't get why Pakistan needs to spend so much resources on a small valley that doesn't even want to join us. P.S...

Thanks man. One of the sane members of PDF told me about this place.

Leftist separatism was big in the 60s and 70s. PLO, IRA, Basque separatism, Vietcong. Today's dynamic is different. Right wing nationalism veering towards fascism is in vogue today a la the 1930s and 1940s.

Russia's ultimate goal is the straits of Dardanelles and Bosphorus. That's what I see. The world is coming a full circle where it was hundred years ago. The western powers back in 1920s also wanted to divide Turkey and get control over the Bosphorus. Good that Turkey is fighting back.