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Whoever is in the government of the country, can cut off ties with America... and then experience all the downstream consequences of that. It requires a kind of cognitive dissonance, but I wouldn't specify it as hypocrisy. If anyone is forming a distinction between America and Israel, that...

For an intelligent philosopher or Muslim who can think, I would highly recommend Hasan Spiker. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge University. He's written some good books, that I have periodically attempted and struggled to read given my level on these topics...

From his instagram, seems he's more of a syncretist between Tengrism and Bektashism.

sunni islam and shia islam are fundamentally different in regard to religious centralization. You would never get a sunni ayatollah, or sunni theocracy. Erdogan has had 26 years of power, and to date he has not attempted to discard Turkiye's system of civil law for a religious law. Erdogan does...

Renaissance Technologies (Jim Simons) pretty much always beat the market. Essentially a mathematicians fund. "During the 2008 Financial Crisis, while Berkshire's market value fell about 31.8% and the S&P 500 plunged 37%, Medallion recorded an astounding ~80% positive net return." "From 2001...

The hijab ban and other "culture wars" talking points, the magnitude of the role of Turkiye in re-taking Karabakh, etc etc. these are all deliberately divisive talking points and not worth the time of day. Someone taking out the time of day to lift a finger and bring them up, ought to consider...

How can Azerbaijan be one nation two states with Turkiye, and not have a side (or prioritization) between Turkiye and Israel. Turkiye should always take precedent over israel, given a conflict or escalation between the two. Right now it is Israel taking the initiative to move towards conflict...

If you look at a city like Karachi. Its not able to get autonomy and really take off because the corrupt sindh government wants to siphon its resources parasitically. There no longer being a centralized sindh government would partially solve that problem. The areas of the country that want to...

It is important to sufficiently devolve powers away from the corrupt and disconnected, to the actual stakeholders of resource allocations. Localizing governance, "subsidiarity", could actually be a helpful means to that. Its not a debate of localization vs competence/repsonsiveness. Those two...

We have the gold standard of municipal governance and autonomy, and special economic zones right across the border in China. However the feudal lords have had too much power for too long, and no interest in anything positive. Just petty thieves. There is a need for a strong technocratic...

This one looks pretty wild:

If the agreement requires Saudi Arabia to shift its defence arrangements completely from the US to Turkiye/Pakistan, then it could make sense. If Saudi Arabia will continue to host US troops / equipment, and allow them to operate from their soil, the agreement is strategically incoherent in...

I'd say with the US's difficulty replenishing interceptors, and the difficulty maintaining the injections of oil reserves, both sides are in a bind.

It's all theatre directed mainly towards the domestic American audience. They are trying to portray Israel as being having less influence and control than it does. Note that he's speaking on Fox News. From the statement by Trump, to this media outing by Netenyahu, you should assume that it is...

Just because Zionists demonize something, like Islamist groups, doesn't mean they actually find it undesirable or un-preferable. It is a very common tactic to create the conditions to justify your own intervention. You can observe this throughout imperial/hegemonic histories. Simply put, they...