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As long as one understands that countries that appear to get by with very little are actually paying a huge price in the destroyed futures of its coming generations. Stealing from the future to get by today is a losing deal.

It will be interesting to see how far China can be pushed in this matter.

So if UK takes over the entire North Sea, lanes and all, it would be okay for the other nations in the area? :D

No, really, what China does here is important too.

Doesn't unilaterally claiming exclusive control of said sea also count as a destabilizing act?

Good questions, but my answers would not be palatable to many here (and elsewhere). :D

LOL. Right, the schizophrenia of claiming thousands of years of history, but then starting the indoctrination from MBQ's invasion is quite amusing. :D

Turkey (and Iran) are not good examples in this regard. Neither was ever colonized. Both had expansive empires themselves.

That shithole is drowning in its own excreta. It has dropped in Alexa rankings from 20k to below 42K, roughly. It is now largely irrelevant, and headed for oblivion, unless something changes, you know. Not really, What the foreign observer sees as off putting is only right and righteous when...

The information here is great from a historic point of view, but largely irrelevant, considering that it pertains to a country that disintegrated in 1971. The western fragment had a duly elected civilian government for the first few years of its existence, then the first dictatorship was...

Only if the locals are included in the development. Leave them out, or include only as a token, and all of that work goes to waste. The CPEC as a trade channel is presently entirely controlled by the usual suspects.

Let us keep in mind that the fissures in Karachi that make it susceptible are also there in Balochistan. Yes, an alternate route may offer some redundancy, but it will never make up for the social fissures that run deep within the entire country.

The only thing more dangerous than the periodic dictatorships - the gifts that keep on giving - is the conscious and dishonest effort to revise history to hide the real source of the villainy. Something about not learning from history and repeating it comes to mind. :D

Because they are abandoned plants? Detroit looks like an old war zone TBH. Scary. Some residential areas are attempting a comeback, but it is faltering still.

It may be instructive to recall how the MQM was created to act as a tool to cut down PPP on its home grounds. The rest, as they say, is history.

Yes, but remember what goes must come down, one way or another. In a car, you just coast to the shoulder in case of powerplant failure. :D

That is what is called life at the bleeding edge. :D

Not only that, the wheelbase is short, the ergonomics are terrible, and it will break traction if you floor it above a hundred miles an hour. Great fun! :D

The Cobra is a VERY difficult car to drive fast, and almost impossible in its 427 form. The earlier 289s were a bit more manageable.

Easy enough for me, I drink both. :D (And both hot and cold.)