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Zeihan and Friedman and their ilk are only useful insofar as they are basically telling you what the Western political apparatus’ view of current events is. When they venture outside of that and try to give their own takes and not what they are being fed, they inevitably sound like, pardon the...

Portuguese drive to search for an alternate route was driven by a desire to reduce expenses as the middle-men involved in the land route were taking too much. This is different to the principles at play here.

From an economical and logistical perspective, an India-Middle-East-Europe route is probably the worst proposition among the 3 available ones. As @TheInsider mentioned, the existing route through Suez is basically the superior one compared to the alternatives but even then a route trying to go...

I'm going to repeat again - I don't expect a military operation. I don't want a military operation. I want this just to be skillful use of saber rattling to make Armenia scared enough to finally come to the negotiating table after they refused us. People here who seem to be almost salivating at...

Please no…no war.

I’m assuming they understand that Karabakh isn’t Armenian territory and therefore they have fuck all reason to intervene?

I'm gonna be fair to System of a Down and assume that not all of them are unhinged morons like Serj. Mind you I'm only basing this on a brief clip I once saw of Serj going off about how we Azerbaijanis are all one step removed from Satan and both Daron and John looked visibly uncomfortable with...

There won't be a war. At most these are shows of force to discourage Karabakh separatists from starting anything. This has been the approach several times now and it has generally managed to work to defuse situations because the average Armenian in Karabakh isn't that keen to become a martyr...

1) Of course you can. Quite a few former communist states were exactly this way. What you just described with private property falls under the purview of economic leftism. In terms of social ideology, USSR adhered to many traditionalist views. They tried going the "freedom to do anything"...

Many of those who do so tend to be on the Russian payroll but even aside from that there it's not particularly ironic. The USSR may have been economically leftist but it was overwhelmingly culturally right-wing with only minor left-wing elements. There is a popular tendency among American...

I mean, it's California. Using it as a measure of American quality of life is practically cheating, their local authorities are basically 99% batshit insane progressives.

What @Sanchez said, let's keep it on topic. I mean I personally hope for Indian weapons provided to Armenia to suck but that's just patriotic interest not mockery. I wouldn't count on it but it would make fighting a hell of a lot easier. And unfortunately it looks like a fight is imminent...

The wording is funny. Yeah, in “preparation for an offensive”. It’s not like they started arming people there specifically so Armenia could try and push Azerbaijan into responding. Armenians really don’t appreciate how lucky they are to be able to break agreements and still have people...

I know that but her symbol was not that of the crescent moon and star.

The crescent and star is not a symbol of Artemis, her symbol is a bow and arrow (which makes sense because she's a goddess of the hunt) which sometimes gets confused with a crescent moon and arrow due to how simplistically it was drawn. The late Byzantine era also used a moon and sun symbol IIRC...

I'm trying to be nice here but, ahem, what kind of engineering expertise could Saudi Arabia potentially contribute that the other 3 don't already have? Their only card to play is deep pockets and I don't think the other 3 are that desperate for cash.

I remember an interview with an Azerbaijani commander who reflected on the second Qarabag war and he said that one of our army's weak points and where the vast majority of our losses came from (especially early on) is Armenian artillery. So here's hoping that our army has remedied that weakness...

EU does a lot of stupid things, doesn't mean you must follow them. You might be confusing demoralization with desensitization. Disney is run by crazy ideologues nowadays but I suspect this has more to do with their increasingly awful financial situation. A lot of Disney projects have been...

And now it makes sense. Well played, Russia, well played.

No offense bud but is this your first time on the Internet or something? Videos of violent encounters going down have been around for years. And frankly I'd rather have news media post direct proof of what has gone down than trying to BS me with some mealy-mouthed "interpretation" of what went...