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EU is a very different setup to NATO. Just like UN is very different setup to EU.....so all kind of wiggle room clauses pop up in multilateral/international organisations wherever things are not clearly defined and its "forum/economics first" setup. NATO is quite specific defined corridor on...

How would that even be possible though? NATO is one time entry....once you are in you are in. Any ejection process should have been stipulated in the charter (and it would apply to any member incl Turkey)....but it hasnt. There is thus no "trust but verify" mechanism possible here on the...

Thoughts? @Jackdaws et al.

I hold rogue one as a very good effort I enjoyed. Mandalorian the same. Anyway you first watch this kenobi series.... I just saw a review with ton of spoilers in it (so I wont spoil it for you) ....but I am not going to watch this series as they went with the same ole same ole that ruined the...

India is different context, set of challenges and issues....that are off topic. You can bring it up in the india coffee thread etc if you want to talk about that stuff and we can check the foundational credibility of knowledge and logic on it. I am merely pointing out things like this...

There will now be the typical whataboutism versus Li Keiqiang unfortunate inconvenience. CCP blah propaganda vs Li Keqiang is member of CCP.....which button to press? A rational Chinese person (rare online in english speaking places) would pause.....but spambot types are predictably stuck on...

The hard truth is that this is the much higher leverage US enjoys on Pakistan compared to India. American citizens died in the 26/11 terror attacks.....which is why/how the FBI got involved. Pakistan's actions within AFG (at detriment to US forces) and then of course OBL/Abbotabad sanctuary...

Not very long to be significant. Algeria could probably keep going for a while longer since it has the larger economy and more overall stable economic liquidity (from its energy industry)....but I doubt it will be enough to make any headway into Morocco core areas. It will be punitive limited...

If the PRC/CCP truly believed that, they would have simply had one of their state banks open a bank account with Carrie Lam when she came under US sanction. Instead she had to be paid with briefcases of cash in a most humiliating way. Same thing happening again w.r.t Russia right now.....what...

Typical 50 cent spammers copy paste one liner and graphics without actually reading the underlying reports (and analysis/discussion) they are from...including their actual applicability. This is why you get dissonance between what they spam post and what their own Premier Li Keqiang said about...

Simply put, Morocco main cities/population is concentrated (to coastline mostly) compared to its total landmass....compared to Ukraine. This also is the feature for Algeria too (and extends into libya, egypt etc as well). Putting a critical node of something further away from...

Both are equally potentially dangerous. The high water mark of danger is the male elephant in "musth" as there are huge amount of hormones pumping in such a large animal (testosterone can be 60 times higher than normal....and we are talking about a multi-ton animal). The word musth...

In my case, 65 always had equal prominence w.r.t 71 in my formative years (my dad was the near singular bridge to most of this, so thats pretty different to popular media in India I suppose, something I am in large part removed from still). In fact it was nearly a continuous story arc of...

Was it really this number? 3000? Reports in late april (about 2 months later) state about 1300 launches or so till that point....so definitely in initial phase it was not this number then. The issue with Ukraine is its very different context. It has a very large array of nodes (for its...

Agree with you on most points here. Yup I forgot about the MTCR control to <300 km range. Looking at map, this puts most of Morocco's western seaboard and critical nodes out of reach of Algeria (from initial starting points).

This new star wars stuff, constantly tries to provide filler bridge material and it ruins parts of the canon IMO. Vader is very specific (in a New Hope) in saying "I've been waiting for you Obi Wan.....We meet again at last, the circle is NOW complete, when I left you I was but the learner, now...

Nice picture captured: @Ryder @crixus et al.

Azerbaijan was in very close proximity to Armenia range wise, so there was little benefit to iskandar compared to say regular rocket artillery. It ended up being more nominal deterrence value at most....and Azerbaijan called it out (especially given the specific tactics Azerbaijan developed in...

Never underestimate how little neo-marxists actually trust in people (they purport to support) to discuss, debate and vote upon things. They deeply hate: - the legislative process - clear definition of branches of govts in the republic's founding and why this is important to preserve -...