Bongs had one job to do versus the Dutch, and failed at it....and you wont hear the end of it. (Dutch people love the david vs goliath stuff in general)
This is perfect example of prevention being better than the cure.
You had one job BD! *Facepalm*
Out of interest, has Turkiye made progress on doing this with China? It is very imperative one to do for any country in world wanting sound geopolitical investment in the future.
However the politics ultimately shapes out in large countries like China and India, there needs to be a bedrock...
Actually @TR_123456 is one of the few Turks, maybe the only Turk in this forum that understands Cricket to make sense of the magnitude of that score I posted lol.
Its kind of like a heavyweight matchup and the knockout comes very drastically and brutally in the 2nd half...when everyone...
Well how can I put this mildly. They (CCP) were quite willing to work with "US allied" (SEATO et al.) countries as long as they were anti-India.
They were also quite willing to work against countries that were communist (that were pro-India or pro-Soviet etc)...even invading Vietnam in 1979...
Against China, certainly the case. But there is a caveat in that China is different to the CCP (though there is now sizeable intersection in the reality, where even a 10% intersection of these two is a considerable one and its far higher than that in reality).
Against the CCP, PLA et al (and...
Moved the off topic posts to general geopolitics thread. Can continue there folks, thanks.
https://defencehub.live/threads/combat-war-geopolitics-history-and-analysis.488/page-23#post-298436
India fundamentally realises China's size (and vice versa) and the historical legacy from this.
These two cannot be pitted against each other in some zero sum existential way by relative new entrant that is small in the larger story, no matter how powerful it may be.... (though matters are...
A very good fair-minded approach I agree with. Cultivating a corps of "Indophile" professionals in Turkiye's intelligentsia and honing the best of them within foreign service as their careers etc.
This approach should be done with any large significant country for Turkiye (India, China are just...