The steel consupmtion hardly telly anything about military capability, espacially knowing that China is using construction sector as a motor for economic growth hence the number of empty apartments in China.
If you tell me that China can beat US in a head on war then whatever floats your boat.
The US didnt fight Afghanistan, it fought Taliban, Conventional and Assymetric war are two pair of shoes.
They absolutely crushed Saddams Iraq which was stronger than Agfhanistan in any shape or form, it just depends on how much the US wants to invest in a victory.
Thats more like a proxy war than a head on war.
Im talking about a war like US vs. Japan, ask the mighty Imperial Japanese army how invincible the US was, even before the bomb.
Nobody is able to beat US in a conventional head on war, there is really nothing else to say.
But if anything then China is fast closing the gap, credit where its due.
Everybody colonized and settled at some point in history, Greeks and Kurds themselves are not native to Anatolia.
But the topic is not Turkey is guess and the difference is that Israeli Palestinian conflics is regularly flaring up due to settlement politics of Israel which creates hate towards...
Disclaimer: People who know me know that im by no means anti Israel and certainly not anti semitic, the following statement is purely my observation.
Honestly modern Israels location is really bad, the geography has nothing to do with todays Isarelis apart from being historicaly jewish place...
Am i the only one thinking about a active Russian involvement?
Technically speaking this situation gives Russia the opportunity, strange things are going on.
This map is made by Greeks, not rest of the world, currently there is a dispute on borders and both sides have their own claims but thats doesnt mean rest of the world is supporting Greek claims.
And since when does The Hague solve territorial disputes? I thought they only go after war criminals...