That's an interesting point! I'm not so sure just how grass roots is the support for strict Wahhabism in Saudi-Arabia, though. But there surely are th...
Years ago the British parliament studied the issue of the US leaving. I think that will wake up finally Europeans put effort in their own defense indu...
Well, look at the topic and the name of this thread. Is it somehow a knee-jerk reaction to try to stay with the topic??? Iranians have their Islamic r...
Second try... The PLO wasn't (and isn't) Islamist. And it's difficult to say what the Palestinian liberation movement would be then if it wouldn't res...
I think there will be interesting military history written about this, but I think it will take years. Military professional magazines might have a go...
Well, how did the Israeli independence movement look like to the British, who were fighting them? It's a war, an insurgency. Here's footage of the Bri...
Seems like the Houthis have tried swarming or similar attack, that the US CENTCOM called "complex": See here Seems like US merchant vessels went throu...
That's the way Israel and Hamas and Israel and the Palestinians have fought for quite a long time now. For example, warfare in Lebanon has gone on for...
Well, if the anti-Westerners have the idea of viewing things extremely black and white, I also urge to make the distinction between Iran and the IS / ...
Remember that the Islamic Republic of Iran has the heritage and, at least officially, the aims of the Islamic revolution to promote the Muslim World. ...
Yet let's have a reality check here: Houthi's have not sunk any ship yet and except for the hostage crew, nobody has been killed. And I think this is ...
Is Donald Duck real? No. Is the Walt Disney cartoon character Donald Duck in pictures, cartoons and in costumes made depicting the duck real? Yes, in ...
The Royal Navy has already shot down Houthi drones and missiles and the French Navy is already escorting French cargo ships through the Bab el Mandeb....
Or concepts in general. The arguments for physicalism as the OP asked are best when we simply limit the definition of existence to only something mate...
The biggest issue is that Americans don't want a war. It's the last thing they want. Only some 9/11 will push them eagerly to attack Iran. Yet Afghani...
Like a disaster as everybody has for years anticipated it to be. Basically the US could simply mount a bombing campaign, something similar to Operatio...
It's not about the reason for ethnic cleansing. It's the act of ethnic cleansing itself that is the issue here. Or you assume that just big enough ter...
Well, there is the possibility that here IS is used as a proxy, just as Iran is using the Houthis as proxy. Iran learnt to use proxies after using it'...
The question is, if Israel is part of the West and it's really looking at the possibility of ethnic cleansing, what does it tell about the West? Last ...
Here's US oil production and consumption. You can see that net imports have taken a dramatic fall after the the shell oil / fracking revolution. Now t...
Many uphold the idea that Israel is Western democracy and a beacon of light in an area dominated by more or less totalitarian states. What I think is ...
That the Saudi's cut oil production hardly is here something that is weakening this alliance: OPEC embargo hit the US far more back in the 1970's, yet...
That is incorrect, @"Tzeentch" Saudi-US relationship has been quite firm. The countries do have had a defense treaty since 1951. And the US has come t...
Yet not as Egypt, Saudi-Arabia and UAE. Ethiopia (a) doesn't have US bases or US troops in the country and (b) doesn't have Western / US equipment as ...
FYI, here's a video of Chinese and Indian border guards having a fight. Border skirmishes between the two aren't ancient history. https://www.youtube....
A more thorough report about the Houthi attacks on the Bab el Mandeb and where now things are going. In the international sea trade the links between ...
Indeed it is, so at least you are honest. :up: Obviously you don't know the history starting from the collapse of the Soviet Union and all the ways th...
As the bannings thread closed again, I'll continue here. It's true that when there's couple of hot political topics that bring up emotions (George Flo...
Or the will. Just to give an example where a country treated insurgents as criminals and their supporters still as citizens is "the Troubles" in North...
I confess to be one of the perpetrators of posting and continuing threads that aren't philosophical, but political. The reason is at least to me obvio...
Just asking: Why is it so hard not to demand ethnic cleansing? Palestinians aren't even remotely close to Axis powers of the WW2. Terror bombing and k...
If Ukraine really would be making the sacrifice only for American (elite) perceived interests, then I guess they would have folded even quicker than t...
This is so typical, even in an Philosophy Forum. Where does this eagerness come from to justify and hail one side from another when both sides could b...
So... The media insisted that a "counterattack" that it forecasted didn't achieve much without air superiority, material advantage in artillery or any...
As there is a legal definition for Genocide, do note that it isn't similar to what the Third Reich perpetrated and what we know as the Holocaust. For ...
Is it lost? Has Putin got all the territories he formally annexed? Have Russian got the Western side of the Dnipro? Or is this your Pro-Russian rambli...
Netanyahu might go at some time, but I think the real problem is the extreme right, people like Smotrich and others. They won't go away and the modera...
At the first place: why is ordinary life so bad? Aren't we here for others too? Isn't life something about continuation of life? Aren't hardships, dis...
At least the New Testament has the great insight that it has several Gospels, hence someone clearly understood that the written story of the life of J...
And the most obvious reason for antisemitism isn't usually talked about: it is Matthew 27:24–25, from the Bible: I genuinely think that this is the mo...
Well, even if I've met several intelligence officers, I think this is a more of a case of how these organizations operate. The individual intelligence...
Yes, I agree. Yet why it was so successful is the same thing: such a strike had never happened in the US. I do remember prior to 9/11 how lax the secu...
Why on Earth praise the BRICs? You think those Great Powers are different or better, or some kind of champions of human rights and against genocide? Y...
I'm not so sure that this was done by intention as Israelis blame Netanyahu for this. If the IDF would have been ready, it could have stopped the atta...
??? Well, I'm a Finn, not a German. And my country wasn't directly involved with the displacement of of the European Jewry (as our Jews fought alongsi...
In my view languages can indeed put to a comparative better-worse list of some sort. Unfortunately! (I'm not sure if this has already been said, but a...
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