There is a country in the Sahel that should be discussed in thread: Sudan. The latest fighting has been because of a power struggle inside the armed f...
You can defend yourself when someone wants to hurt you. But it should be quite clear that the person is really going to attack and hurt you. We know v...
It really comes down to when people think that they will create a better World by killing other people. Be those to be killed the rich, the jews, the ...
Of course, you have the best example of Marxism-Leninism in the example of East-Germany and how it compared to West-Germany. It didn't experience fami...
It should be noted that the ruble has dramatically lost value also to the Chinese yuan and the Indian rupee. About 70% of Russian-Chinese trade is don...
The most important development is typically left out of the "US Coup" narrative: That after few months Ukraine held democratic elections after the rev...
Lavrov has said similar things: But have to say that it's Prigozhin's Wagner, which is active in Mali and CAR makes it all quite puzzling. Hope the id...
Exactly. As the West hasn't seen such rapid growth, we tend to miss just what a huge transformation has happened in China, the Far East and is happeni...
RICO charges for Trump in Georgia. https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/private/s--Fd5d672W--/v1612290995/trump_thug_cigar2.jpg And Trumpism might suc...
Lol :lol: Says the person that has written on nationality sovereignty and sovereign borders this: And... So for you, sovereign borders don't apply ......
1. And Afghanistan is an Islamic Emirate today. 2. Syria is still being lead by Bashar al-Assad with basically the civil war now won by him and neighb...
Again the obsession of puppets. Like what a failure the war on Terror has been? How bad it has gone? Right, thta's American jingoism. Likely you don't...
Actually, there are now less people living in absolute povetry than earlier. Perhaps the reason isn't only capitalism. It might be also that China and...
Because the US didn't attack Niger. Or it hasn't annexed parts of Niger. It asked and was given permission and then build the base starting in 2016 fo...
Just what have you correctly shown? What you have said is "Sorry, but the Niger coup against America, France, and their puppet government has the back...
I guess to fight GWOT. Or whatever under the Biden administration it is called. As it's centrally located in the Sahel and up until now has been rathe...
France and it's relation especial to the Sahel region and Sub-Saharan Africa is still that kind of traditional. China is different. You have to sell s...
What statement of facts? Seems like if previously you couldn't say anything about the reasons of Putins actions, somehow now Nigerien politics is quit...
In other countries the parties promote younger politicians. The older politicians don't take the top jobs, but are OK once their stint on the politica...
What's the obsession with puppets? I think Nigerien political actors themselves have a role in this and Nigerien domestic politics can be a bigger rea...
China's interest in the Sahel (and in Africa in general) with it's Belt and Road Initiative is simply to get more customers for it's industry and enla...
Stable government is far more than the security sector, and that's a problem. You cannot use only a hammer, if you would need a saw or an axe. And mil...
Simply a younger generation of candidates is what the US needs. If I'd be an American, I really wouldn't be excited about choosing from two old farts ...
I think the probability of military intervention into Niger is low, but still exists. The ECOWAS is divided about any intervention into one of their m...
The problem is when a term means totally different things to different people. There usually is a consensus about the actual definition of the term, b...
It has played a part, yes. Boko Haram was for a while working with the IS. The Franchises have actually older roots than 9/11 and Osama's successful t...
Allies in the war on Terror. Belarus is an ally of Russia. But Belarus has also been a part of Russia. And Russia influences Belarus a lot. Has a lot ...
I remember a meteorologist I knew was asked by a reporter that as he believed that a new ice age was coming and then there global warming (called that...
I absolutely didn't say that. Actually, the Sahel is worth a thread of it's own so I started one here. Especially what is happening with Niger. I thin...
The African countries have been allies in the War on Terror (that curious war that started with 9/11, you remember). Operation Serval was widely appra...
This is a very good point to make. Economists rarely want to take into consideration of their models when countries are in wartime economy: the statis...
Lol. Just as Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso were allies with France ...until a change in leadership! And the huge protests against Lukashenko earlier (unti...
France and it's former colonies should have another thread, but France isn't annexing it's former colonies back! The perfect example in this case is B...
In similar fashion dozens of countries ought to have the "right not to consider" other countries and territories similarly. But once you acknowledge t...
If the ICC has made the case against these actions and the numbers are well in the many thousands, including cases where Russia has then released back...
I'm not so sure that the US & NATO response of using force in the case of nuclear weapons being used was just a bluff. Or is a bluff. The response was...
It's quite possible that this war becomes a frozen conflict (as Russia just loves frozen conflicts!) and Russia keeps the Donbass. However Russia givi...
As much as humanity has engineered the planet, the answer is of course. The good thing is that compassion and empathy is also something important for ...
It's quite early to say what happens. As history gives reference, a lot can happen in the election in more than a years time. I yet think that, unfort...
China isn't poor and there's still a functioning global grain market. Russia will be eager to compensate for any problems the war causes for China. He...
Don't assume the logical with current US politics. And never underestimate how bizarre populist politics and polarization can be. Trump might not get ...
Well, you mentioned yourself the big rival. The rise of China from an economy as big as the Netherlands to the second largest economy in thirty years ...
Link didn't work, but I guess I found what four terms were talked about. Well, if then Mr Peskov as the spokesperson indicated that Ukraine should ack...
Or looked in the wrong place. Fukuyama was a neocon and then, afterwards, distanced himself from the Bush era neocons and wrote an apology of a book a...
Well, now there has been the Congressional hearings about the issue with David Grusch giving testimony (referring to what started his OP) alongside tw...
The irony here is that the thing Mearsheimer got right (in the 1990's) was that Russia would attack Ukraine if Ukraine would give up it's nuclear dete...
If the term "coup" is too much, then use the word mutiny. Yet I'm not so convinced about the disbandment of the Wagner group as you are. Just yesterda...
Sorry, been a bit sick, so I respond only now, well later of the discussion: Having the conflict and the killing halt somehow obviously would be a goo...
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