Miscellaneous News

You notice what they aren't making lemonade out of lemons...? Iran is able to sell oil on the international market again at normal market prices. Isn't that suppose to kill China because as they were claiming before China is surviving on cheap oil from from Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, They were claiming the closing of the Strait of Hormuz alone was suppose to collapse China. They were claiming themselves going against Iran and Russia in Ukraine was really about taking on China. So why didn't these geniuses end sanctions long before?

Look at how the Japanese are now talking to Iran and Russia. Yes they know they can't count on the good ole USA to keep the oil pipeline open to Japan. And that's why the West hates China because it doesn't blindly follow the West on who and what countries they can trade with which tells you their only power comes when everyone else obeys.

tamsen_ikard said:

Mughal empire also ruled a pretty much united indian subcontinent for centuries.

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This so called Mughal empire was beaten by Afghans (without tech) so hard that they surrendered to British. just think about it.
We wont be even discussing countries like India or Iran if there was Russian empire.
Real empires has great deal of authority and Soft Power span over long period of time.
like this remnants of Russia empire makes Israel attractive to Central Asia. (Putin is also pushing behind the scene)

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Aftermath​

After the sacking, Ahmad Shah

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against the Marathas and

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until April 1757 when he began preparing to return to

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. Upon his return to Delhi in March, the city was sacked again.

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The Afghan invasion had dire consequences for the Mughal Empire, as most of their troops, along with some of the best from the Bengal Subah, were forcibly deployed against the Afghans.

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Mere months later, the army of the Bengal Subah, weakened due to the Afghan invasion, was completely defeated at the

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, beginning the rise of British power in India.

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