So an Arab version of Gordon Chang.
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This Interesting read but failure may have some thing to do with Gulf Arabs. They prefer outside powers than some one nearby gaining ground. but they are too sophisticated to let others people know. Also you cannot expect some thing in hot desert environment with limited population to have that industrial capacity and institutions of Northern Europe that transfer skills and knowledge for generations. the life expectancy until recently was too short and air-conditioning hardly feasible. Islamism is effective tool used by Gulf Arabs and certain extent Russia to discipline society. Russia ambassador meeting shura council because the shura speaker is Phd. they want to emulate things that are successful. The founder of KSA has many dozen kids.
supercat
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The Ukraine and Israel have fight to the end because "China is watching".
I missed the part where Beijing treated Xinjiang as an open-air concentration camp for 50 years then attempts to bomb it to oblivion. As Dumbrill commented, had Uyghurs been oppressed as badly as Palestinians, China's method would not have worked.
I missed the part where Beijing treated Xinjiang as an open-air concentration camp for 50 years then attempts to bomb it to oblivion. As Dumbrill commented, had Uyghurs been oppressed as badly as Palestinians, China's method would not have worked.
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For a brief moment I thought she is one cool-headed person, untill I read this "Nixon to China" thing.
Didn't she realize the difference? In Nixon's time, China knows that USSR was more threatening than US, Nixon did not fool Chinese, nor did Chinese see US as some angel, it was totally mutual benifitial.
Today, US is China's number one threat, US itself handed over that image to China. For US to do a "Nixon" today is like saying "hi, give me a moment to kill the Russians and Iranians, so I could have time to kill you soon afterwards." Does she think other people are as stupid as she or US leadership are?
AssassinsMace
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I don't see many countering what Peter Zeihan says. Peter Zeihan is like India. You'll hear "experts" first say something about what's going on, then after several months, an Indian "expert" will come out summarizing what was said before acting like he's the first one to come up with it.
Zeihan is preaching to the crowd to those that want to believe it. He's just another Republican manipulation on YouTube trying to make their wishful thinking sound intellectual and like expert analysis to get people to believe it. Before they would pay already established YouTubers to be shills for their political positions but they all looked like a bunch of amateurs given a soap box to stand on. Now they're getting people that don't spew out inflammatory language to make them look professional. Zeihan gets basic information wrong. If he gets that wrong, his conclusions are going to be wrong. Zeihan points to demographics to how China is going to collapse in ten years. He calculates this based on how Mao started the one child policy when he took over China. But Mao didn't start the one child policy. That was implemented after he died. His ten year prediction is off by 25 years. Zeihan is another Gordan Chang because he apparently predicted China would collapse in ten years ten years before.
That is an idea like the occupation force (NATO/ISAF) in Afghanistan, except this time China and Russia won't let UN to provide legitimacy like UNSC resolution 1386 did.