gradenko_2000 posted:

C&C predicting that Russia would be a GDI country was one of the biggest misreads of that decade, though perhaps one that they shared with just about every other political analyst in the Clinton era

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

I think there was a brief window of time in the 90s where it was just assumed Russia was our vassal now

Al-Saqr posted:

American companies are about to find out american ships dont have insurance

Weka posted:

It's two different groups. Each one primarly do cross border attacks. Each state has previously accused the other of at least passively supporting the Baloch terrorist group attacking it from across the border. Cooperation between these separatist groups has been growing recently and so has cooperation between Iran and Pakistan in fighting them. They set up a working group for border security in 2022.

Interestingly enough, hours before the initial Iranian strike, this meeting happened.

https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1747327136783040746

One can't help but wonder if they discussed the upcoming strikes and are doing this in conjunction with plausible deniability so as not to get their respective local populations too riled up.

Actually I'm pretty sure there was an independent Balochi state after partition that was almost immediately invaded by Pakistan.

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1747850728360521948?s=46

so just a little tit for tat? hard to believe that’s the end of it. this poo poo has consequences.

you know for a fact blinken is on the phone right now, promising Pakistan the moon if they do it again

Lord of Pie posted:

Israel was selling them weapons to murderize their rebellious minorities with back in the day

carcinofuck posted:

wtf Nigeria

edit: beaten
I think my perception is skewed cause I know some Nigerian converts and the social situation of the entire country reads like Pakistan

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

I think there was a brief window of time in the 90s where it was just assumed Russia was our vassal now

carcinofuck posted:

Yes but my point is that prior to partition it was the brits who decided where the line was drawn between Kalat and Iran, dividing up Balochistan. They drew the lines. Heck didn't they draw the line between Iran and Iraq?

smoobles posted:

Pakistan just bombed Iran. Regional war???

Majorian posted:

I mean they kind of were, is the sad thing.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1747854692720189904?s=20

Hezbollah rejected our diplomatic proposals of withdrawing north from the border in exchange for jack poo poo.

quote:

Israel has said it is giving a chance for diplomacy to prevent Hezbollah firing on people living in its north and to push Hezbollah back from the border, warning that the Israeli army will otherwise take action to achieve these aims.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Been said that the Anglosphere's big fuckup was refusing to let Russia in the club and insist they could only ever be a humiliated vassal or a feared enemy.

bedpan posted:

so yeah, Israel is attempting to dictate terms to Hezbollah while offering nothing in return

The Oldest Man posted:

I assume there's an implied or explicit threat about us air strikes here

gradenko_2000 posted:

how terribly off-the-mark would it be to suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood's real sin had very little to do with its supposed "extremism", and everything to do with the possibility that it might upend the status quo regarding Israel?

Palladium posted:

air strikes, famously destroyed Hez in 2006

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1747799191433228426?s=20

The Oldest Man posted:

The fall of the USSR to I would say about 2011 or so is a period in world history when almost everybody thought the US had Done It and just wanted to sign the paperwork, get their american flag hat, and get on with life. Even the Taliban tried to surrender and reach terms.

Unfortunately the western elite are fully, totally high on their own supply and got so coke brained during that time that eventually they thought their own propaganda about spreading freedom around was true even while they were bombing weddings and stopped doing the kind of realpolitik you need to run an empire.

You could put the end of that short period at the Russo-Georgian war in 2008 but I said 2011 because I think when the US started drone striking its own citizens overseas is when you could tell something was really hosed because a) the soft power required to just get the local suzerain to arrest the malcontents you don't like has failed and b) you don't even have the kind of access physically to the target for a surgical hit so you are forced to fall back on less precise methods of assassination.

Now the tail is fully wagging the dog and the pitbull vassal states like Israel are starting to look at their decrepit elderly hegemon and wondering what he tastes like.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Whatever the reverse of 'the worst person you know just made a good point' is, this is that.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

https://x.com/jimcmann/status/1744739102535397482?s=20

I don't know how reliably the changes in colours reflect the polling but it looks like the culprit could be Germany, Austria or Sweden, all of which I could believe

The Oldest Man posted:

I assume there's an implied or explicit threat about us air strikes here

gradenko_2000 posted:

how terribly off-the-mark would it be to suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood's real sin had very little to do with its supposed "extremism", and everything to do with the possibility that it might upend the status quo regarding Israel?

Orange Devil posted:

The gently caress is wrong with Nigeria?

Weka posted:

I think they caught a mild case of Anglo brain worms from the British

fizziester posted:

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Frosted Flake posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJVnPWG_Zw

I'm having a very hard time figuring out what happened here:

Savannah Army Ranger dies in training at Fort Stewart



Staff Sgt. Avonye John Cavon Chisolm suffered serious injuries during an airborne proficiency jump Wednesday at Galahad Drop Zone, said Tracy Bailey, spokeswoman for the 75th Ranger Regiment.

Chisolm was assigned to Company E, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield as a culinary specialist non-commissioned officer.

Frosted Flake posted:

I'll dig up my book on this, but a problem with trade warfare from the 1700's onwards is that shipping could continue - if a convoy system is used. However, a convoy system requires direct state oversight of commercial traffic, including scheduling. In 1752, 1808, 1812, 1916, 1939, merchant ships demanded they be able to sail alone instead of waiting for convoys to form, and it wasn't until French and American privateers, and German commerce raiders and U-Boats, started running up the numbers did they agree to the Admiralty setting the schedule.

We live in a world where the loving Admiralty Arch was sold off to developers, they are not taking control of civilian shipping.

CODChimera posted:

i wish i could get him out of my head

Orange Devil posted:

The gently caress is wrong with Nigeria?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

nodding my head like a circus seal

Tankbuster posted:

Baluchistan is kinda flaky and really important for pakistan.