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Budzilla posted:This should have been posted in the OP. PNAC redrawing of the ME. Afghanistan losing Herat but getting back the NWFP sounds like the reverse of what happened in the 1800s, the best part is that the frontier region is even less governable than Afghanistan propers current tribal areas. There's a reason the Afghan monarchs didn't bother to reclaim the territory.
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cheerfullydrab posted:That redrawn Middle East map is automatically poo poo because it has a Kurdistan, a Baluchistan, but no Pashtunistan. Without going into any complexities about the lines of borders that on its face automatically discounts the thing. Looks like even when someone gets to just crap all over a phoney map with their ideas of compact nation-states, the Pashtuns still get the shaft. Does the author just imagine that the redrawn Afghanistan would be basically a Pashtun state? Gotta gently caress over a lot of people for that to happen in their personal concept of Afghanistan. Pashtunistan and Afghanistan mean the exact same thing, Afghan and Pashtun can be been used interchangeably. As for the Pashtun nationalist concept of Pashtunistan (or Loy Afghanistan), the redrawn Afghanistan gives you a pretty good idea of what it would look like.
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Wait, aren't modern Macedonians of Slavic origin? I thought the Slavs didn't leave the Urals until like, 800 years after Alexander died.
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The Sin of Onan posted:Basically. It's a slap-fight about who was a bad enough dude to take down the Persian Empire. It's a giant oneupmanship contest; the Greeks get mad about Macedonia's name, so the Macedonians rename their airport after Alexander. The Greeks build a giant statue of him, so the Macedonians fly some Pakistani tribe supposedly descended from Greek/Macedonian colonists into their country and hold a big homecoming festival. It must've been the Kalash people who live in the Chitral region along the border of Afghanistan. During the Great Game, the British came up with the idea that they and other ethnic groups in the region (Pashtuns mostly) must descend from Greeks because they can look white on occasion. Of course this was bunk and it turns out they're native to the area.
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yoctoontologist posted:
Afghanistan is essentially where all of Eurasia's racial phenotypes meet to kill each other, it should probably have its own colour. TheIllestVillain fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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3peat posted:This one is surreal to me, how can there be countries out there without paid maternity leave. Like what kind of people think that's normal and acceptable. That map might be a little outdated or just inaccurate since Australia has a paid parental leave system.
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Count Roland posted:Yes. And it isn't just convienience here, the ISI were instrumental in the creation of the Taliban and their successful conquest of the country during the chaos of the 90s. They helped the Taliban at the highest levels and provided them with ammo and trucks and supplies and more. Despite the Taliban being a destructive force inside Pakistan as well, the ISI will probably keep backing the Taliban as a hedge against Indian influence. It wasn't just the ISI, there were reports of uniformed Pakistani troops fighting alongside the Taliban back in 96 when Kabul fell. The Taliban had tried to take the city on their own a year earlier but they were easily repelled by the Northern Alliance.
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Negative Entropy posted:Yes. The Afghan Taliban focus on their own nation and the Pakistani Taliban focus on theirs. Is there a reason why hasn't unification been more of a thing among the Taliban groups? Considering they're both entirely composed of ethnic Pashtuns, i've always wondered why they never formed some kind of Islamised "Pashtunistan" nationalist movement or at least expressed some kind of irredentist sentiment. TheIllestVillain fucked around with this message at 10:31 on May 1, 2014 |
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What are the chances FN can pull off this kind of result during a general election?
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I thought the Scotch-Irish were supposed to be descendants of the Anglo-Scot colonists from the Ulster plantation era, i was always under the impression they were ethnically distinct from the native Irish.
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steinrokkan posted:I happen to know this is a map of "white people", and it says a lot about the author that he doesn't consider Mexicans to be white (but for some reason doesn't care about the Spaniards being obviously too friend of the family-ish to count as white!) It looks more like a map of "white-ish christians" since Lebanon and Armenia are 50-75/90+% but Albania is less than 50%
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