World Politics Thread

[chasfh]

  On 7/7/2022 at 1:32 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

I was pointing to the political struggle. Not your "Gotcha moment" on the tweet source......... I grew up on a family farm, it is a real struggle. Throw new gov't restrictions and you lose your way of life, not ideal.

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I wasn't talking about farmers at all—only about the phrasing the woman used.

[gehringer_2]

Star chicken-hawk John Bolton throws  US international relations under the bus trying to pass himself off as some kind of latter day Kissinger in a Jake Tapper interview.

Bolton is an idiot

[romad1]

  On 7/13/2022 at 9:30 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Star chicken-hawk John Bolton throws  US international relations under the bus trying to pass himself off as some kind of latter day Kissinger in a Jake Tapper interview.

Bolton is an idiot

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Solid hyper link work there

[CMRivdogs]

The guy headlining a Right Wing QGOP conference this week. Tucker Carleson's hero. The "leader" the former president who lost wants to be....

 

[Motown Bombers]

This is pretty wild.

 

[gehringer_2]

Well, that didn't take long......

(For the Taliban to have a counter insurgency on their hands that is,......)

 

[romad1]

  On 9/8/2022 at 2:38 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Well, that didn't take long......

(For the Taliban to have a counter insurgency on their hands that is,......)

 

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Couldn't happen to better guys

 

[1984Echoes]

Northeastern Afghanistan is Tajik territory.

The same guys who overthrew the Taliban in 2002 (under Massoud it was all Tajik in the "Northern Alliance"; but grew quickly after his assassination and with American funding/ expertise/ special ops to include some other Anti-Taliban tribes...).

[gehringer_2]

  On 9/8/2022 at 3:54 PM, 1984Echoes said:

Northeastern Afghanistan is Tajik territory.

The same guys who overthrew the Taliban in 2002 (under Massoud it was all Tajik in the "Northern Alliance"; but grew quickly after his assassination and with American funding/ expertise/ special ops to include some other Anti-Taliban tribes...).

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You'd think that after a few hundred years of this nonsense, they would by now have decided on a line between Tajikaganistan and Pashtunaganistan and called it a day.

[CMRivdogs]

End of an era...

 

[smr-nj]

Well, she had a good run….. 

I loved to see pics/video of her driving. I think that’s when she wore a true smile. Also when she was walking with her corgis. 
 

 

[romad1]

  On 9/8/2022 at 5:44 PM, smr-nj said:

Well, she had a good run….. 

I loved to see pics/video of her driving. I think that’s when she wore a true smile. Also when she was walking with her corgis. 
 

 

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I doubt anyone has had a better run in the entire history of the British peoples.  God save her and good luck Charles. 

[smr-nj]

I’ll also miss her hats.

 

[Hongbit]

  On 9/8/2022 at 5:49 PM, romad1 said:

I doubt anyone has had a better run in the entire history of the British peoples.  God save her and good luck Charles. 

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Keith Richards just told you to buzz off.  

[romad1]

The leader of Sinn Fein is offering his condolences.  Who would have thought?!

[1984Echoes]

  On 9/8/2022 at 4:29 PM, gehringer_2 said:

You'd think that after a few hundred years of this nonsense, they would by now have decided on a line between Tajikaganistan and Pashtunaganistan and called it a day.

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It would not bother me to extend current day Tajikistan into any predominant Tajik territory in Afghanistan, and lop off the rest of it as Pashtunistan as you say. The Taliban are all Pashtun... the only issue is that there is a chunk of Pakistani territory that is mostly Pashtun also so there will always be troubles fomenting there... But if you combined the two Pashtun territories I believe that would extend all the way to the Indian Ocean and therefore give them a modicum of economic viability... Maybe enough to throw off the Taliban extremists... although, that could backfire...

Separate issue... but I have long wanted to carve out a Kurdistan for the Kurds. The largest culture/ ethnicity without its own country. Northern Iraq, eastern Turkey (no wonder they're always attacking the Kurds...), northern Syria, and northwestern Iran. I would give them a land bridge to the Black Sea and to the Caspian Sea.

But that's just me.

[gehringer_2]

  On 9/8/2022 at 7:06 PM, 1984Echoes said:

The Taliban are all Pashtun... the only issue is that there is a chunk of Pakistani territory that is mostly Pashtun also so there will always be troubles fomenting there..

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Of course the problem is that if you separated a nation out of Afghanistan based on Pashtun ethnicity, they would want their piece of Pakistan to go with it - and so it would go. There's hardly any end to the story once you start subdividing enclaves. The curious thing is that in Europe, centuries of warfare eventually did force ethnic separation, so by the 20th century things had calmed down in terms of ethnic wars (other than Yugoslavia) - which gave them the luxury of having ideological ones. (). In areas where the Ottomans or Mongols ruled, they had a different system where you had parallel ruling jurisdictions operating for different religious groups in the same geography. But once those old poly jurisdictional regimes collapsed, it left all kinds of people who didn't want to be ruled by each other in highly mixed geographies and the fallout still drives a lot of the conflict in places like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and to a degree Afghanistan.

[oblong]

She was a real dame

[chasfh]

  On 9/8/2022 at 5:44 PM, smr-nj said:

Well, she had a good run….. 

I loved to see pics/video of her driving. I think that’s when she wore a true smile. Also when she was walking with her corgis. 
 

 

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And communing with her horses, which is the job she really wanted in life ...

[smr-nj]

Yes. Those also were genuine smiles.

Imagine living your life basically as a prisoner. I don’t envy her or any in that royal family.

[Jim Cowan]

  On 9/8/2022 at 9:53 PM, smr-nj said:

Yes. Those also were genuine smiles.

Imagine living your life basically as a prisoner. I don’t envy her or any in that royal family.

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Yes, they are house pets.  Tourist attractions in England.

 

[Motown Bombers]

I'm not going to lie, there have been times I wish I were my cat. Lay around all day and yell when it's time for someone to feed me and crap in a box that someone else will clean up. Living like a house pet is my kind of living.

[chasfh]

It's definitely not too soon for #irishtwitter.

And this is one of the nicer ones. 

Edited September 9, 2022 by chasfh

[romad1]

On Morning Joe, they played the memory I have.  The playing of the US National Anthem at Buckingham Palace on the morning after September 11, 2001.   She knew the importance of the special relationship.

[romad1]

  On 9/9/2022 at 1:29 AM, chasfh said:

It's definitely not too soon for #irishtwitter.

And this is one of the nicer ones. 

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Ireland was neutral in WWII.   Not a war you want to be neutral in.