So covering 24,000 miles makes a navy formidable? I would agree with your point when they will travel 24000 miles and back to their home base during war times....
Russian economy was no way near to what the Chinese economy is right now. Russia attacked Afghanistan so that it could have access to warm waters, but China is not attacking any country it is making roads, so there is a difference in approach of both. USSR was a union of different countries...
What internal politics? they have been asking us for help, they dont even have food to feed their population and when we send them food trucks they take off our Flag from the trucks.
I doubt USA would want to confront China, the era of cold war is over, both the economies depend on each other. Neither of the countries can afford to go to war with each other.
Smuggling heroin into your own country is....what can I say......it would have made sense if it was going towards Europe or some other country but for local consumption.
just using his celebrity power to make noise, I am sure that there are many people around who would rent him their house, he has not been living on footpath till now.
It would have been difficult for USA had Pakistan not helped them and provided them with air access. It would have been more costly for them to fight against the Talibs. But then again it does not matter now.
there is a big IF........These shops are all over the place is Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Rawalpindi, each one of them claiming that this is Nato stuff, which is totally false. Selling low quality stuff as NATO and american mall is the main issue.
to get views, that's it.