The roundup of these guys has nothing to do with anti-corruption or liberalizing Saudi Arabia. MBS is paving his way to unchallenged rule while stripping people wealthier than him of assets. He seems like a very cruel, jealous and brash person.
It is better to go through the painful procedure of babying your nascent defense industry while your nation is at peace. But I agree Turkey has bungled up this small arms process, similar to the long delays in the T-129 program. We have to become more serious.
We need a bipolar world in order to balance out the inequalities faced by developing nations. How much longer will we allow neo-colonialism and Crusades to continue ?
Pakistan should have invaded Afghanistan during the Soviet war there and taken all of these nomadic Pashtun lands in the south. Pakistan also should have taken back Kashmir by painting India as a heavily deluded Soviet ally and the west would not have been able to say anything. Pakistan suffers...
I don't think oil money is interested in buying MiG 21s and T-72s. Saudi Arabia and Egypt for example are buying S-400 among other new weapons. These are all post Cold War Russian weapons that have not seen combat against the west for the most part.
Those Type 56 rifles look straight out of 1956. But in policing these things don't really matter. It's the training of the officers and a strong justice system that prevents crime in the first place that matters. Beyond that the armed forces should play a prominent counter terror role and make...
Is Russia not worried about their latest toys falling into western hands ? Maybe Russia thinks the west already know their latest weapons inside and out.
From The Washington Examiner 5 days ago:
If Turkey buys the Russian S-400 air defense system, the Trump administration should restrict Turkey's purchase of the F-35 fighter jet.
Valerie Insinna reports at Defense News, the U.S. is actively considering that potential response.
First off, the...
Tension has been growing between the two communities this year, with some hardline Buddhist groups accusing Muslims of forcing people to convert to Islam and vandalising Buddhist archaeological sites.
Some Buddhists nationalists have also protested against the presence in Sri Lanka of asylum...
The best way might be having both sides of Jammu and Kashmir hold a referendum and have a few rounds of votes. Doing this bilaterally would not be possible, there needs to be a third and fourth party. But I am talking about a real truce, and normalized relations along the border. This scenario...
Any normal person with a brain can see that Pakistan is not North Korea or some unreasonable deluded country. If India accomodates Pakistan on the Kashmir issue then it is a de facto truce for the first time in your history.
If there is a single working brain in India, it will come to the conclusion that the inability to even acknowledge they are an occupying force on disputed, unique territory...will ultimately lead to its complete collapse as a weak federal state. That's why the UN and other big globalist agencies...
Have you been living under a rock for the past few years ? Those are all deals from the past, when the stockpiling of American nukes in Turkey was not questioned as a security risk. When Turkey was not labeled as an enemy during NATO war games. If we sit on our backside without contingency plans...