According to the debate moderator ***** it's psychological......
Why are we always announcing everything we do? And why, when tensions are at their highest, are we doing this nonsense?
CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia - NBC News
Why are we always announcing everything we do? And why, when tensions are at their highest, are we doing this nonsense?
CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia - NBC News
Big things happening in Turkey - internet totally off in southeast & HDP officials being detained.
+ Rumor of imminent invasion of Iraq.
Turkish invasion of Iraq, huh?
Wonder in whose favor....
So do you think end goal Kurdish buffer state is a possibility, or is Turkey going to attempt to beat back ISIS and set their thumb on Iraq as a whole? Or beat back ISIS and hope the Kurds are favorable? Or beat back ISIS and hope Iraq is favorable? I don't think Iraq will be big on Kurdish independence.Their own. The northern part of Iraq contains the Kurds. They have been talking about carving out their own nation for years (gained steam after GW1). Turks and Kurds = oil and water. Turkey certainly doesn't want an organized hostile nation on their border. Turkey is obviously more powerful, but they better bring their lunch. They start a conflict with Iraqi Kurds, which I think is unlikely, then they better recognize their own Kurds might take issue (militarily) against them. Probably and epic dumb move.
America is too complacent at this point, IMHO. Well, complacent and isolationist.
The only way we get involved in WWIII is going to be like the WWII template, IMHO. Things get bad for our allies, we try to stay out of it, until there's an existential threat.
If Putin remains in power, I suspect we won't recognize the existential threat to our primary allies until it is over.
Relax Kut
China is a paper tiger they have no real way to project power.
They are more interested in$$$ and how to cheat us in trade "bigly"
I guess they do have a few nuclear weapons ah what the heck you only live once.