a che uopo le costose forze armate Europee se non sono usate per assicurare i flussi di idrocarburi all-Europa via il Golfo Persico e Mar Rosso, adesso sotto minaccia non solo dai fanatici Sciiti del Iran ma anche dai primitivi Houthis del Yemen.
A Reminder when the IDF placed the food distribution center far away from their tent, So all the men and young boys can be separated from women and children so they can kill them and don't come back...
This Jewish clown doesn't understand a single sentence in Chinese or Russian or Persian or Arabic or Turkish... He has literally zero knowledge about economics or theories of international relations or political theory or area studies.
A Beijing friend finally told me why Xi Jinping disgraced five out of six members of the Central Military Commission, the apex of power (I once dined w ex Def Min ex CO of nuclear ff Wei Fenghe. 1. the goal of a purge is to terrify 2. hitting the uncorrupt is more terrifying
I remember Sept 11. While the deadly dust of jet fuel had yet to settle, all manner of fools (+ Jewish idiots) declared and wrote that Islamophobia was the greatest danger (!) But any reader of the Koran's dicta knows that they cannot be reconciled with ANY form of modernity
AGI... AGI... AGI... Dude,It's not some binary issue that from now, you have AGI(and before that you didn't have) It's an evolutionary process and If you AGI you mean "Artificial Human" that can do everything, so far all these claims are just empty boasts....
Terrific piece by folks @RANDCorporation Geopolitics of AGI. I've linked up with them for some cool activities--wargames, scenario exercises, a paper on ASI--over past year or so. Great group--RAND scholars and friendly fellow-travelers--tackling a defining challenge of our time.
The Turkish logic is unique !
Here on Turkish TV “explain”…
-Turkey,as non signatory of UNCLOS, can extend its teritorial waters on the Black Sea to 12nm
BUT
-Greece,a signatory of UNCLOS, can't extend them on the Med,like any other country in the world,even if article 121 of UNCLOS state this ,
because
it will cancel the fantasy illegal MoU Turkey signed with Libya ,that they have common maritime borders!!!!
via @LinconOsiris2
I've been recently reading more about Napoleon and his wars(including learning some french) It seems French revolution was a failure as were all political revolutions throughout history. In the decades before the revolution, France adopted a new grand strategy
Everyone says Napoleon's greatest mistake was Russia.
Napoleon didn't.
Years later, marooned on St. Helena with nothing left to protect, he named a different war. Spain. "That unfortunate war destroyed me." He called it the first cause of all the misfortunes of France.
Here is what he actually did.
In 1808, Spain was his ally. Not a rival, not a threat. An ally whose ports and armies he already had use of. He decided he wanted it outright anyway. He summoned the Spanish royal family to Bayonne, browbeat both the father and the son into signing away the crown, and handed the throne to his brother Joseph, a man who had never asked for it and did not want it.
He expected the country to shrug. Spain had been governed badly for decades. He believed he was offering an upgrade.
On the second of May, Madrid rose. French cavalry cleared the streets, and the next morning the firing squads went to work in the dark outside the city. Goya painted that night six years later, the man in the white shirt with his arms thrown out, and the image has outlived every dispatch Napoleon ever wrote.
The rising did not stop in Madrid. It spread to towns with no garrison, no orders, and no plan. In July a French corps of roughly 18,000 men was surrounded in the heat at Bailén and surrendered in the open field to a Spanish army. Europe had spent a decade being told this could not happen. Austria read the news and started rearming.
Then came the part that killed him slowly. Small bands, local men, no uniforms, hitting couriers and supply columns and stragglers and vanishing into country they had known since childhood. The Spanish called it the little war, guerrilla, and the word entered English in those years because English had no use for it before. A French soldier in Spain was safe in camp and nowhere else. Messages needed an escort of hundreds. Food had to be taken from people who would rather burn it.
Meanwhile a British army under Wellington held on in Portugal and refused to be cornered. In 1810 he pulled behind the Lines of Torres Vedras, a belt of fortifications the French did not know existed until they walked up to them. Masséna sat in front of that wall through the winter and watched his army starve, then withdrew without a battle.
By 1812 Napoleon had somewhere around a quarter of a million men tied down on the peninsula. That summer he crossed into Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen and still left his best marshals and a fifth of his strength behind in Spain. In the same weeks he was burning through the Grande Armée at Borodino, Wellington broke a French army at Salamanca and rode into Madrid.
June 1813, Vitoria. Joseph's army came apart and abandoned the treasury of the kingdom in the road. Wellington's men stopped to loot it and let the French escape. Beethoven wrote a piece about it. Weeks later Austria joined the coalition, and by 1814 there were British troops inside France coming up from the south while everyone else came from the east.
Russia destroyed the army he had.
Spain is the reason he never got another one, spent six years being bled by a country he did not need to fight, and handed his enemies the proof that he could lose.
and all those years of wasting resources for meaningless adventures ...(what I call "Soviet-Style madness")
By 1815, It was all over forever... France never again reached the same level of power it had in the 18th century. @GerardAraud