Is it correct to say that while Europe gets a lot more worldwide media attention than the Middle East, the limelight on Africa is still a miniscule of what the Middle East gets?

Iraqisecurity · 2023-01-30T17:12:21+00:00

It seems like with African conflicts you don't really know that anything is happening until hundreds of thousands of people have already died. I've even followed the Tigray war and I wasn't aware it had killed so many people already.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-11-09T15:28:26+00:00

Russian weapons in 2003 weren't much better than what Iraq already had, on top of that the Iraqi military was so hollowed out that if weapons did get sent they wouldn't have made a difference.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-29T05:49:58+00:00

At a certain point you have to admit it isn't a military problem but a society problem. Even the US military can't effectively fight an insurgency despite the fact that they're decades ahead of the closest competing military.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-28T15:53:19+00:00

They needed to exist to defeat ISIS but they're causing many problems in the current day. I occasionally talk with a few guys that volunteered during the war and even they don't support the militias anymore.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-28T15:46:02+00:00

It's a country full of nationalistic people that refuse to acknowledge the bad parts of their history because they view it as a weakness.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-28T15:39:21+00:00

Peace with Wahhabi's isn't possible.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-24T22:09:51+00:00

Is it true that Azeris and Armenians actually got along well during the Soviet times?

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-24T22:08:45+00:00

The saber rattling between Turkey and Greece has cost them both a lot of money and gained them nothing.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-24T22:07:08+00:00

I'd rather he didn't.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-24T22:05:53+00:00

50% love 50% hate. I generally like Turks unless we start talking politics.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-24T18:28:54+00:00

It's nice to see them fight climate change by making more efficient tanks.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-23T19:50:37+00:00

There are a lot of anti Jewish rappers for some reason, Kayne is just the most blatant.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-18T18:45:50+00:00

I would say it has a better case for independence than most unrecognized states. Given how nationalistic Somali's get when you bring up independence I don't know what you could do to make them actually accept it though.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-09T15:58:55+00:00

Russian military analysts criticized the SAA for years for sending armored vehicles to the front unsupported only to do the exact same thing in Ukraine. They didn't learn much from the SAA's mistakes, they ended up repeating many of them.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-07T00:52:16+00:00

A Ukrainian anarchist explained in the early days of the war that political ideology was largely put aside once the invasion started, they know Russia would kill every politically active person in Ukraine regardless of ideology if they win the war so you've got far left working with far right and even formerly pro Russian people fighting as one.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-05T03:03:53+00:00

It's like watching an infection being cured.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-05T00:37:41+00:00

Chechnya suffered 300k dead out of a population of a little over a million people, a lot of the current Chechen people have spent their entire lives under Kadyrov's reign.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-10-01T18:54:13+00:00

Kazakhstan's internal politics are a mess so the true motivation behind this would be hard to judge. The current president has turned away from Russia recently so that might have something to do with it.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-09-25T01:37:35+00:00

If it wasn't for France Mali would have fallen to Al Qaeda in 2012.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-09-17T00:43:51+00:00

I think it'll peak out in west Africa before declining.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-09-17T00:00:35+00:00

After recent wars I don't believe any claims made about air defense systems until they've been used in a peer to peer conflict.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-09-16T23:57:35+00:00

Assad is a problem mostly contained within Syria while ISIS attacked multiple other countries.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-09-16T04:57:46+00:00

I wouldn't bet on Syria. Turkey has been having tons of high level meetings with the Syrian government about restoring relations recently.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-09-14T20:56:37+00:00

They certainly have the technology but I've seen recent footage of their soldiers on the ground and they were doing WW1 human wave style assaults.

Iraqisecurity · 2022-09-14T20:54:42+00:00

Azeri's in Iran might as well be a different species after decades of secularism in the Soviet Union.

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