Geopolitics
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Short 🧵 (mostly a collection of tweets) on 🇵🇰 Why does the country even exist? At best, it is an ambitious postcolonial project based on religion. At worst, it is an exploitat...
“When Dutch PM Mark Rutte visited.. Biden in the White House in January 2023, he told Biden: “You have asked me twice to become secretary-general of NATO, and I turned you down tw...
Historical Rivalries: Nations with the Most Conflicts Among Themselves in History 🇩🇰🇸🇪 🇬🇧🇫🇷 🇮🇳🇵🇰 🇬🇷🇹🇷 🇨🇳🇯🇵 🇵🇱🇷🇺 A Thread 🧵 https://t.co/RSo7eEaWrm
What a piece about a potential Trump 2.0 foreign policy: Send the entire US Marine Corps to the Pacific, arm Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, make Taiwan pay more, make th...
I first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II back in 2018. But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we—and not the Chinese—might be the Soviets. 1/13 https://t.co...
1/ This thread will show the sauce for #AmericanTartaria Yes, America was called American Tartaria, waaaay before it was ever called America. These 'chiefs' were Tartarian kings...
I see a lot of underestimating/overestimating of Israel’s military so I did this thread on IDF’s current/future…imho Israel isn’t “weak” but it has nowhere near the capacity requir...
“alarm signals were not picked up by BJP prior to polling to contain any potential damage. If, as.. suggested, this muted desire to win was a result of inner-party tensions over ti...
Georgia and Armenia are the main geopolitical remnants of a formerly much more widespread Christian civilization in western Asia but they're often shunted into the cultural or even...
If Yesterday’s was about important ports, today it’s about African Nations. Btw, UPSC loves asking questions on Africa Bookmark this for upcoming prelims 2024 Reading Time: 3 mi...
This man has been sentenced to 5,200 years and 67 life sentences. He is at the top of Hamas list for the exchange deal. Here is his story. https://t.co/xkKs1kIb7B
The collapse of a global hegemon is always an extremely dangerous time. The fall of the British empire was the proximate cause of two world wars and many smaller conflicts, for exa...
IR Topics that can Make or Break your Selection in UPSC Prelims 2024 Sharing Important Places and Ports in News Reading Time: 2 Min A Thread 🧵
Some South Sudanese also wanted to do this, proposing "Azania" as the name of the country, a Greek toponym for regions south of Nubia https://t.co/Lw6yZ53So3
Debunking Myth: Syria's conflict was started due to Assad refusing Qatar and Turkey’s gas pipeline proposal. https://t.co/rs5ryYZRtb
“First and foremost, the Prime Minister must take the responsibility for raising expectations to levels that were almost unrealistic. It now seems clear that before the election, M...
“Beijing has good reason to push Seoul to keep its doors open. The motivations are driven less by a belief in free trade and more about the emerging sectors where 🇨🇳 is becoming a...
THREAD on the Foreign Affairs magazine throwdown on the US-China endgame. What American policy is most likely to avoid WWIII? We've got some real heavyweights in the ring today: R...
So after Lai's provocative speech in which he directly mentioned 2 nations , 🇨🇳 unsurprisingly conducted massive military drills, some people thinks 🇨🇳 responses are not tough enou...
"Why can't China leave Taiwan alone?" People who say this are hopelessly naive. Taiwan plays a critical role in determining: 1) The end of US hegemony 2) China's survival 3) Th...
While all (Western) eyes were on Kharkov - and celebrated the "slow down of Russian Forces" -Ukrainians lost some settlements on other sectors the last couple of days... So the Kh...
My American friends joke that they will switch to Chinese social media if the US bans TikTok. I think it's a fun idea, but they should probably brush up on Chinese internet slang f...
Who is this Palestinian? And why is he considered the father of Zero Distance? https://t.co/gsCx25vPvf
The Russian tactics of operating a big multi-channel EW jammer are revealed. Radio receivers tell whether a single drone is coming, or many. If single, another smaller jammer of...
