Posted on 08/07/2020 12:24:17 PM PDT by libh8er
The mountainous area is much like Afghanistan. Sparsely populated tribes in constant warfare with each other.
A lot like what is depicted in Kipling's "Kafiristan", without the central religious leaders...
Land for debt may be their long term strategy. But they should beware of imperial overreach.
Tajikstan will have to join NATO. Russia has left them out to dry. Russia is more interested in maintaining the inner parts of the USSR and doesn’t want the most extreme of the Islamic states on its southern border. Plus it is possible that Putin and Xi agreed to the exchange as having China deal with the Islamic radicals takes the issue off of Russia’s hands.
Same thing would happen if we left Hawaii
Not just "no", but "Hell NO". We have enough problems with the Muslims in Turkey.
endorheic basins
I had to look it up.
Interesting, especially that the lakes are salt water.
learned something
Ootah the Terrible!
No question. With liberals in power first Hawaii, then over time the US west coast. They could claim the Chinese started arriving in California during the Gold Rush even before California was a state, and that China was illegally taken away and ceded to the United States.
First take California (including all of Silicon Valley and the intellectual property that comes out of there), then Oregon and Washington..and gradually move inward.
I meant *California* was illegally taken away..
The Tajiks are the Mexicans of Asia.
Another great movie that could not be made today.
Blame Bush. After 9/11 Putin managed to persuade the Central Asian dictators to let the US military into the region for the support of Afghan operation. The ‘diplomats’ followed the military agitating against the Russian influence and also subverting the dictators.
The ‘diplomats’ generally failed to create a pro-American environment but were rather successful in subverting the Russian influence. China is now filling the void.
I think if Putin ever to be toppled and put on trial by either Communists or far-right his dealings with Bush would be classified as treason.
Always something to learn! I try to listen, learn and teach as much as I can. It is a lifetime preoccupation.
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