Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Madan Krishna Shrestha



Musk: 'We need to use oil and gas'



Afghanistan, One Year After the Fall
The Last Place Left Online for Real Conversation
What the U.S. Gets Wrong About Iran empires tended not to last beyond three generations. The founders of the first-generation are rough men united by hardship, grit and group solidarity, a concept he called asabiyyah. The next generation preserves the achievements of their forebears. By the third or fourth generation, however, the comforts of wealth and status erode ambition and unity, leaving them vulnerable to a new generation of power seekers with fire in their bellies. ........... few nations have spent a greater percentage of their finite political and financial capital to try and topple the U.S.-led world order than Iran ......... The country’s successful entrenchment of powerful proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, coupled with America’s humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, have further convinced Iran of its own success as well as America’s inevitable decline. .......... U.S.-Iran normalization could prove deeply destabilizing to a theocratic government whose organizing principle has been premised on fighting American imperialism. ........ the long-term goal of a representative Iranian government that is driven by the national interests of its people, rather than the revolutionary ideology of its rulers. ........... .

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