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Islamists want to go to the West for the money if they're sane or to blow things up if they're insane, right? True. :( Though then I suppose that they could just return to Afghanistan, no? Makes sense. BTW, in 2016, this article convinced me against partitioning Iraq...

Well, the Hazaras still appear to like the US: https://www.voanews.com/a/afghans-show-mixed-feelings-about-us-more-than-a-year-after-withdrawal/6857734.html But they won't be as oppressed and brutalized in Iran or in the US as they would back at home in Afghanistan...

Frankly, the Hazaras certainly deserve their own state. Or the option of safe haven in another country, such as Iran, if life in Afghanistan will become too intolerable for them. It's quite interesting: The 20th century saw a lot of countries break up: Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the...

Let's hope that it goes better for them than the Biafra War did. BTW, if the Taliban are ever overthrown again in Afghanistan, do you see Afghanistan subsequently breaking up? I don't expect this to happen in years, FWIW. Much more likely that it happens in decades if it ever actually happens...

Well, the Islamists could democratically seize control of Nigeria's government sooner or later with those kinds of birth rates.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nigeria_Total_Fertility_Rate_by_state_%282018_DHS%29.svg High fertility in Nigeria is primarily a Muslim thing.

Re: Africa: Any chance that the higher birth rates in northern Nigeria combined with the Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law there could eventually motivate Christian south Nigerians to once again try their luck with secession?

To ensure that ISIS doesn't eventually resurge?

Dore or Gore? I thought that the US likes the Syrian Kurds, no?

Yep, unfortunately. The Turkoman vs. the Kurds.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-police-chief-arrested-bribe-office

Very sad that former Muslims such as Salman Rushdie are getting violently attacked by extremist Muslim nuts! :(

*reported to have been casualties ... (typo)

Then you better hope that Trump or some other Republican such as Big Ron DeSantis wins in 2024, eh?

I thought that the US's huge shale oil reserves and production make it less dependent on Saudi Arabia than in the past?

MBS killed Khashoggi under Trump.

If that can be done while simultaneously combating Russia, I'm all ears and am all in favor of doing both of these things simultaneously!

Kind of hard to do when you need the Saudis to combat Russia, no?

Was this actually proven or is this just something that neocons cooked up to make Saddam look even worse than he already looked? IMHO, Saddam should have waited until Bill Clinton was President before he would have invaded Kuwait. His blunder literally subsequently ended up costing him his...

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/06/un-majority-syrian-refugees-dont-plan-go-home-within-year