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This is probably the most peaceful time in history, there is no armed conflict in the western hemishpere. https://time.com/4475617/how-peace-finally-came-to-reign-thr... Most of the world is at peace, it's a remarkable accomplishment.
The Ukraine versus Russia
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Oops. I did know that, but my fingers did not. Thanks, I edited the original.
Rivers that flow northward mess up all of our brains a little bit,.
The old colonial treaty split the waters 85-15 between Egypt and Sudan ignoring all the other African countries. This is completely unsustainable, the poor uptream countries must have their share. Egypt just needs to use desalinization and water saving methods like other ME states.
The problem revolves around the filling duration. 3 years is way too fast for the downstream. thirsting the downstream is hardly ever a solution.
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This is probably the most peaceful time in history, there is no armed conflict in the western hemishpere. https://time.com/4475617/how-peace-finally-came-to-reign-thr... Most of the world is at peace, it's a remarkable accomplishment.
My understanding is that economic interdependence deserves the bulk of the credit for this relative peace. Tying the economic prosperity of nations together makes it harder to rationalise physical conflict. But perhaps we can also thank global communications for making it that little bit harder (though still by no means impossible) to sufficiently otherise far away populations.
That was the thesis of a book called The Great Illusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
The book argued a European war was very unlikely.
the economic interdependence between industrial countries would be "the real guarantor of the good behavior of one state to another", as it meant that war would be economically harmful to all the countries involved.
The book was published, to great acclaim, in... 1909.
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Has the world always been this on-the-cusp of war? Turkey-Greece, Azerbaijan-Armenia, China-Taiwan, Ethiopia, Egypt-Uganda, Saudi-Iran-Yemen, Congo, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Russia-Ukraine, Morocco-Western Sahara-Algeria, India-China, India-Pakistan, Syria Maybe I've just been watching too much Caspian Report lately, and a lot of these issues are a century in the making, but damn if it doesn't feel like early WW2 issues…
This is probably the most peaceful time in history, there is no armed conflict in the western hemishpere. https://time.com/4475617/how-peace-finally-came-to-reign-thr... Most of the world is at peace, it's a remarkable accomplishment.
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Water is life or death. So they might have to try it. Go block oil extraction in the Arab world and USA will be all over you...national interest.
Not anymore. The US is an oil exporting nation now.
That is irrelevant. Oil is fungible. Block oil exports from the Middle East and the price of oil skyrockets worldwide including in the US.
Doesn't Egypt have a really powerful military? If the dam's an existential threat to Egypt, why don't the Egyptians simply launch a military strike to blow it up?
The old colonial treaty split the waters 85-15 between Egypt and Sudan ignoring all the other African countries. This is completely unsustainable, the poor uptream countries must have their share. Egypt just needs to use desalinization and water saving methods like other ME states.
The problem revolves around the filling duration. 3 years is way too fast for the downstream. thirsting the downstream is hardly ever a solution.
Doesn't Egypt have a really powerful military? If the dam's an existential threat to Egypt, why don't the Egyptians simply launch a military strike to blow it up?
Egypt literally dies as a nation without Nile water. Uganda purchasing SU27 advanced long range fighter bombers and Egypt recently placing increased emphasis and resources on training military units(including western training efforts) responsible for upstream Nile force projection is not a coincidence. Nile resource sharing is a massive flash point. I recall glancing at an engineering report that indicated clearing/d…
and the big ass damn in Ethiopia. Given the civil war there, don't be surprised in this turning into a bigger conflict.