Vivek, I am so glad you wrote this. Last May I encountered a Free Balochistan protest march in Potsdam, of all places, and I was so taken with the cheerful purposefulness of it that I followed the protestors to their stopping point at the Jägertor and started talking with one of them. This is a conflict I knew nothing about before (blame Western media bias, etc., but I was still embarrassed) and I was fascinated by how succinctly the young man made his case.
I mean, Iran is for all intents and purposes a nuclear state and in a region full of complete lunatics, and it would be as big a crime as abandoning Ukraine to Russian genocide for the United States and Europe not to be covertly backing the Iranian protesters. Obviously not as much as we’re doing in Ukraine, but something. I don’t see any real difference between backing Kurds and women against a dictatorship in cahoots with our strategic enemies and backing Baluchis against a government-backed Chinese colonization.
Too late for that. Pakistan’s already destabilized. They’ve got a cricketer leading “Stop the Steal” rallies. Might as well make hay while the sun shines.
Vivek, I am so glad you wrote this. Last May I encountered a Free Balochistan protest march in Potsdam, of all places, and I was so taken with the cheerful purposefulness of it that I followed the protestors to their stopping point at the Jägertor and started talking with one of them. This is a conflict I knew nothing about before (blame Western media bias, etc., but I was still embarrassed) and I was fascinated by how succinctly the young man made his case.
Seems like the perfect opportunity for Western intelligence to repay the ISI in kind for secretly backing the Taliban.
I guess ... if we want to destabilize a nuclear state in a region full of complete lunatics. I mean, as if we don't already have our hands full.
I mean, Iran is for all intents and purposes a nuclear state and in a region full of complete lunatics, and it would be as big a crime as abandoning Ukraine to Russian genocide for the United States and Europe not to be covertly backing the Iranian protesters. Obviously not as much as we’re doing in Ukraine, but something. I don’t see any real difference between backing Kurds and women against a dictatorship in cahoots with our strategic enemies and backing Baluchis against a government-backed Chinese colonization.
Too late for that. Pakistan’s already destabilized. They’ve got a cricketer leading “Stop the Steal” rallies. Might as well make hay while the sun shines.
What is India’s view about all of this or is it mostly irrelevant to India?
India might even be involved.