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Amin Saikal

@aminsaikal

Author of How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan (Yale UP, 2024); Iran Rising: The Survival & Future of IR (Princeton UP, 2021)

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calendar_today07-01-2019 23:01:40

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Dislike of US is so global that BRICS is now positioned to shape a new world order without US. Biden has made a mess of America’s Middle East policy, Gaza & Lebanon ceasefires are desperately needed by halting arms supply to Israel for the sake of America’s national interests.

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Israeli leadership is in chaos; so is Israeli society. Despite exterminatory operations in Gaza & Lebanon, IDF hasn’t decisively crippled Hamas or Hezbollah, or secured release of Israeli hostages. Israel couldn’t be more insecure - all to save Netanyahu from going to jail.

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Those Afghan and foreign figures who advocate tolerance & understanding towards the Taliban essentially betray the girls and women under the Taliban’s draconian, misogynistic rule.

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Pakistan enabled the Afghan Taliban to reassume power so that they could help the Pakistani Taliban, & now Pakistan hits back at both of them. They all deserve one another, but at the cost of more misery for the people of Afghanistan.

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As the killing fields continue in Gaza, President Biden plans to send another $8 billion shipment of arms to Israel - Biden’s parting gift to Netanyahu. Arguably Israel’s war on Gaza is as much American as it is Israeli.

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The Afghanistan cricket team does not represent the people of Afghanistan. It a tool of the Taliban’s propaganda. It should be banned from playing any international games until such time that there is a government in Afghanistan that legitimately represents all it is citizens.

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The strategic landscape of the Middle East have altered with US-backed Israeli brutal invasions of Gaza & Lebanon, & regime change in Syria, causing setback for Iran & Russia but boosting Türkiye. This is unlikely to make the ME any less volatile or a zone of major power rivalry

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In Afghanistan, families are forced to sell children to survive. Trump’s USAID cuts will be devastating theconversation.com/in-afghanistan…

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A key feature of the 5th Vienna meeting on Afghanistan was the degree of unity shown by leaders of the 2 resistance forces, NRF & AFF. It is time for all other groups & influential figures to unite behind them for Afghanistan’s salvation.

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It is crunch time for the Arab countries to come up with a viable alternative to Trump’s plan for reconstruction and depopulation of Gaza. As Egypt has taken the lead in this respect, they are capable and can afford it, with some of the richest states among them in the world.

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Before the Taliban’s takeover, women made up about 27% of the public sector workforce in Afghanistan and contributed significantly in the private sector. Under the Taliban, women are banned from most jobs with many now forced to beg for food.

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این دیگر چه فاجعه‌ای‌ست؟ در افغانستان مردهایی پیدا می‌شوند که برای سیر کردن شکم‌شان، دختران شش و هفت ساله‌ی خود را می‌فروشند! بله، همین دخترک‌های معصوم را، که نه کودکی کرده‌اند و نه حتی معنای زندگی را فهمیده‌اند. این مردان یا دختر می‌فروشند، یا دختر می‌کشند، یا تمام تلاش‌شان این

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There is no military solution to the US-Iran nuclear dispute, only a fair diplomatic settlement. War has never worked as a stabilising means in the Middle East. History speaks to this loud and clear.

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Trump and Iran: Between Nuclear Compromise and Military Conflict - The Royal Society for Asian Affairs rsaa.org.uk/blog/trump-and…

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Netanyahu’s re-occupation of Gaza must be condemned as a desperate act to avoid trial & imprisonment on fraud charges. He has no regard for the lives of Palestinians or hostages, and wants a Hamas-led insurgency for as long it is in his interest, but not that of Israel.

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India and Pakistan have started firing at one another. Their mutual nuclear military capability may restrain them from engaging in an all out war. theconversation.com/india-and-paki…

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What Israel is doing to the people of Gaza and what the Taliban are inflicting on the people of Afghanistan, especially women, is a huge blot on the global conscience.