Re: World News Thread
A lot of the wider middle eastern conflicts are linked by personal / ideological exchanges it feels, and I think they largerly share a common primary enemy (US / West, or their local governments supported by the former). These conflicts are also largely on the news.
So are at least the caucasian / central asian islamist insurgencies linked in a similar way (e.g. opposing Russia), or are all these so locally focused / ideollogicly diverse that they don't really care about each other? It at least appears that I always hear about those conflicts seperately, but hardly ever connected to each other, as opposed to the middle eastern ones.
The ME insurgencies also seem to have general state sponsors here and there, these sharing the same opponent.
I hardly hear about caucasian or central asian islamist forces being sponsored by somebody. I wouldn't really believe that doesn't happen. But if it does, on the other hand, the sponsors should be pretty much the same.
Now, these sponsors are normaly themselves the recievers of russian arms exports. I'm wondering how that would play out if something came out.
Because if factions that e.g. Iran / Syria support elsewhere start to link up with caucasian anti-russian forces, Russia itself might be less willing to supply these countries with stuff.
The criminal gangs most likely won't care, but the ideology has link up forces wide apart lately, I'm wondering if / when that will appear in Russia's periphery.
Hell of a mess for Russia to deal with.
A lot of the wider middle eastern conflicts are linked by personal / ideological exchanges it feels, and I think they largerly share a common primary enemy (US / West, or their local governments supported by the former). These conflicts are also largely on the news.
So are at least the caucasian / central asian islamist insurgencies linked in a similar way (e.g. opposing Russia), or are all these so locally focused / ideollogicly diverse that they don't really care about each other? It at least appears that I always hear about those conflicts seperately, but hardly ever connected to each other, as opposed to the middle eastern ones.
The ME insurgencies also seem to have general state sponsors here and there, these sharing the same opponent.
I hardly hear about caucasian or central asian islamist forces being sponsored by somebody. I wouldn't really believe that doesn't happen. But if it does, on the other hand, the sponsors should be pretty much the same.
Now, these sponsors are normaly themselves the recievers of russian arms exports. I'm wondering how that would play out if something came out.
Because if factions that e.g. Iran / Syria support elsewhere start to link up with caucasian anti-russian forces, Russia itself might be less willing to supply these countries with stuff.
The criminal gangs most likely won't care, but the ideology has link up forces wide apart lately, I'm wondering if / when that will appear in Russia's periphery.