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Oil losing importance, Arabia losing importance .. issue becoming not controlling Arabs, but getting out of Arabia.
Re Pakistan and Turkey and Iran , related to "nuke", again, mistaken .. having "nuclear bomb" will play no role in geopolitical developments among nations in the future .. USSR had more nukes than US , but collapsed .. Pakistan and India have nukes, AND ? will that prevent India taking over Pakistan ? NO.
What will count in the future, are the # of scientists, scientific pool of a nation, that is the definition of "WEALTH" of the future Nations.
Iran building it's military just to protects Iran so that Iran can ramp up it's potential, and not to conquered Arabia or Asia Minor etc etc .. Iran conquering those place will not be by military means .. Persian empire was not built by force, Satrapies joined voluntary.
Looking in Western universities, research centres, technologies, industries .. how many Pakistani top scientist are there, how many Turkish ? how many head of faculty of US top universities are Pakistani or Turks ? not many .. but many Iranian ..
29 yr old professor of informatic of top European university, ETH ..
Algorithm .. that is the power for nations in the future and not how many nuke that nation has.
Military power has become "impotent", military power can only KILL but can not WIN .. that was always like that, Chingiz Khan killed millions but Monguls disappeared, same with Attila .. same now with Israel, Israel military power has not achieved security and peace for Israel, in contrary.
Recapping, Not Turkey, not Pakistan, will be the winner down the road in that space .. but Iran
Iran will unite the Persian Civilizational Space, part of central Asia, KavKaz, Kurdish part of Turkey, Mesopotamia , revitalize that space.
Turks are great "killing machine", but that epoch is past, America killed millions in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Iraq .. AND ? all wars lost.
"HAL 10000" has learned the wrong lesson from history, that is the problem of US neocons too, they have not realized world has changed.
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