"They can make their own missiles, develop their own centrifuges, produce pesticides, chemo drugs, Archived Message Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on November 7, 2019, 7:44 am, in reply to "Sharmine Narwani on the end of the Syrian war and the "post-imperial Middle East"" drought-resistant wheat and Coca–Cola" says Sharmine of the Arab countries. Hmm! Bit of a mixed bag of 'achievements' there, S... But yes, the point is good, that they are becoming increasingly sophisticated at technology, to match or even surpass the Anglozionist empire's fading capacities. Fading particularly in the US, where, as Dmitry Orlov has been cataloguing in his recent writings - and interviews (x2) with Max Keiser (qv!) - the actual physical capacity of its tech industries to produce critically-important pieces of high technology is dilapidating to the point where they are now actually incapable of producing things that they used to be able to build, and now have to buy some vital, not to say crucial, goodsandservices from Russia! And, to compound the schadenfreudischer glee, the metropolitan state in particular, and all its provincial states, are all now nearly broke and are accelerating into the mother of all economic crises, so that they just can't afford any more (literally: virtually no gold and no credit left, behind all the desperate market manipulations) the sort of overweening interference in other peoples' affairs as they have been used to doing. Message Thread: Sharmine Narwani on the end of the Syrian war and the "post-imperial Middle East" - Ken Waldron November 7, 2019, 2:57 am Sharmine introduces a favourite word: angélisme, meaning naive extremes of idealism. Who of the - Rhisiart Gwilym November 7, 2019, 7:13 am "They can make their own missiles, develop their own centrifuges, produce pesticides, chemo drugs, - Rhisiart Gwilym November 7, 2019, 7:44 am Love to know what Sharmine thinks about the "new Arab spring" - David Macilwain November 7, 2019, 9:24 am Lebanon's real problem: foreign currency debt & a lira pegged to the dollar. - Ken Waldron November 7, 2019, 1:22 pm First part: Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America's defeat in Syria - Ken Waldron November 7, 2019, 12:57 pm   Searching