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Future of Syria

Dozens of armed groups are fighting in Syria, for and against the Syrian government as well as ISIS and Al Qaeda. Relatively peaceful middle , other than the Israeli Palestinian conflicts become hot spot of bloodshed and mayhem. Anyone who observed the international crisis in the past few decades will realize that all of this will be the fall out of Iraqi Invasion of United States and its allies. Though various terrorist organizations existed long before, their reach and intensity was of a limited amount. The disbanded Iraqi soldiers and officers, who had years of experience in War and battlefield, have no other choices for their livelihood, other than fighting for some Islamist groups including ISIS and al Qaeda, which exploited their experiences. Now, United States with its allies are arming and training anti-Assad groups in Syria, the same way what they did a few decades back, arming and training the Afghans against then Soviet Union. After the collapse o...

The Sun never setting empire’s struggle for survival

Like ancient Rome, British Empire once stretched from the Americas to Australia, after the World Wars, and changing socio economic conditions forced Britain to abandon most of its colonies. A nation which started the industrial revolution, and dominated the entire world in early seventeenth century is facing a bleak twenty first century, Britain is in a desperate position, to depend on another nation even for its own defense from a power like, Russia, China or the United States. Devastated, and heartbroken following a series of setback in recent times, starting from Brexit, series of terror attacks, radicalization of British Muslims, flooding of refugees from the middle east and Africa, as well as widening gap between Britain and its former colonies in Asia ,Africa, America and Australia. Every empire in history had a time of rise and fall, and for Britain, it is the time extinction? Britain’s intention to dominate the European Union resulted in a backlash ...