Originally Posted by
Geriaviator
@LW50:
Just as the Russians have done in Ukraine. Yet again I wonder what hold Putin must hold over Trump, who has turned his back on Ukraine so enabling Putin to divert drones from Ukraine and send them and know-how to Iran to attack American assets and West-facing friendly countries in the Gulf ?
WRT PRC, there is a unique level of disincentive to innovation within their defence forces, expect to see any innovation driven by the proxy, in this case Iran, which has mixed history in innovation. Authoritarian regimes tend to be incompatible with flexible thinking.
NVN was not an exception it was always a nationalist movement that happened to get support from the Soviet and PRC, but its people were more communal in nature than authoritarian droids. The greatest disservice the west can be to its own interests is to make the case for national unity of an oppressed group, which is what Bibi has forgotten from the history of Israel itself; uniting a population with a common hatred towards your own group doesn't end well (see Coalition Provisional Authority Order 1: De-Ba'athification of Iraqi Society; Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2: Dissolution of Entities).