** 04-Feb-2021 World View: WW III Allies
I've read everybody's comments, and all I can say is that the
conclusions that I've posted in the past still seem to me to be valid:
- China and Pakistan are close
- India and Russia are close
- India is bitter enemies with China and Pakistan
- Hindus and Shia Muslims are historic allies
- Saudi's Wahhabi radicals and Pakistan's Sunni radicals are linked.
- Saudi Arabia and Iran are bitter enemies.
If you connect the dots, then it's US+India+Russia+Iran vs
China+Pakistan+Saudi Arabia.
I'm still hedging on Turkey and Azerbaijan, despite the Memri article.
Azerbaijan has a large Turkic Shia population. Kazakhs are Turkic,
but Kazakhstan has a huge Russian population as foreign workers. In
case China invades Kazakhstan, it seems to me that the people of
Turkey, Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan will all come to the defense of
Kazakhstan.
This is all speculative since it's all in the future and depends on
unforeseeable events, but that's my view, based on what I understand
today.