Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity

S04E07 The Islamic State in Inner Asia

This episode is the second part of an article - The Triple Faces of Inner Asia, which was written and published in early 2015. “...The export of the Roman order is not free of cost. It must be at the cost of consuming the domestic political resources of the United States. The conditions and procedures for the purchase of the Roman order by the nations will inevitably constitute an important constitutional issue for the future world...Today Moscow during Eid feels more Bagdad than Bagdad itself, or rather, it feels more Istanbul than its precursor Constantinople before its eventual fall to the Ottomans. The Muslims in Russia are different from those in Europe. ”

S04E06 Inner Asia in International Relations

This episode is the first part of an article - The Triple Faces of Inner Asia (內亞的三重面相), which was written and published in early 2015. "...Pakistan maximally demonstrates the dilemma that Inner Asia presents to the United States. Other than the hatred against India, this country does not have any natural and genuine ties to unite its communities... Afghanistan is another country without natural bonds. Her borders and existence were to meet the needs of being a buffer country between Britain and Russia. They are totally inconsistent with the needs of the local residents to establish a community if they do have such needs..

S04E05 Dealing with the vacuum left by the withdrawal

"...Most of the fund has to be used to feed the troops and there is no cash left to buy oil. Yet Iran has already sent the oil to Kabul. Who is advancing this money? Surely not the US. Iran is extremely short of dollars and it can only be deduced that China has advanced this money to Iran. This is very similar to the practices of Chinese espionage in Ethiopia, Burma, and indeed around the world in the last two years."

S04E04 China's imperial gamble in Afghanistan

“China is an inexperienced neo-imperialist, so almost everywhere it has pursued neo-imperialism, going beyond the US framework and building its own framework, there have been serious political crises. Three typical examples are Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Ethiopia...But at least in the Obama era, China was only an ancillary among the various players in Afghanistan - a humble wage earner... All these endeavors are without exception economically unprofitable, even loss-making, but they will provide China with a large and solid backstop outside the US system.”

S04E03 The Islamic State is more like the Communist International

"The Taliban can be converted, integrated, and disbanded while the Islamic State is a lifelong vowed professional revolutionary organization that cannot be disbanded but only annihilated... Judging from IS documents seized by the US, the Islamic State exhibits, contrary to prevailing impressions, striking similarities to the Communist International and the Soviet Union... History shows the Taliban is likely to be a transitory phenomenon that shall gradually be swallowed up by the Islamic State. "