What may be a bit surprising is that Iranians--even the minorities like Baluchis, Bahai, and Jews, who are treated even worse by the regime than majority Persians--are fierce nationalists and resent the foreign opponents' economic and military attacks.
U.S. intervention was quite the foil for mostly inept Latin American populists last century. China seems to be proceeding with a bit more caution, but we’ll see
The United States granted (“relinquished” perhaps a better word) independence to the Philippines in 1946 and Great Britain to India in 1947, when a pragmatic calculation of the continued military and financial costs of ruling those territories necessitated by having to suppress nationalistic movements became greater than a majority in Congress and in Parliament could tolerate, sensing that their respective citizens and subjects could stand it no more.
What may be a bit surprising is that Iranians--even the minorities like Baluchis, Bahai, and Jews, who are treated even worse by the regime than majority Persians--are fierce nationalists and resent the foreign opponents' economic and military attacks.
U.S. intervention was quite the foil for mostly inept Latin American populists last century. China seems to be proceeding with a bit more caution, but we’ll see
So he's who Quezon City is named after?
The United States granted (“relinquished” perhaps a better word) independence to the Philippines in 1946 and Great Britain to India in 1947, when a pragmatic calculation of the continued military and financial costs of ruling those territories necessitated by having to suppress nationalistic movements became greater than a majority in Congress and in Parliament could tolerate, sensing that their respective citizens and subjects could stand it no more.
Donald Trump is not a conspicuous student of history, or an inconspicuous one.