02-08-2017, 02:35 PM
Also JohnX seems convinced on certain Alignments of countries. Take for example China's military alliances, China has traditionally (for most of the last 35 years or so) relied on Iran as its primary partner for military alliances. Saudi Arabia has usually been a distant second in terms of technology sharing for China than Iran has Been. Turkey has traditionally been Firmly in the US sphere. Yet JohnX says that Russia and the US will ally and that Iran would be aligned to the west, while turkey and Saudi Arabia, two countries that have been western aligned since before WW2 would suddenly ally with China against both the West and Russia?