Silent Lonesome Man

What shocked the world most was the eventual collapse of the whole Afghan civilian administration after just a week in charge following the United States' withdrawal, the return of the Taliban even made it complicated when the group has slowly revealed its terror-based medieval ideology to rule Afghanistan once it came back to power in Kabul. Afghanistan was led by a civilian, but highly ineffective government, built by the United States. The devastation was beyond just military use - but it is also far worse. It's about the United States' honour suffered a fatal blow. Joe Biden, a protégé of Barack Obama and was expected to deliver a mission to recover the U.S. from the destructive policies of Donald Trump, saw his popularity plummeted. Many allies began to realise something, which is painful, also what Russia and China wanted to tell them for a long time: the U.S. is not trustworthy at all. This is creating a huge emotional and political crisis that has never been experie...

The United States officially recognised the Armenian Genocide in 2019, when Congress issued state recognition of the mass atrocities against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The effort was rebuffed by then-President Donald Trump, who has a harmonious relationship with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but when Trump lost in the 2020 election, Joe Biden officially broke out from the predecessors and finally stated the same on April 24, 2021. Armenians are certainly happy, while Turkish and Azerbaijani nationalists are definitely dissatisfied with what they just saw. Unfortunately for the United States, the recognition could be a reckless move, since the recognition may have also unravelled how the alliance between the West to Turkey is moving spiral backwards. And this can be even more menacing for Washington D.C. because their recognition of the genocide might leave Turkey to project its ambitions independently and clashing with even NATO, EU and in general Western world, leave alon...

Ever since the Euromaidan and tensions increased between Ukraine and Russia, Kyiv has sought to become a prominent player within Europe, by trying to join NATO and EU. But while France and Germany have become more reluctant to accept Ukraine into the EU, due to the unwanted Brexit that saw the United Kingdom left the group, joining NATO maybe even more problematic because NATO also has members who share veto powers. One of them is Turkey, as Kyiv has been seeking to cultivate a friendlier alliance. Now, with U.S. President Joe Biden going to address the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, this can become a problem for Kyiv. Pro-Turkish and anti-Armenian views Ukraine has been at the spotlight when the Euromaidan when Ukrainians joined the protest demanding the pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, to leave power. The Maidan lasted for a year before it successfully toppled the President, forcing him to flee to Russia. The first death in the Maidan was a Ukrainian national of Armen...

A day ago, I heard that the ethnic Karens, a Christian minority living in the Southeast bordering Thailand, had fled into the Thai border trying to get refuge in Thailand. Then, only a few hours later, a new report surged that the Thai government had instructed its soldiers to expel any kind of refugees fleeing to Thailand under the pretext that "the border is safe". And this came after the Karen National Union addressed its support for anti-coup protesters in Myanmar and its assault on a military outpost that killed 10 Tatmadaw soldiers. The Tatmadaw, or Burmese Armed Forces, has been retaliating violently and dispatching over 4,000 troops trying to crush the Karens, like how they're doing to its own citizens. Thus, Thailand's reaction has been very much appalling and is harmful to the Karens. For the wider international community, this move is condemned and it shows that Thailand is complicity in helping the Burmese junta in killing Burmese citizens; only weeks ago,...