Let's talk about the US' very own nuclear safety:

At the height of the Cold War, on Jan 23, 1961, when the Soviet Union and the United States were standing eye ball to eye ball, the United States of America almost nuked itself.
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https://twitter.com/LodhiMaleeha/status/1581205036868071425

“Keep 19,” a Boeing B-52G-95-BW Stratofortress with the 4241st Strategic Wing, was on a 24-hour airborne alert mission off the Atlantic Coast of the US.
At that time, while the US and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War,the Strategic Air Command kept B-52 bombers,
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“Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world.”

—Napoleon in 1817

Today, China has awakened, and the world is beginning to shake.

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1/9 When Americans complain about how long it takes to build a building or repair a road,authorities often reply that“Rome was not built in a day.”Someone clearly forgot to tell the Chinese. By 2005,the country was building the square-foot equivalent of today’s Rome every 2 weeks
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“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.”

— @harari_yuval
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1/11 Think for a moment about the Agricultural Revolution from the viewpoint of wheat. Ten thousand years ago wheat was just a wild grass, one of many, confined to a small range in the Middle East. Suddenly, within just a few short millennia, it was growing all over the world.

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—THREAD—

▪️Title: #TheAfghanistanPapers
▪️Genre: War history
▪️Published: 2021
▪️Author: @CraigMWhitlock
▪️Length: 368
▪️Description: Secret history of the US' war in Afghanistan
▪️ Ratings : 4.44/5 @goodreads

#ReadPakistan Two weeks after d 9/11 attacks, a reporter asked Donald Rumsfeld, “Would US officials lie to media about military ops in order to mislead enemy?”

Rumsfeld responded by quoting Churchill,“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Plan Dalet: Blueprint for Ethenic Cleansing of Palestine

Thread :

From d earliest days of modern political Zionism,its advocates grappled w/the problem of creating a Jewish majority state in a part of d world where #Palestinian Arabs were d overwhelming majority of d population For many, the solution became known as "transfer," a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

The father of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, wrote in 1895:
"We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries,

Today, Israel blames Hamas for terrorism. But it is a lesser known fact that Israel helped Hamas to grow into one of the world's biggest militant organizations.

For Israel Hamas is a blowback. But how ?

Thread :

#AlAqsaUnderAtrack
#PalestineLivesMatters
#GazaUnderAttak In 1980's, Israel was in conflict with a secular nationalist Palestinian resistance organization called Palestinian Liberation Organization(PLO) led by Yasser Arafat. In 1964, PLO had founded a militant wing called the Fatah. Gradually, this Fatah emerged as one of the most ....

Those who are running trends like #IndiaStandWithIsrael , are negligent of Gandhi's position on the Zionism.

Thread :

In 1938, Martin Buber had been asked by David Ben-Gurion, the first PM and founding father of Israel, to put pressure on several well-known moral figures...
1/6 .... to show their public support for Zionism. They felt that approval from Gandhi, as a leader of nonviolent national struggle against imperialism, would be especially useful, and were prepared to leverage his respect for Buber in order to get it.

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𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

This is an exceptional book by Tim Marshall. The author has divided this book into 10 chapters and each chapter explains geographical advantages and disadvantages of 10 different regions.

[1] I like this book for its relevance to our present day geopolitics and the impact of geography on it. This book emphasizes the importance of geography in the ability to project power in the international arena. Here are few examples :

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وزیراعظم صاحب نے بھى غلط نہیں کہا۔ اور ایران-عراق جنگ سے پہلے فرقہ واریت پاکستان کا رخ کر چکى تھى۔

اسکى تفصیل درج ذیل میں ہے۔
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https://twitter.com/ZaidZamanHamid/status/1348349967644192773

افغانستان پر روسى حملے کے بعد پاکستان سعودى عرب اور امریکہ نے مل کر مجاہدین کى سات سنى مسلک جماتوں کا اتحاد بنایا۔ یہ جماعتیں تھیں:

١-حزبِ اسلامى
٢- محازِ ملى
٣-جمیتِ اسلامى
٤-اتحاد اسلامى
٥- حزب اسلامى خالص
٦-حرکت انقلابِ اسلامى
٧-جبه نجاتِ ملى

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"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we r able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we r near, we must make the enemy believe we r far away; when far away, we must make him believe we r near."

Reference :
The Art of War "If u know the enemy & know urself, u need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

"If u know urself but not the enemy, for every victory gained u will also suffer a defeat."

"If u know neither the enemy nor urself,u will succumb in every battle"

Reference:
The Art of War

An excerpt from "Pakistan A Hard Country" by Anatol Lieven.

#PakistanAHardCountry

#AnatolLieven When compared to India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, things therefore do not look so terrible.

Pakistan is in fact a great deal more like India – or India like Pakistan – than either country would wish to admit.

Reference :

Pakistan A Hard Country.

In 1979 Zia had just provoked worldwide condemnation by executing his former PM; his image both inside & outside Pak was badly tarnished, & he felt isolated. By supporting a Jehad, albeit unofficially, against a
communist superpower he sought to regain sympathy in the west.
1/1 The US would surely rally to his
assistance. As a devout Muslim he was eager to offer help to his Islamic neighbours. That religious, strategic and political factors all seemed to point in the same direction was indeed a happy coincidence.
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#ISI

53 years ago, on this exact day, Israel provoked the Six-Day war by invading Egypt and destroying their airforce on ground. Arab-countries weren't ready for war.Egypt is 1 of the biggest military powers among Arab states.The loss of its airforce was a set back for the Arab World.

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1268874461777924097

So, Syria, Jordan & Iraq decided to help Egypt.Following Syrian, Jordanian, and Iraqi attacks in retaliation, the Israeli Air Force proceeded to bomb air bases in those countries. By noon, the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian Air Forces, with about 450 aircraft, were destroyed.
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On 28th May 1998, Pakistan🇵🇰 conducted its 5 nuclear tests in response to Indian🇳🇪 nuclear tests on 11 & 13 May 1998. India had already conducted cold tests in 1974 which started to disturb the balance of power in South Asia. It triggered Pak to get its own nuke.
1/2 President Z.A. Bhutto forcefully advocated the nuclear option when he got intelligence reports of India's nuclear program and famously said in 1965 that "if India builds the bomb, we will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own".
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#یوم_تکبیر

جب مغرب میں 1440میں printing press ایجاد ہوا تو علماء نے فتواجارى کر دیا کہ یہ عیسائیوں کى ایجاد ہے۔ جس کى وجہ سے ترک عثمانیوں نے printing press کے استمال پر پابندى لگادى۔ آگر قسطنطنیہ میں رات کو ایک کتاب منظرعام پر آتى تو صبح تک پورے یورپ کے مکتب میں وہ کتاب پہنچ چکى ہوتى
(1/n) مگر اس کے بر عکس مسلمان ہاتھ سے ہى کتابیں لکهتے رہے۔ نتیجتاً ایک کتاب کى نقل تیار کرنے میں کئى ہفتے لگ جاتے۔ یورپ نے printing press کے ذریعےاپنے لوگوں میں کتابیں عام کردیں۔
یہى سے یورپ نے مسلمانوں کے مقابلے میں ترقى شروع کى جو آج تک جارى ہے.
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Thread:
Muslim Andalusia(Spain) was once epicenter of European civillization. Its capital Cordoba was equivalent to Bagdad in scientific and literary work. Over 600 libraries dotted Cordoba, the capital.

(1/n) Its largest library
boasted a collection of over 400,000 books in a multitude of languages.Shops
were numerous in the city, producing goods that were valued throughout Europe.Leather,silk,paper,wool and crystal were all produced in Cordoba & traded
throughout Europe.

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