CMPunkReturns

Geopolitics for a country is like cocaine; gives you an instant high, confidence and that feeling of taking over the world, but it is almost always followed by a crash. Governance reforms are like going to the gym and working out. It's controlled pain, muscle breakdown, and recovery, a painstakingly slow process, that progressively builds strength over time. It gives a stable high and long term benefits. Great nations are built through reforms, and ruined through obsessive geopolitics.

I quoted him exactly as he said. The clip was already viral on X. After watching the full video, I deleted my post because people were twisting it out of context. How does this amount to a blasphemy accusation?

Explosions in Isfahan, Iran following U.S.-Israeli airstrikes.

Not analysis, but I get why some in the US are frustrated with how the Iran war is going, and others are worried about the long-term damage, globally and regionally, and the people caught in it, but if those most responsible for the operation don’t accept that things aren’t going well, they’ll just keep making more mistakes and make it worse for everyone. I am saying this as someone who is very hawkish on Iran, and generally favourable towards our American friends.

There’s been aerial bombing near the Embassy of Pakistan and the residence of the Pakistani ambassador in Tehran in Iran a very short while ago, All Pak Diplomats are Safe but shook — This while Pakistan alongside Turkey and Egypt is doing the shuttle diplomacy for deescalation