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The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

My mom asked how long the India v Pakistan wars have been fought and most sources say 1947, since that is the partitioning of India. However, the roots of the conflict date back to the old Persian Empire and started about 2600 years ago. Almost as long as the Jews and Arabs have been fighting.

I'm sure this will have a happy ending.
 
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You really could just boil it down to this, and throw in religion and a shitty colonial exit by the limeys.

Pakistan wants Kashmir because it's majority Muslim. India wants Kashmir, ostensibly because it was historically part of "their" territory, but mainly because they fear Muslims. Both wanted to rig the 1947 Kashmir referendum established by the Brits, so Pakistan sent in militia groups and India responded by getting the last prince of Kashmir to request help from the Indian military. Two years later, the UN established the Line of Control and it's been that way ever since.
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Also a lot of Kashmir drains into the Indus, which is important to Pakistan.
 
TIL Agnes von Waiblingen, grand dame of the Ghibelline family (and Hohenstaufen ruling dynasty) in 11th century Germany and Italy, brought 29 pregnancies to term during her lifetime -- 11 by her first husband and 18 by her second. She was first married at 14.

Note the competing family, the Guelphs, still exists, in part in the persons of the current House of Windsor.
 
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If you didn't see the new Swedish National Security Advisor, you missed your chance. Announced this morning, walked out after 2 hours. Nobody knows what happened.
 
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The Economist is running an article that explains the transformation of MBS from troublemaker to peacemaker. Apparently seven years gone by is all it takes to forget about the assassination of an American journalist.
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The Economist is committed to the Art of the Possible, until you challenge the World Bank or the IMF.
 
Least somebody learned from history.

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has banned the far-right group "Königreich Deutschland" ("Kingdom of Germany"), a faction within the so-called "Reichsbürger" (Reich Citizens) movement, accusing it of trying to establish a "counter-state" within Germany.

The ban came as police on Tuesday conducted raids on the properties of key members of the group in seven German states, making four arrests, including that of Peter Fitzek, the self-declared monarch of the "Kingdom."
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Justifying the ban on the group, Dobrindt said, "The members of this association have created a 'counter-state' in our country and built up criminal economic structures."

"In this way, they undermine the rule of law and the Federal Republic's monopoly on the legitimate use of force," he added. "At the same time, they use antisemitic conspiracy narratives to back up their supposed claim to authority."

The ban also includes associated splinter groups.
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Actual good news. Not for rightwing authoritarians; they just lost one of their most dependable boogiemen. Erdogan better do some QUIK-E-GENOCIDE a la Bibi before the people realize they don't have to put up with his withered impotent ass anymore.

The Kurdish militant group known as the PKK announced this week that it would end its "work under the name of PKK." The announcement has been hailed as the end of a decades-long armed insurgency, one that has cost an estimated 40,000 lives, between the Turkish state and those fighting for Kurdish rights or independence inside Turkey.

But this week's announcement won't just impact Turkey. The Kurds are an around-40-million-strong ethnic group. If they had their own country, it would be located around the point where the Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish borders meet. As an ethnic minority in each of those countries, various Kurdish resistance groups and political parties have also pushed for Kurdish self-determination, some violently, some non-violently. Many have been connected with the PKK, or Kurdish Worker's Party, one way or another.
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Largest ethnic groups without a state of their own (and the state where most live):

1. Adavisi (India)
2. Tamil (India)
3. Telugu (India)
4. Cantonese (China)
5. Oromo (Kenya)
6. Yoruba (Nigeria)
7. Kurds (Turkey)
 
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And perhaps some more.

Dump is bad for the Nazi brand.

Far-right MEP, Grzegorz Braun's result was a nasty surprise for Poland's liberal voters.

Braun made headlines in 2023 when he put out the candles on a Jewish menorah in the Polish parliament with a fire extinguisher following a ceremony for the festival of Hanukkah.

Braun called the festival "satanic". During a presidential debate last month he said: "Jews have far too much say in Polish affairs."
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