For what plausible reason would you invade and occupy a city with a population of over 10 million?
Surely this is a failure of imagination, rather than a complete impossibility?
In the last few years we have seen:
The US Airforce providing aircover for Iranian militias.[1]
Turkey shoot down a Russian fighter/bomber over Syria[2] and then become close (?) allies[3]
The Philippines win a ruling against Chinese actions in the South China sea[4], then decide to ally with China and accept Chinese ambitions in the South China sea[5], and then return to their original position (maybe?)[6]
The world's most populous Islamic nation has a Christian governor of its capital city[7].
The UK voted to exit the EU, but no one is quite sure how it will happen
And Donald Trump won the US election.
So yeah.. I have no idea why the US would want to invade and occupy a 10M+ population city. But it is entirely possible something like that could happen.
Surely this is a failure of imagination, rather than a complete impossibility?
In the last few years we have seen:
The US Airforce providing aircover for Iranian militias.[1]
Turkey shoot down a Russian fighter/bomber over Syria[2] and then become close (?) allies[3]
The Philippines win a ruling against Chinese actions in the South China sea[4], then decide to ally with China and accept Chinese ambitions in the South China sea[5], and then return to their original position (maybe?)[6]
The world's most populous Islamic nation has a Christian governor of its capital city[7].
The UK voted to exit the EU, but no one is quite sure how it will happen
And Donald Trump won the US election.
So yeah.. I have no idea why the US would want to invade and occupy a 10M+ population city. But it is entirely possible something like that could happen.
[1] https://warisboring.com/american-coalition-is-providing-clos...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo...
[3] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37045724
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_v._China
[5] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/philippines-duterte-ch...
[6] http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2016/11/13/ro...
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basuki_Tjahaja_Purnama