#1 The proposed Sino-Thai "Kra Canal" Project, control of any + all International trade flows via Straits of Malaccas, + MALAYO-INDONESIAN CALIPHATE.
Lest we fergit, the GWOT + Islamist Jihad > as much as an INTER-MUSLIM COMPETITION AMONG MAJOR OR HISTORICAL ISLAMIC CENTRES OF THOUGHT + MILPOL POWER, as it is vee Islam/Islamism-vs-Non-Islam.
Pragmatically, 'tis the waging of Jihad WHERE THE US-NATO + GREAT POWERS ARE NOT, or in alternate WHERE THEIR INFLUENCE IS WEAK = NOT WELL/STRONGLY ESTABLISHED. |