From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   SCO was created for countries who are not on the Nazis' side to discuss   
   their issues and find ways to _cooperate_ to solve them. That "C" in the   
   middle of the acronym stands for Cooperation.   
      
   It is being held in Shanghai right now, and Araghchi is attending to ask   
   the big paper tigers why they're so inactive against Nazis and minding   
   their own businesses as long as selling and buying stuff to and from   
   Nazis and paying not too much tariffs are concerned. This will come up,   
   but is not the main reason for his participation of course.   
      
   I've done it before here, but even I cannot find it anymore in the sea   
   of stuff I'm blogged here. So let me briefly go over a few features of   
   SCO once more.   
      
   Just like BRICS, I think and believe that, the significance of SCO is   
   only in coming together of little countries around the world for such   
   discussions, and not in China's and/or Russia's or India's presence   
   there. These huge entities feel safe and are greedy enough to keep   
   things as it is for little countries while they are profiting from   
   Nazis. They're totally useless, to be honest.   
      
   Well, the three mentioned nations describe their own disloyalty to SCO   
   and fickleness by insisting that one of the foundation principles of SCO   
   is "balance", and by that word they mean maintaining relations with   
   Nazis. This is their excuse. So they admit what they are, and what   
   they're doing is not helping SCO, but have an excuse for it.   
      
   Useless. That's what they are.   
      
   I say it for the nth time since it got created around the turn of the   
   century, that the big guys there are insignificant. The significance of   
   SCO is in little countries participating in it ONLY.   
      
   These smaller countries are the ones who help each other under SCO's   
   principles, and that includes counter-terrorism assistance, regional   
   stability, some degree of intelligence sharing, providing economic   
   connectivity, and, if you can believe it, _using_ the big fat paper   
   tigers in creating a safe zone against Nazis.   
      
   THAT's the significance of SCO, not the big fat useless members presence   
   in there.   
      
   And I repeat (I've said it at least 5 or 6 times before) that SCO does   
   not have direct military assistance in its nature. It is no "NATO", so   
   to speak.   
      
   But it goes a long way just the way it is. And only for the little   
   countries in there. For the big fat useless ones it is as good as nothing.   
      
   Another unique feature of SCO is that it "leaves no child behind", so to   
   speak. In voting for a decision for some directive, even one negative   
   vote from any member country will veto that decision and directive. So   
   it is no "UN" that's so ridiculously at the disposal of only 5 or 6   
   countries in the world.   
      
   UN is an abomination against human's dignity. Switzerland, as long as it   
   could still maintain a spirit of self-reliance and dignity, avoided   
   membership in UN. But by early this century Switzerland had fallen and   
   had lost that spirit (read that as: it became Bitch of USA) and joined UN.   
      
   So this unique feature in SCO means that the "C", the Cooperation, is   
   limited to only what can be done for every and all member's benefit. It   
   does not sacrifice some to benefit others. It is no UN, so to speak.   
      
      
   A lot is included in what I described in SCO. A lot can be done, and is   
   being done! But again, almost entirely by the little member nations.   
   Just to give instances of that, look at:   
      
   - trading oil and gas   
   - sharing and creating markets (e.g. Central Asia, Silk Road, ..)   
   - providing bank services   
   - exchanges in science   
   - exchanges in education   
   - exchanges in tourism   
   - networking the member countries' universities   
   - ...   
      
      
   Even in Shah's time, some degree of cooperation between Iran and other   
   little countries were ongoing, cause it just made a lot of sense. I   
   still remember the absolute best teacher of Persian grammar we had in   
   our top high school. He was a very well-dressed, very quiet, tall, and   
   dark-skinned Pakestani :-)   
      
   We _learned_ our own language's grammar perfectly well only because of   
   that Pakestani guy (and a superb text by a team of famous Iranian   
   Persian experts). He had some accent, and he pronounced some words in   
   its correct Persian form (and not in the strange Tehrani way of saying   
   them) but knew the subject like nobody I've seen after. Persian has   
   amazingly deep features that can be used to describe anything that needs   
   description very closely and accurately. We Iranians do not take this   
   feature for granted. That's why Iran is so advanced in quality   
   literature. World-class, really.   
      
   Result? In the university entrance exams held in 1972, some 5 years   
   later, I could still score 100/100 in its definitive Persian language   
   test. "The hardest test" among all other tests in those exams. I was one   
   in five persons only, in those who ended up in Tehran University, who   
   got 100% of the subtle and difficult questions correctly!.. (in Physics   
   test of it I got the 4th place in those who got into Tehran University -   
   not nationally). And I owe my score in Persian to nobody but that   
   Pakestani teacher.   
      
   He (unfortunately I have forgotten his name) was part of an educational   
   exchange program with Pakestan in 1960s :-)   
      
   Pakestanis love Iran, mainly because they understand Persian and have   
   the exact same history that they share, and they can appreciate good   
   Persian literature. Pakestan _was_ Iran till 1872, when the British took   
   her away from Iran.   
      
   So SCO is effective, believe me. But really only to little nations. The   
   big ones don't need anything at all. If they say otherwise, they're   
   speaking out of their asses. They're fine as things are today and their   
   heads are indeed up their own asses.   
      
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