Recent content by Anastasius

Except we have footage of Ukraine using them far beyond "the very beginning of the war in Ukraine".

You are. Military cooperation is based on practical considerations not political shitflinging. Turkey has had the S-400 for years now, I guarantee you that everything that could've been learned and reverse engineered from it, has been.

I would just like to post that this means nothing. They may have some Turkic blood in them but they have no problem oppressing Turkic minorities in Iran and view themselves as wholeheartedly culturally Persian.

I don't think you're aware of how gullible and overly emotional a large segment of the US public is. I'm not even talking about the MAGA crew but regular Americans who already don't particularly care for anyone or anything in the Middle-East and are only lukewarm on the idea of permanent...

That would be insanely stupid and would give warhawks in the US all the ammo they need to declare Iran a serious threat to American interests and rile up public support. It's the opposite of having brains. Targeting Israel and avoiding seriously targeting the US gives Iran some leeway in...

Funny thing is that Pahlavis are majority Azerbaijani too. The current Pahlavi "heir to the throne" is like 65% Azerbaijani by blood. Kinda like how most of the Russian historical nobility were descended from the elite of the Golden Horde who got assimilated into Russian culture. Not that it...

Kinda hoping these stupid pricks break the ceasefire again so the Syrian government can just steamroll them all without having to play nice so I can stop hearing about these a-holes once and for all.

Azerbaijan would absolutely back Turkey in this case, not only would it prevent continued abuse of our ethnic brethren but if Turkey controlled South Azerbaijan it would also mean an end to Iranian drug cartels attempting to smuggle goods through Azerbaijan since they commonly use the land...

Holy shit. Even assuming that the Syrian government might be slightly exaggerating the territorial gains, this is an absolutely piss-poor showing for the SDF. They folded like paper.

Does anyone have an updated map of the situation on the ground?

Wow, this is like Assad's Downfall 2.0.

I mean you say it is wishful thinking but it actually happened. For only a few weeks and it was destroyed due to a combined agreement of the USSR, Britain and America but it did happen.

A democratic republic would be ideal. The shah would be nothing more than a puppet to foreign interests.

US took over the country and was dealing with an insurgency for 20 years before deciding that there was no point staying with no concrete goal. The equivalent would be Russia taking over Ukraine and dealing with an insurgency not being stuck in grueling trench warfare for almost as long as the...

That was much faster than I thought, nice.