Recent content by Costin84

Those monarchs adapted quickly to their new country's interests. The German Hohhenzolern king of Romania went to war in WW1 against..........Germany.

Erdogan plays the ummah card again and goes for another cheap attack against its main economic partner,Europe. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/virus-of-islamophobia-making-europe-a-prison-for-muslims-turkish-president/2239354# Result? Lira goes from 8.23 to 8. 43 Btw, you can hear crickets...

What a disgusting lie and blatant twist of historical truth.

It was actually natural, especially as the Ottomans and AH empires were just prisons of nations, not viable for the modern world.

It depends on what you define Europe's choices to keep Turkey as an ally. Western Europe always had a love/hate relationship with Turkey, protecting it in the 19th century, dismantling it in the 20th ( you might think it was personal, it was not, Austro-Hungaria was dismantled to and Germany...

Help yourself first as much as you can. Seriously? It's not about hiring a mercenary wich happens to have US citizenship but having security guarantees from the US.

US presence is a deterence. Even if you have 100 American soldiers stationed in your country, it's not them you fear but the flag behind them.

Sry but I find it hilarious how people go around saying they won't do things that no one actually asked them to do in the first place. Nevermind the ridiculous "Russia will annex the Baltics",rhetoric.. Even if the Russian danger was real and Turkey an asset, recognition of the Armenian genocide...

Everyone looks for security guarantees from the US and other Western Powers.

I am amazed how detached from reality most posters in here are.Absolutely NO ONE in Europe looks to Turkey as their protector from Russia. Nor will Russia invade and annex the 3 Baltic countries. You heard it here first.

My father had both Moderna shots, mum just the first.Both are OK,no obvious side effects.

You must be talking about Bosnia....

Romanian police will investigate a possible poaching case involving an Austrian prince who is reported to have “wrongly” killed a massive male bear in a trophy hunt on a visit to the country’s Carpathian Mountains in March, authorities said Wednesday. Official hunting documents seen by The...

Let's hope for a win in Croatia, future orders from India,Greece and the UAE.

With deliveries starting in 2024 it should be the F4 variant. Congratulations to Egypt, they have a very potent AF and now enough Rafales to actually count.