Recent content by Rooxbar

These people talk like U.S. has alien technology. It comes from a place of sense of deep inferiority.

Personally I don't understand this sentiment. There's a mythological understanding about laissez-faire markets presupposed in this critique. All major corporations throughout capitalism's history have been in some sense joint-ventures with the state, esp. in terms of foreign policy and gunboat...

They have no clue that they are eating the fruits of the era which was the apex of public education in this country which was the Anadolu selective high school program (when they were actually selective and merit based) and also the technical know-how transfer, training and expertise which came...

Well most of U.S. political and finance elite are Zionists, so I don't know how accurate it is to say U.S. as a political entity doesn't want a war and is separate from Zionists. The left flank of democrats which is about 30% of their voter base and less than 10% of their prominent political...

It's good to know how they think and what worries them the most.

Listen: esp. interesting is 1:05:49 about the stupidity of our current admin in playing their hands so openly because of domestic politics.

That's the only fashion that it can fall. Any other fashion will be just aesthetic (a la Venezuela, i.e. reformist faction inside or a specific part of the irgc taking over). But even that is against our interests, as any aesthetic change will come with a change of political culture and rhetoric...

Nadir was an interesting figure. You can read about his long-term plan to steer away the country from Shiism to Sunni-adjacent madhab in the book Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran by Ernest S. Tucker (2006); the book is based on contemporary and first-hand accounts of...

This is a core principle of Islamism. The nationalist "intermezzo" was a tactical maneuver borne out of electoral necessity and to distract away from FETÖ-CIA connection.

That's the chinese way. They have treaties and contracts all around the world (some from 20 years ago) they haven't moved an inch towards.

The problem arises from their core ideology; Islamists don't see foriegn policy through the lens of national interest, but from the lens of Ummah. When you are that blindly dedicated to certain ideology you can be tricked into making decisions by coaxing from foreign intelligence assets into...

We're now at the "Israeli jets flying across Turkish-Syrian border" stage of "bir gece ansızın gelebiliriz.”

The same goes for all other middle powers. It's a matter of conjencture and opening up of the IR space due to various factors since late aughts, including the rise of China.

They're not stupid, those shows are made with one demographic in mind: housewives. That's why they get to show 30 minutes is ads in-between their 3 hour shows, it's the time the housewife attends to the dinner, tea, etc. They complain when the ads are to short. 😂

I think the Chinese might be doing something like this with WS-15, for all we know. It's funny though that they announced the engine is ready back in 2006 and it still hasn't been fully integrated.