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The war in Ukraine is a once-in-a-hundred-years kind of opportunity. It's difficult to overstate how much Turkey could win on this if it plays its cards right.

This is logical. You don't open with threats, you start with negotiations first. The bigger problem is getting rid of the illegals. Where do you dump them? They'll just keep trying to sneak back in unless Turkish people start lynching them. Gen Z are more conservative than their predecessors...

Apparently she was 13 and is now 17 with 3 children. He supposedly "fell in love" with her at first sight. And chewed her out for speaking Turkish on video and demanded she speak Urdu. I recall a similar case in France where a Pakistani migrant tried to kidnap and rape a little Russian girl...

If your concern is that the opposition will roll back investment in the defense sector, etc, I'm afraid your concerns are unfounded. Turkey's defense industry has been pushing on since the 70s and the Cyprus conflict. That kind of industrial investment is near impossible to contain by the...

Azerbaijan has a very strict border control policy. We wouldn't even let Afghan refugees into the country. Even Hazaras, who are probably the most abused ethnic group in Afghanistan and have some degree of a Turkic connection and sympathy from most of the general populace, have difficulties...

Illegal immigrants should not be allowed period, educated or not. People continuously seem to misunderstand one thing, here in America as well: IF PEOPLE DON'T EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO RESPECT THE LAW OF NATIONAL BORDERS, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY WILL RESPECT OTHER LAWS? They are criminals -...

Also, another example of the lengths Russian media will go to in order to defend their incompetence: Signs of black magic found at the headquarters of the Ukrainian military I half expect them to start claiming Ukrainian soldiers are killing Russian troops with Avada Kedavras if this goes on.

Please shut up and stop embarrassing the nation. You might be the first Azerbaijani I've come across unironically defending Russia's usual modus operandi. Are you not aware of what they did to us?

No, it's quite possible to send them back. Deportations of millions are not a new thing nor especially heinous. "But what if the refugees violently resist?" Then they essentially forfeit all their human rights and become a rogue element that the Turkish government won't even have to treat with...

This seems to be more of a problem with the justice system to be honest. Sure the demographics are concerning but the rapes, killings, etc, seem to be mainly a cause of lax law enforcement standards. American-style policing, for all its problems, does help curb such problems with overwhelming...

Not sure what Buryats, Dagestanis, Tatars, etc, are waiting for. The Russians are using them as expendable cannon fodder and no uprisings. Also class act by the Ukrainians going maximum cringe with the racism in the comments.

Do people assume that megalomaniacs have no sense of self-preservation? Even bonafide nutjobs like Jeffrey Dahmer had that.

In the future, nuclear non-proliferation will be considered one of the greatest policy mistakes of the 20th century. Those who wanted to get them, got them through other means anyway and those that followed the rules found themselves defenseless.

He is pissed at Germany too. He's been doing this "everyone is throwing us to the dogs, poor Ukraine is all alone" act since basically the first week of the conflict. On one hand I can definitely understand his plight. He is stuck begging people for assistance to help fight Russia and the only...

Most people thought the Ghost of Kyiv was a made-up morale booster for Ukrainians anyway. I'm still not sure that he isn't and this isn't just another attempt to boost credibility by slapping the moniker on some random Ukrainian pilot but whatever.

General Putin has stepped onto the battlefield:

I wonder if foreign investment like Turkey's in Karabakh is behind these current changes: Normally I wouldn't place much stock in Aliyev's promises but he does seem to see the writing on the wall and might ease off on the insane levels of corruption in our industrial sector at least to some...

I think the most shocking part of this map is that China was generous enough to allocate some Russian land to Japan.

Oh nice, you moved them again. And you turned the wreck upside-down too so people wouldn't be able to compare to older ones. :LOL:

Reminds me of an anecdote I once heard: A tourist gets held up by an armed man in Northern Ireland who asks "Catholic or Protestant?" The tourist says "I am an atheist." The armed man contemplates this for a moment then asks "Catholic atheist or Protestant atheist?"