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I'd gladly trade our spot as F1 hosts to Turkey as well if it meant we wouldn't have to spend upwards of a week with all of Baku's traffic becoming even more of an unmanageable hell than it usually is. Istanbul doesn't seem to have the issues with cramped space that Baku does.

Iran will never be stupid enough to try and attack Azerbaijan directly. They'd get wrecked and probably lose a good portion of their land as well. They are good at proxy warfare but they have attempted in the past to use proxies to wield influence in Azerbaijan and it has failed miserably. I...

This will change nothing, youth unemployment has majorly to do with the fact that a lot of Turkish youth is overqualified yet is offered bad jobs for bad pay. You can't fix that by training people to be toilet cleaners or whatever. You fix that by fixing the economy and making people believe...

I find that difficult to believe, firstly because there's no way the US Army would ever let any government official reveal the number of nukes in our possession and secondly because I strictly remember hearing on last count that we had more than Russia, which has around 4000.

Feel sorry for those young sailors. Imagine becoming the symbol of national embarrassment on an international stage because your senior officers screwed you over in training.

"I have a dream that PKK carves out a bloody chunk of Turkey in the future." - A hypothetical Assad supporter. Let's not stoop down to that level, shall we? Don't contribute to the stereotype of Turks as having short fuses and long tongues.

Reddit is, pardon my French, a s***hole. Literally nothing there should be taken as an indicator of the overall feeling of the average American or European or Asian or whatever. Hell, even the Azerbaijani and Turkish subreddits there are a mess from what I've seen. It's just a festering cesspool...

I like to believe that the US government isn't that colossally stup...oh, who am I kidding, we're totally this stupid. Good news is that more than half of the US population now hates their government, so if Turkey were any good at international propaganda, you could do some major damage to...

And to my complete lack of surprise, of course Ilham Aliyev was in that list. $400 million...I swear, if you were to take all of the money being traded on the Azerbaijani "black market" and the amount that our ministers steal on an annual basis, our official GDP would be at least 4 times bigger...

Not that I think F-35 is an irredeemable piece of trash but you aren't really familiar with the US military-industrial complex if you think the army ordering lots of F-35s is an indicator of anything other than a money laundering scheme. It's not a completely garbage plane and I don't think a...

What's the award for? I'm guessing it's something to do with architecture? But what did the PKK build that merits this?

The freaking nerve of these people to compare themselves to the citizens of Afghanistan. Also, conveniently omitting that these same "allies" went running to Assad the moment TAF started bombing their asses to oblivion. What does "respond" mean? Launch artillery strikes at empty desert plains?

It wasn't just a few weeks though. It's been kind of an open secret that Azerbaijani army personnel travel to Turkey to receive training for many years now, hell I think we even used drones in limited numbers in 2016 (though not TB2s). The tactics weren't perfect either, there are a few post-war...

Huh, that's odd. In my experience, transportation (truck driving, etc) is the one area of national infrastructure that's never short on willing employees, especially in times of economic crisis.

This is pretty much the moment of truth for TAF. Either they strike back or they pull out. It's interesting what's going to ultimately win out - loyalty to AKP/Erdogan or their own survival instincts. If it's the latter, they'll start killing Russians in self-defense and damn the consequences...

If this happened because of what I think, then the entirety of TASC is staffed by, for lack of a better word, intellectually deficient individuals.

Seems a rank higher than a MRBM.

Eh? TAF certainly provided training to our forces and Turkey sold/gave us equipment but they weren't making battle strategies for Azerbaijan's armed forces.

This. We have people in America who constantly screech about workers being paid s**t wages (and rightfully so) but seem painfully blind to the fact that raising the minimum wage will not fix this problem. I am honestly not sure what will. Is there stuff like worker unions in Turkey?

I feel like the only reason some EU countries are kind of benign towards Turkey is because of the refugee guard role. If Turkey were to just straight up tell the entire EU to go f**k themselves, watch how quickly the mood changes. Countries like Hungary, Poland and Italy, for example, which are...