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Curious how they handled the issue of weight. It's one of the things that led to world militaries ditching drum magazines.

Turkey should have more relaxed gun laws regardless. One of the greatest things about America that I will defend to the end is the right for all citizens to bear arms. Second Amendment is my jam.

I've only briefly skimmed it but I noticed something odd in that the author only considers refugee data from 2009-2017. For a paper published in 2021, this is a fairly curious oversight. I'll read the rest of it later but it doesn't give me much hope that he doesn't try to pull some statistical...

I don't think there needs to be any overly academic analysis of refugee statistics to see what the problem is here. Let's look at the facts. The migrants are not being checked. At all. We don't know who they are, where they came from, what they did, anything at all. This emboldens criminal...

The first Turks came to the region as explorers looking for new pastures. Later, the Byzantines invited them in as mercenaries to hold the line against Arabs and Persians. Later waves came as Turks fleeing from the Mongols, which ironically enough included other Turks among their ranks, so it...

I don't think there's anything wrong with hoisting a, for example, Circassian flag if you're doing it on your own property (especially since for Circassians it's more of a cultural throwback to their old heritage as many of them are well-integrated Turkish citizens). Like, for example, a Greek...

You are actually underselling just how completely f***ed the UAE and the Gulf countries in general are when it comes to oil in the next decade. Electric cars are being fast-tracked as a replacement for regular cars all over the world, Europe and the US are already preparing to bring in...

If AKP had any balls or diplomatic sense, they'd be protesting and lobbying against this at every turn.

Just kill this asshole already.

To paraphrase X-Men: First Class, a civil war implies that both sides have an equal chance of winning. I have no love for any of the factions in this fight but Ghani's days are numbered.

Kinda looks like US politics circa 2016 from here, TBH. Although you seem to have less insane lefties than we do (not that the right-wing is incapable of being any less insane). I sorta understand the pressure but there's gonna be a lot of fake news coming out in the next few years so be...

Look, unless your walls are old-school medieval monstrosities that require a siege tower to get over, they will at best slow down border-hoppers for like 10 seconds. What you need are border guards and watchtowers along as many points as possible. Trump's border wall, for example, was a useless...

UAE is a regional rival but I think Greece seriously underestimates how much India would prefer to have Turkey as a solid ally rather than them.

Man, the Rwandan military is hardcore. I remember reading memoirs about some of their paratrooper operations in the 90s, the stuff they pulled off against overwhelming opposition was absolutely insane.

Nationalism is actually growing. It arrived as a replacement for religion as the key human tribal identifier in the 19th century, replacing religion (thanks, French Revolution) and since then it's been slowly replacing religion in that regard. Globalism is never gonna take off unless human...

You know, I'm not the biggest fan of state-driven education but I think it's probably one of the best solutions to fixing corruption and the overall mentality of the people to prevent future Abdulhamids, Mendereses and Erdogans. Children are malleable and one of the reasons why, for example...

Bit harsher than I would've said but yeah. Posting fake news does no favors to anyone. At least have the decency to own up when you screwed up.

OK, I'm genuinely curious, WHY are they all 20-something males? This isn't even a dig at illegal immigration, I'm genuinely curious why there are no women escaping the Taliban. Unless...hey, you guys don't think that Iran might be deliberately holding the women and children and the elderly and...

Ironically enough, going into mass debt while not using that money for anything benefiting the nation was a major problem for the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century. There's a reason it's a favorite tactic of China for pulling other countries' into their orbit and it was a favorite tactic...

How the hell is Siberia on fire, that place is cold enough that you'll get frostbite 3 seconds after going outside. And what is even happening in Africa? You and your family doing OK, Vag? I notice that both your homes are on fire.