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Don't fret I'm not with him on the specifics, just that engaging far and wide in the middle-east is prudent policy; retreating into your shell cannot sustain an ambitious outlook in terms of energy policy, maritime trade and a military and diplomatic forward base for opening up markets.

Well, that's beside the point. Domestic mismanagement is no excuse for international disengagements. Engaged foreign policy breeds sophistication among the politicians of a country and creates a tradition of astute realpolitik analysis and veteran intelligence people. These are aspects which all...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/new-top-diplomat-saar-calls-for-boosting-kurdish-ties-admits-failures-in-amsterdam-response/

Whatever I said here is with an assumption of semi-rational actors; people Trump is appointing right now are mostly people blind with Zionist rage (or at least pretending to be for monetary reasons). So all those apprehensions and calculations might be null and void if only thing you want is to...

Oooh I hadn't seen this; the world is sure funny when you know nothing about it.

Also just learnt about this book by Adnan Oktar (Referring to this book, an Arab commentator said Harun Yahya is a Jewish Turkish writer :ROFLMAO:): https://www.nadirkitap.com/israil-in-kurt-karti-israil-in-ortadogu-strateji-ve-kurt-devleti-senaryolari-harun-yayha-kitap39338116.html

I think it's mostly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_the_periphery With the Kurdish part of that being linked with the plan for weakening the Islamic republic through civil strife, to maybe in the end bring the Iranian Kurdistan under the Barzanis (they had the Iranian part...

sounds quite far-fetched anyway. I've been delving into the other point they bring up about this whole Ocalan thing, i.e. this all being about a war in Iran. The more I read realist voices from inside Iran and Israel and also since perusing a couple of books on the negotiations between...

Funny thread title; you can just plainly rename it to "Wikipedia".

Was it Özdil who was saying that the plan might be to try and propagandize the populace that they will claim Turkey will expand or sth (into Iraq and Syria) to then give autonomy to the southeast?

That link was not that important as that was reported far and wide, I just copy/pasted the first link I came across concerning the issue: ex-CIA chief said it as reported here in the Guardian for instance...

I had a session with Nassim Taleb once, we talked for like 40 minutes; I'd not debate him, I know my limits.

you're shifting the goalpost.

How do you not pay VAT? It's 20% and 10% in Turkey. And then there's ÖTV, and then there's huge tariffs on many imported goods which are a form of import VAT tax effectively. Putting these three together, some imported goods cost 4x the price.

U.S. is responsible and instigator of all of those conflicts and will be the one to instigate and responsible for the Iran one as well. One doesn't (I don't use the generic "you" to avoid confusion) get to go to a region thousands of miles away, attack and destabilize each and every one of these...

This one hit me hard. Some of the dumbest people alive are determining the fate of our world, holy fucking shit.

I mean it's fine; the "your" use as a generic "your" should be quite obvious. The issue about Trump not actually being anti-war or anything resembling that is that U.S. and its western allies have sanctioned Iran to the ground crippling its economy and completely blocking its ability to trade...