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haha :ROFLMAO: , the question about how the west got rich is not an impossible question to answer, but an impossible question to answer in a succinct but satisfactory way (on a non-academic setting like an internet forum nonetheless, where everyone is probably convinced their version of...

oh boy 😂

Also:

Fatih Portakal iran ordusuna katılmış.

Russian preparation and the kind of mobilization and the number of troops with which they attacked Ukraine, betrayed the fact of their plan a and plan b from the get-go (i.e. you cannot conquer a country of that size, with that kind of mobilization). The little stunt with the march to Kiev was a...

NATO is 80% U.S. If Sweden is trying to get into NATO it's because of U.S. persuasion, in order for them to have a more pronounced military presence in the Arctic as the ice melts away. Turkey has been trying to have conversations about U.S. role in propping up PKK in Syria, which they are...

Western institutions and mainstream media have been screeching about fake news for the past 7 years.

Something being an election stunt doesn't categorically make it bad. Important thing is, is it being done? is it being funded? are they employing engineers for the job? are they trying to fill in the gaps in experience by cooperating with foreign firms? If an admin sees enthusiasm for a...

When reality is too hard to bear, you resort to myth-making.

You probably saw this guy harass a vendor in New York, later to be identified as a high ranking official, working 22 years in the state department, and a deputy director during Obama years (working as he says on the Afghanistan-Pakistan region). Here's an interview he did before being ousted as...

The fact that July comes before August in my calendar is beside the point. Even if we agree that initially for like two months AKP didn't intervene (contrary to all the evidence, some of which you posted yourself, including the Erdoğan speech), this was all before U.S. active involvement. The...

I mean this is cognitive dissonance. You acknowledge the fact that ÖSO was formed before the Phantom incident, and yet you say the stated policy was "zero-problem". One cannot have a uniform foreign policy regarding all neighbors (regardless if it's called zero-problem or infinte-problems), and...

One cannot argue that the vision AKP had for Syria's future was not influential in its involvement or lack thereof, in the Syrian civil war. I have a very hard time understanding how you can hold the fiction that before the shooting down of our Phantom we were not intervening in Syria. FSA was...

I have never espoused or held that position. That's just a populist and easy to cling-on-to position that people use as an scapegoat to blame their economic woes on, and parties use that popular attitude to gain support (albeit I do strategically see benefit in amplifying that attitude instead...

Although I have my premonitions that long-term planning in international affairs is neither practical nor sustainable, hence not believing in the efficacy or, in any chance, the seriousness and unity of will with which the "Great middle-east project" is being pursued, still the current situation...

Obviously not his genuine thoughts, just pressure:

Only half? That'd be a utopia. :ROFLMAO:

BTW this reinforces my theses that Biden has abandoned the exclusivity of Obama's "pivot to asia" approach, because they anticipate more action in mid-east.

I hear 10X more ambitious speeches on Turkish T.V. channels by "experts" every day. Knowing your place is a result of correct analysis. When you know your place, that helps you go places. BTW I'm not saying the rhetoric is genuine, that's beside the point.