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I'm gonna defend our Nigerian friend a bit here and then draw different conclusions. The west is not happy with Erdogan, you can see this in the way they ordered their lackeys in the Gulen movement to attack them when Erdogan didn't back off from helping Iran circumvent sanctions (along with a...

All very true; and look at that all-powerful Shia clergy now; after the inevitable fall of the Islamic Republic in the coming decades, they will all go poof. They have already gone poof in the minds and hearts of people, but they will do so physically (probably on top of long rods of wood) when...

Yes, the nuances and differences are plenty so I didn't really have time or space to go into them; the comparisons and similarities are rough and superficial but they are there to a certain extent. Conservatism as a phenomena has so many variations specially in the context of Shia mujtahids and...

I agree mostly, but let me be a devil's advocate for a bit here. You know how when a state is accused of violating human rights, both western liberal people and their states start talking about boycotts, right? What this results in is isolation, and a public square dominated by domestic voices...

Hundreds of very experienced engineers work on these things. The probability of all of them missing the obvious problem in the flir placement is 0. I think there's sth fishy with this image.

Why does it have to be a bird of prey? Why not a predator? You can even call it Caracal (the word in English itself comes etymologically from Turkish Karakulak and you also have Tomcat as a precedent). But I will die on this hill: NO TF! The British, Germans and French don't call their...

Is it feasible to change the coating and paint for the roll-out ceremony in this short amount of time right now? Because if yes, they should absolutely do it; the coating and paint is half of the plane's style, and the current paint is rather dull. F-22's reflective shiny coating really adds to...

I just have to say this, if we achieve this before 2030, or even couple years later than that, it is literally going to be the greatest achievement of our republic. I think if you put the engine on one side, and the whole MMU with its subsystems on the other side, the engine is harder to...

https://www.defenceturkey.com/en/content/tusas-ve-tubitak-bilgem-mmu-icin-radar-kesit-alani-tesisi-kuracak-3795 "Radar Cross Section Test facility will be opened in 2021" - date: december 2019...

As I have mentioned elsewhere, anyone who looks into the history of development of engines like Saturn izdeliye 30, P&W F119, Xian WS-15, IHI XF9 or older and smaller engines like GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri, Snecma M88, Eurojet EJ200 (even with their impressive multi-billion dollar ASMET 14-strong...

True. Just to add to this I have to mention that he's an asset of U.S. state department. U.S. state department and C.I.A have a long history of fear-mongering, overblowing opposition to U.S. hegemonic standing (from Soviets in the cold war, and from China now), downplaying U.S. military power...

I don't agree with him probs on 70% of his analysis, but he definitely is a well-read, intelligent person. Intelligent well-read people can have horribly ignorant views when they get out of their comfort zones; one of my heroes and one of the most well-known public intellectuals in Turkey, Celal...

He says some stuff purely for effect, but anyone who has read his books "Accidental Superpower" and "A Crucible of Nations" can get a sense of his erudition on geopolitics, which is nothing to scoff at. Not liking someone's analysis doesn't make them an idiot.

Also not every generation transition is as clear-cut as the 4th to 5th gen transition (what with all the stealth characteristic geometry requirements). The transition from 5th to 6th will be much more murky akin to 2nd-3rd gen transition probably if the 6th gen doesn't come to be defined by...

But I have to add Islamists are so much bigger of a problem than PKK/HDP could ever dream of. PKK/HDP may try to partition Türkiye, but Islamism will make sure there's no Türkiye. People in Turkey have no conception of the threat that Islamism poses; they look at AKP, YRP, stuff like that which...

My personal experience from different countries has been that those collectivist/tribalistic attitudes are best broken with thorough assimilation into a broader national background, and the best tool of this assimilation is a "good life". One might argue against my reasoning by pointing out that...

Number one constitutes millions of people, the rest are less than 100k. As long as no.1 exists, it will feed the ladder. So The problem is doing the first thing, others are easy. How do you achieve the goal of "People in this category must be discouraged from hopping up the ladder to the second...