There is fighting back and there is being plain stupid. What short and long term effects did this attack have? A sense of terror and danger for the Israelis? Showing them that the Palestinians can fight back and inflict heavy damage? Israel still has a far more superior military might and will...
From a reputation standpoint this seems far more destructive. I still dont get how Israeli intelligence was unable to even catch the slightest hint for such an unprecedented attack. Even if Israeli strikes back and kills 10x more Palestinians, at the end of the day it still was Israel that was...
Except this time Armenia cant just easily send supplies and equipment into Karabakh to reinforce their separatist proxy forces there like they did in 2020. The only option for them would be to forcefully open the Lachin corridor, which would mean Armenia going out of their way to officially...
Does it really matter though? Even before any quran burnings I havent seen a single western media outlet outline how Turkeys opposition to Swedish NATO membership was due to PKK activities. Some articles didnt even mention that the PKK was a terror group.
Both European and Turkish lawmakers...
There was a tweet from 2021 from some Turkish Twitter account reporting the same news back then. I wouldn't expect anything positive regarding the F-35 acquisition out of this situation.
Soft Power is not to be underestimated. It lays the groundwork to legitimize illegal invasions, as seen with Libya. And The current Russian-Ukrainian war is also another perfect example. The West doesn't need to defeat Russia, they can simply damage Russia enough to an extent where Russia won't...
Look at what AlJazeera is reporting after Turkey summoned the French Ambassador:
"People carrying the flag of the PKK – outlawed in Turkey but not in the European Union – were seen during the demonstration. The PKK has waged a four-decade armed campaign against the Turkish state, seeking...
Does anyone have an idea why the MMU is presented with its armament? Could this be some kind of Presentation arranged for a possible partner some people here speculated about?
They instantly blamed Erdoğan and Turkey just a few minutes after the first reports emerged. After that, they claimed that the perpetrator, William M. was actually named William Mehmet. Now they claim these riots were "provoked" by Turks making "pro-turkish gestures" with french and western...
