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Couple of months. Only thing that can stop it is a change in expectations on fiscal policy and inflation, i.e. change of administration. But whoever comes along will have a very hard time. All the over-promising KK is doing right now will come back to bite him badly.

Another nice graphic to show how a decrease in Central Bank lending interest rates not only doesn't necessarily lead to lower interest rates on deposits and borrowings from commercial banks, when your economy is diseased it can actually have the averse effect of increasing it temporarily...

For our Nigerian friend's consumption: this graphic shows the correlation between Erdoğan's decision to lower interest rates for Central Bank's lending to banks and USD/TL exchange rate, increase of the latter is the main culprit for inflation. Inflation in turn in itself should lead to more...

America as I said (and you should learn from their latest coup attempts in Venezuela) is not an omnipotent god. Even if you give them that kind of power, then that omnipotence should help them destroy economies of countries they actually try to destroy with severe sanctions, like Russia and...

This is not the 50s and 60s; nobody can discontinue shit, there's too much institutional backing and infrastructure behind it. Also, what are we good for if we just sit around and allow that shit? It's the era of speedy information my brother.

Haftar forces literally left mass graves of women and children in their wake, and Macron turns around and talks about democracy and human rights and not even one "independent" western media reminds them of who they support. Stupid Turkish liberals as always fall for the aesthetics of...

I understand that. The election will go to the second round and neither İnce nor Oğan can win. When in politics someone cannot win, their participation has other motives, no matter what they claim. Oğan's motives are crystal clear, he wants to take the helm from Bahçeli and a good percentage of...

Personally in an ideal situation, I'd say that I'd question the sanity of whoever votes for anyone but Oğan in this election, but seems like I'd have to question sanity of 95% of people. I don't fault them: when people look for alternatives in desperate times, they look to electability and now...

inconsequential noise.

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...