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The Greek genocide claims are particularly baffling because it seems like most of the time they are referring to either the population exchange or civilian casualties during the Turkish War of Liberation. Which is massively dishonest because the 1st one isn't a genocide by any stretch of the...

I don't think Indian weapon systems suck. And should be taken as seriously as anything else, should we have to face them. But I'm also confused by the claim that they are used in Ukraine. Closest I've heard is that some foreign weapons systems intended for India were diverted for use in the...

The moment Russia uses nuclear weapons, it gets royally raped with 3 times as many nuclear weapons in return. And NATO has systems in place to intercept nuclear missiles with some degree of reliability. Russia has absolutely no way to stop any US or allied nukes from hitting any target in Russia...

I know it's not realistic but I hoped we'd go back to using the old Turkic script with the fancy inscriptions rather than Latin or Cyrillic.

Congratulations, you just demolished the entire Turkish tourism industry.

Not being stupid enough to throw away decent relations over a bunch of Arabs in Palestine who actively hate you and supported your enemies isn't the same as being used.

A good brother does not follow his sibling in his mistakes but smacks him in the face and reminds said sibling not to be an idiot. If Turks want to tolerate Erdogan's Islamist lunacy that ended up screwing over Turkey's foreign policy for years to come then I can't stop you. I can tell you what...

Should act now while Russia is still distracted.

Good, maybe Turkey's government can get their head out of their ass seeing that other Turkic nations aren't keen to commit the same diplomatic suicide that Erdogan is.

I made another comment after that one pointing out that Ukraine DOES seem to have found Russia's weak point. It has nothing to do with Western arms deliveries and restrictions (or lack thereof), relying on those to change the course of conflict is as dumb as the Germans waxing lyrical about...

I would like to revise my previous analysis to say that one of the strategies I mentioned previously (Ukraine doing hit-and-run strikes to force Russia to commit forces to defend gaps in their line) actually seems to be working. Russia has no effective counter to such guerilla tactics unlike...

I have to admit, I'm also not particularly confident about a Ukrainian victory. You can talk about Kursk all you like but it doesn't change the fact that Russia started making pretty major gains in Ukraine once this operation got underway which leads me to suspect that Ukraine diverted a...

It's not just Muslim countries, across most nations the age of consent is between 14-18. Forget countries, you can have age of consent varying by state. Germany, Italy, Austria and Portugal for example all have it at 14. There are even exceptions going as low as 12 if both the boy and the girl...

@Spitfire9 was merely pointing out that Erdogan conducted himself tactlessly. It is possible to criticize/insult someone if you wish without being so...inelegant about it. Erdogan has been leader of Turkey for 20+ years now and he still behaves like somebody that walked out of Nardaran yesterday.

I am fairly confident on blaming the lacking of Turkish citizens mentally on the education system. From what I can see, it's certainly not the lack of human potential and 100+ years is certainly enough to reverse the damage of the previous centuries. Azerbaijan has a similar problem where we...

PKK wasn't created by the US. Why do you keep harping on about this line?

The Democrats are correct about J.D. Vance being a moron. He's Trump's weak point and might possibly end up being even more of an Achilles' heel for the guy than Sarah Palin ended up being for John McCain. I've heard rumors that Doug Burgum, governor of North Dakota, was Trump's first choice and...

I think what Iskander meant is that during the Afghanistan withdrawal, Turkish/Azerbaijani forces were the last of the participating nations to leave IIRC. Part of that is because the Taliban generally refrained from attacking our soldiers and vehicles so other NATO troops would sometimes hitch...

Surprised at South Korea being so high.

I'm going to be nice but this is optimistic at best. Aside from the fact that Kamala Harris couldn't debate a preschooler and come out looking good, very few people in the US actually give a crap about abortion any more. The mid-terms were when the issue was still fresh on the agenda and even...