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This is only if export numbers continue the same as the currency value rises and Turkish goods no longer become as cheap. And that's not guaranteed. Additionally, we've seen the effects of rising exports on the lira already and they are minuscule at best so it clearly isn't an ideal solution...

Lasers actually offer a better cost/efficiency trade-off than conventional AA when it comes to UAV threats, which is what I think TAF would be most concerned about nowadays.

I see the stuff my nephew watches and I pity kids today. They were born too late to witness some of the all-time greats.

Modi is really hands-on with strangers/casual acquaintances from what I've noticed. Any photo I see with him, he's got always hugging, shaking hands vigorously, placing hands on people's shoulders/back. And I'm from a country where people are pretty affectionate with others they barely know. Is...

The numbers seem off. We do have Su-25s but they are fairly old not recent acquisitions. Armenia claimed to have shot down 2 in last year's war when they were supposedly flying over Armenia itself but haven't provided any evidence of either. We're pretty much exclusively buying from Western...

1) Turkey can't ditch them, that's the point. The West knows perfectly well that Turkey really, really doesn't want to have to rely fully on Russia and Turkish attempts to play this "or else" game have failed because NATO or the US specifically, doesn't care and knows Turkey is bluffing. 2) The...

It appears to be a MAM-C warhead which packs a smaller punch and it landed on the other side of the artillery from the crew, so they were probably shielded from the main blast. They were probably still injured by flying shrapnel or the resulting shockwave but not enough to kill them. BTW...

Germany and France won't care since the point is that they already work with Russia. This is why I do not understand those who love to point out how the West is an unreliable ally and then say Turkey should align itself with the likes of Russia, who is an openly hostile entity.

TAF must be feeling pretty stupid about devoting so much effort to save the LNA only for the Turkish government to give away all the advantages it had. Oh yeah and of course Italians had to live up to their backstabbing stereotype once again.

If that were true, "Made in China" wouldn't still be something signifying low-quality goods that will break down within a year. And they've had around a 40 year head start on Turkey in that department. Just acquiring better technology for manufacturing won't fix anything, the most important...

The Azerbaijani community is getting more involved now, thank goodness. It started with the Karabakh war last year, when Armenians flooded the net crying about being persecuted and that the West should defend them as the "first Christian nation" (Ethiopia says hello), our diaspora seemed to have...

Long live the Turkish republic!

Uh...need I point out the thing with 10 ambassadors only a few days back?

It was always there but it wasn't as widespread. Nowhere near it. I've known more than a few generally liberal-minded people that actually supported Trump or became flat-out right-wing because the opposition has gone so utterly freaking insane. And it's only getting worse. It's one of many 1 +...

I don't think the proponents of this approach quite grasp that if the lira returns to normal again after getting higher export figures, it's very likely that any foreigners that Turkey conducts export trade with will immediately go for greener pastures and thus all this will be for nothing. As...

France now literally defending Russia against Ukraine. You know, ignoring that Ukraine bombed that Russian artillery position in response to separatists killing a Ukrainian soldier earlier. If Erdogan was actually a smart diplomat, he could use this to hammer France for being hypocrites and...

Neither Sartre nor Foucault held that there is no objective truths, Foucault was quite the opposite actually. Sartre's existentialism may sometimes be mistaken for saying that there is no objective truths but he also did not say that. He simply said that the only meaning human lives have is the...

Ah, so this is mainly HTS trying to take out their rivals. Well, can't expect much from an Al-Qaeda offshoot. I only hope that TAF has some kind of Order 66 planned to get rid of the HTS once their usefulness expires.

So your issue is with the social justice nonsense that plagues America today. I can agree with you there, it's gone too far.

Wait, so they are rushing them into production? That's not exactly good.