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Kinda looks like US politics circa 2016 from here, TBH. Although you seem to have less insane lefties than we do (not that the right-wing is incapable of being any less insane). I sorta understand the pressure but there's gonna be a lot of fake news coming out in the next few years so be...

Look, unless your walls are old-school medieval monstrosities that require a siege tower to get over, they will at best slow down border-hoppers for like 10 seconds. What you need are border guards and watchtowers along as many points as possible. Trump's border wall, for example, was a useless...

UAE is a regional rival but I think Greece seriously underestimates how much India would prefer to have Turkey as a solid ally rather than them.

Man, the Rwandan military is hardcore. I remember reading memoirs about some of their paratrooper operations in the 90s, the stuff they pulled off against overwhelming opposition was absolutely insane.

Nationalism is actually growing. It arrived as a replacement for religion as the key human tribal identifier in the 19th century, replacing religion (thanks, French Revolution) and since then it's been slowly replacing religion in that regard. Globalism is never gonna take off unless human...

You know, I'm not the biggest fan of state-driven education but I think it's probably one of the best solutions to fixing corruption and the overall mentality of the people to prevent future Abdulhamids, Mendereses and Erdogans. Children are malleable and one of the reasons why, for example...

Bit harsher than I would've said but yeah. Posting fake news does no favors to anyone. At least have the decency to own up when you screwed up.

OK, I'm genuinely curious, WHY are they all 20-something males? This isn't even a dig at illegal immigration, I'm genuinely curious why there are no women escaping the Taliban. Unless...hey, you guys don't think that Iran might be deliberately holding the women and children and the elderly and...

Ironically enough, going into mass debt while not using that money for anything benefiting the nation was a major problem for the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century. There's a reason it's a favorite tactic of China for pulling other countries' into their orbit and it was a favorite tactic...

How the hell is Siberia on fire, that place is cold enough that you'll get frostbite 3 seconds after going outside. And what is even happening in Africa? You and your family doing OK, Vag? I notice that both your homes are on fire.

Based on what I heard from American troops stationed in Afghanistan, regime-supporting Afghanis were often no better than the Taliban. One dude who trained Afghani government soldiers straight-up said that they were even bigger trash than Islamic fundamentalists calling for people to be...

Kind of fitting that Erdogan is such a fan of Abdulhamid II and commissioned a show whitewashing the guy. They are much alike in many ways, authoritarian, paranoid and crippling the country for their own personal profit.

You completely misunderstood what I said. TURKEY will be benefiting from the money and influence it can get out of Orthodox Christians by leveraging Hagia Sophia as a church again and boosting Turkey's own forms of Orthodoxy. Not Greece or Russia or whatever. Just like the Ottomans did with...

LMAO. Biden and the Democrats basically screeched all through the electoral year about what a horrible racist Trump was, now we have Kamala Harris and Marco Rubio actively telling migrants to GTFO and Biden essentially bribing corrupt autocrats from other countries to take refugees...

On the topic of Orthodoxy in Istanbul, I unironically think that letting the Hagia Sophia get turned back into a church would actually be useful in giving Turkish Orthodoxy a good boost and strengthening Turkey's soft power worldwide among Christians. Turkey wins literally nothing from making it...

Even the most refugee-supporting leftists and fundamentalists have to be wondering where the hell all the children, women and elderly people are. I repeat - if you are a young man fleeing a bad country, your first responsibility is to make sure the young ones, the infirm and old and the women...

Controlled burning isn't really an option in densely-forested, mountainous areas, especially in extreme heat where any small fires can quickly spin out of control. In addition to usually being done in winter or autumn during colder weather, it also depends on the type of flora growing in the...

I don't even get the logic of it this time because Turkey has already accepted Greece's help in the past with natural catastrophes and vice versa. What's the issue with doing it this time, it's not like people are gonna point and laugh "ha, ha, big Turkey needs little Greece's help" or some...

Ah, the whole world's gone mad. I'm just here, drinking cay and waiting for the World War 3 warm-up to finish and the shooting to start. Hope you guys have been getting some practice in.

I voted for Barack Obama back in the day. Not that the Republicans would've been much better but every day I wish I could go back in time and punch myself in the face for being so stupid. May they all die of the worst form of cancer imaginable and suffer every second for a year until they expire.