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We really are saints to be putting up with these psychopaths for this long. Any other country in our place would've wiped them off the map years ago. Armenians should really be thankful that they don't border China.

Scandinavians are actually fairly nice and I don't wish them harm. Ideally, they should be sent back to Afghanistan and Syria or tossed back to Iran but if you want to screw over Europe, I'd recommend France.

It depends. The ones are mostly like this are the ones who really cling to the Crusader "Europe under attack!" mentality, who think that the world is like Lord of the Rings and their dopey selves are the last line of defense against the savage orc brown hordes. Then there are others, who think...

LMAO, this is quite literally the EU trying to bribe Turkey not to say "screw it" and stop holding the refugees back. It's not even because the EU is incapable of policing its own borders. They just know that their border security doesn't have even the restraint of Turkish border security, so...

What do you mean "return"? Mercenaries never went anywhere, we had mercenaries in World War One for heaven's sake.

Uh...is it normal for fathers to kiss their sons in public there? Or you mean like on the cheek? Still...ugh? Got a news link?

If this is what some flooding can do, I don't even wanna think about what Istanbul is gonna look like after the Big One hits. Assuming that no proper work has been done to minimize earthquake damage in the city, it's probably gonna look like Stalingrad times 100.

Huh, really? I thought Sikhs didn't have that veneration for cows that Hindus do.

Weight, size, etc. Where you might be able to fit 1 or 2 30 round mags, a 60 round one might not fit. Not to mention the weight, there's a reason militaries stopped using drum magazines, they made the guns too heavy to handle.

I find that Sikhs are usually the least prone to extremism among the three major religions of that region but maybe I'm just not educated well-enough about their history. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Hindutva or Islamist moron somewhere but Sikhs seem generally cool.

Curious how they handled the issue of weight. It's one of the things that led to world militaries ditching drum magazines.

Turkey should have more relaxed gun laws regardless. One of the greatest things about America that I will defend to the end is the right for all citizens to bear arms. Second Amendment is my jam.

I've only briefly skimmed it but I noticed something odd in that the author only considers refugee data from 2009-2017. For a paper published in 2021, this is a fairly curious oversight. I'll read the rest of it later but it doesn't give me much hope that he doesn't try to pull some statistical...

I don't think there needs to be any overly academic analysis of refugee statistics to see what the problem is here. Let's look at the facts. The migrants are not being checked. At all. We don't know who they are, where they came from, what they did, anything at all. This emboldens criminal...

The first Turks came to the region as explorers looking for new pastures. Later, the Byzantines invited them in as mercenaries to hold the line against Arabs and Persians. Later waves came as Turks fleeing from the Mongols, which ironically enough included other Turks among their ranks, so it...

I don't think there's anything wrong with hoisting a, for example, Circassian flag if you're doing it on your own property (especially since for Circassians it's more of a cultural throwback to their old heritage as many of them are well-integrated Turkish citizens). Like, for example, a Greek...

You are actually underselling just how completely f***ed the UAE and the Gulf countries in general are when it comes to oil in the next decade. Electric cars are being fast-tracked as a replacement for regular cars all over the world, Europe and the US are already preparing to bring in...

If AKP had any balls or diplomatic sense, they'd be protesting and lobbying against this at every turn.

Just kill this asshole already.

To paraphrase X-Men: First Class, a civil war implies that both sides have an equal chance of winning. I have no love for any of the factions in this fight but Ghani's days are numbered.