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Statecraft is not the arena of trial and error; we're humans and have big brains for a reason, we don't only learn from our own personal experience. Those who learn exclusively from their own personal experience are colloquially called "suckers".

I don't think anybody important really cares what people in this forum say, so one shouldn't be too invested in some fantasy of influence or deception in the matter of the perception for the need for F-35s among a couple of forum-goers. Another point is this talk of "impossibility" is a...

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His words are important not because he can be taken seriously but because he's a mouthpiece and if he's saying stuff opposite of what he and his ilk have been saying for 4 years, it's a sign he's been cajoled towards that statement. This is more a declaration of our intent than the Americans...

First half of the video is from 5 months ago from this incident: Second half from 9 months ago from this incident:

if chp just didn't say or do anything they would be in much better shape.

we don't seem to be taking this lesson that seriously.

Listen. Özcan Ertem, TUSAŞ Aircraft Group ex-President, explains the process behind the failed attempt at joint development of a fighter with S. Korea. He reiterates the fact that the problem was the different requirements of the respective air forces, not the industrial and technological...

We have much deeper geopolitical reasons for not wanting to share the Black Sea with Russia more than we already do; that's why we support Ukraine to a certain extent rather than listening to American alt-right twitter accounts in supporting their white Christian savior Putin.

I was looking forward to Trump losing again and causing massive discontent among the 30% of Americans loyal to him (and another 30% under the influence of their agenda) and resulting in a massive wave of radicalization, xenophobia leading to even more radical outlooks come 2028 which would take...

This was the worst year for F-35s in 2016: with this the year before: This mc from 2020, but no fmc rates: This is similar for a range of years 2014-2017: Similarly: This for other aircraft including F-22 for comparison: This from 2022: Here...

Consimiliter, I forgot to mention but a month ago my Instagram account was deleted because of a reply to an Israeli claiming they are always "victorious", to which I replied "is that you bar Kokhba?" I was reminded of it because I was trying to comment on a video of Israelis, who are blocking...

We MUST try to acquire F-35s; we must keep Kaan as a black box for everybody and hence Kaan should not join NATO exercises and missions. That should be done with the F-35s that we hopefully acquire; through acquiring F-35s we would be able to aid our air defense systems to detect and identify...

The Tik Tok ban (which effectively is a ban although not explicitly) is 100% because of the Israel lobby. There are a lot of shadowbanning and burying done on other platforms that didn't exist on Tik Tok. There was already appetite for the ban for sure, but the lobbying pressure is the reason it...

People who have worked with Korean firms do not share in this trust with you.

Mandatory Reading: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/08/where-the-chips-fell/ Where the Chips Fell By Julius Krein Before student loan forgiveness, the raid on...

Interesting; I'm reading his book at the moment. I'm not a fan of the book. It's apparent that he likes simple models and likes to repeat conventional wisdom. The Kennan view of containment until problems get too large for USSR, as Nilgiri pointed out, is far from the only possible narrative but...

Ooh isn't that the million dollar question; we don't know for sure. Economists spent about 40 years insisting that they do know until enough pressure mounted on the empirical side that they silently backed off. Many haven't gotten the hint yet and still parrot their old textbooks (esp. in our...

As someone who expected and predicted a massive devaluation past election, I predict no such devaluation will happen this time as reserves are better than last time (not good but still), monetary policy has changed for the better (although fdi hasn't improved) and monetary base expansion rate...