Search results

You probably saw this guy harass a vendor in New York, later to be identified as a high ranking official, working 22 years in the state department, and a deputy director during Obama years (working as he says on the Afghanistan-Pakistan region). Here's an interview he did before being ousted as...

The fact that July comes before August in my calendar is beside the point. Even if we agree that initially for like two months AKP didn't intervene (contrary to all the evidence, some of which you posted yourself, including the Erdoğan speech), this was all before U.S. active involvement. The...

I mean this is cognitive dissonance. You acknowledge the fact that ÖSO was formed before the Phantom incident, and yet you say the stated policy was "zero-problem". One cannot have a uniform foreign policy regarding all neighbors (regardless if it's called zero-problem or infinte-problems), and...

One cannot argue that the vision AKP had for Syria's future was not influential in its involvement or lack thereof, in the Syrian civil war. I have a very hard time understanding how you can hold the fiction that before the shooting down of our Phantom we were not intervening in Syria. FSA was...

I have never espoused or held that position. That's just a populist and easy to cling-on-to position that people use as an scapegoat to blame their economic woes on, and parties use that popular attitude to gain support (albeit I do strategically see benefit in amplifying that attitude instead...

Although I have my premonitions that long-term planning in international affairs is neither practical nor sustainable, hence not believing in the efficacy or, in any chance, the seriousness and unity of will with which the "Great middle-east project" is being pursued, still the current situation...

Obviously not his genuine thoughts, just pressure:

Only half? That'd be a utopia. :ROFLMAO:

BTW this reinforces my theses that Biden has abandoned the exclusivity of Obama's "pivot to asia" approach, because they anticipate more action in mid-east.

I hear 10X more ambitious speeches on Turkish T.V. channels by "experts" every day. Knowing your place is a result of correct analysis. When you know your place, that helps you go places. BTW I'm not saying the rhetoric is genuine, that's beside the point.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-axis-resistance-against-israel-faces-trial-by-fire-2023-11-15/ Iran's supreme leader delivered a clear message to the head of Hamas when they met in Tehran in early November, according to three senior officials: You gave us no warning of your Oct...

this community note is a gift that keeps on giving. before it was about her accent and broken Arabic, but now the note has changed since she's been identified.

What the decline of institutions does to a country: hashtag is hilarious as well, trying to appeal to liberal women in the west hearkening back to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_women

They're shamelessly playing to their Western audience, and couldn't care less if the rest of the world sees right through the bullshit. Same thing happened with their "Hitler" book, intercepted calls, cgi tunnel system. They plainly don't care that Arabs and Muslims get to see them for what they...

lmao the community note.

I have been working on the question of, what I call, "the wealth of western nations" for the past ten years. There are literally hundreds of answers in the form of books and papers. Some more serious than others. As a question it kind of, unhelpfully, boils down to the impossible question of...

Close enough: