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There is one last card that can be played against Turkey in Syria, that would be for the Russians to allow the Americans to move into the YPG areas west of the river. This is the danger Turkey faces with all the barking from erdogan but the complete lack of action. If Russia generally believes...

What's fascinating about all of this is that before the Ukrainian war i didn't think there was anything Russia could do to Turkey should it turn into a conflict in Syria. I felt their resources and numbers in Syria is no match for Turkey and all out war would be so costly for Russia that it...

not this shit again. We justify the filth and failure that is ak party because the next best thing is worse. Here is an idea Turks, don't vote for any of these fools, raise new parties with new faces. Do it yourselves if you have to, stop outsourcing the security of the state to these thieves...

The problem with Syria is the rebels still to this day can't stop killing each other. My own perspective is that the job that needed to be done in syria wont be achieved with syrians, it had to be done with the Turkish military. I'm not conviced that you could ever organise the syrian rebels...

Our weak link is erdogan and his government.

yeah personally I don't pay any real attention to such discoveries. The oil and gas ones have been used throughout the decades by politicians as feel good stories to divert people from all the economic failure their governments have committed. The other problem is that Turkey is the kind of...

The more Russia fails in Ukraine, the easier it becomes for Turkey to do what needs to be done in Syria. Actually the Ukrainian war is more important to the entire picture of Turkish Russian relations then part of Northern Syria or Syria in general. Because in everyone region Turkey has some...

Its literally a numbers army. As long as they have overwhelmingly more men and more material to throw at the conflict, that's how they aim to win. They won't win on individual skill or capability.

Maybe some Azeri people could educate me, but wasn't the whole soviet pushing of Azeri identity a way to separate the Turks of Turkey from the Turks that they occupied?

I spoke to a Ukrainian the other day and he said the blood brothers thing was largely a russian created myth to occupy and control the Ukrainian people easier. The Russians played a similar trick on the Bulgarians, who are not even aware that it was Bulgar Turks who created the First Bulgur...

Was this before or after Russian goodwill?

Inshallah Putin has plenty more good will to hand out. Before snake island it was good will over Kiev. Maybe a day comes when he's overflowing with so much good will he decides to leave Ukraine completely. Has any other nation when starting a war and invading another nation ever shown this much...

Eastern europe goes to Russia too and the balkans will turn into another Syria. Not to mention that Russians will find it much easier to influence north africa since Turkey won't get in their way. Turkish politicians dont seem to understand the weight of their geography. Israel starts to panic...

they always withdraw their forces as "a gesture of goodwill", no your withdrawing because your getting your arses kicked. Russians dont know what goodwill is. I was hoping that snake island would continue for another 6 months, its was basically a kill zone for Russians. Whoever they sent onto...

Turkey downed a Russian jet when no one had the balls to even look Putin in the face. Our NATO allies removed their air defences from our border, their media demonised Turkey, and various political figures openly said "kick Turkey out of NATO". Despite this then Turkey escalates to conduct...

Assad at this point is just a russian slave.

another diplomatic disaster from erdogan. An exceptionally weak leader.

keep losing.

The most basic thing he could have done was had a 2 year good behaviour period. Say to sweden and finland you have supported terrorists for decades against me. I want you to do everything i want now and we watch you over the next two years and provided you stick to your side of the agreements we...