Research reactors produce very little fissile material. They essentially are used to establish the fundamental physics and engineering to be scaled up to a weapon/commercial reactor (a much larger reactor that is capable to produce the material needed in relevant timeframes).
You need these...
You got to get capital account (investment + long term related) squared away and solid before you go flexing on current account strategy/tactics.
Its economics 101. You have to do things from the inside out (than outside in).
It is the equivalent of putting gas in the tank and bringing jerry...
How can you hate your people collectively like this?
Just to justify what AKP is inflicting on them?
Every single bad habit you mention can be reformed by a govt with correct policy BTW.
Maybe you can ask why AKP has indulged these bad habits instead (and now doing lunacy on top)...and done...
I agree it is not easy at all.
It makes the rare instances through history all the more noteworthy.....their ultimate significance of being able to rise above the fray given the inertial force of inherited context.
Take a particular Virginian for example. The British refused to give him...
Please start a protest movement against TCB (a totally Erdogan/AKP controlled institution now).
Ask them why they are getting in the way of depreciation to 15, 20, 25 (whatever number you want to achieve X% demand compression and what that will inflict on Turkey for 10 - 20 years) and selling...
It's been talked about a number of times....search "debt" in this thread....I commented few times ~ 200 billion matures in FY 2022.
24 billion or so matured in late November (just completed)....that was the single largest monthly maturity Turkey had to pay (i.e avoid default) till then and I...
To those saying "exports exports exports", "trade deficit will be erased" in some "reach for a plan"....or "things have to get so bad/extreme so that they can curl up and meet good"...."omelette needs eggs to be broken etc"....
or whatever variant of <insert export miracle model by F=ma its so...
The critical (capex infra) elements of turkish WMD program should have been started in ~ 1980s if you ask me.
i.e Get a couple reactors, and get plutonium (239) production started (using the neutron flux of reactor and create a "bed" design around it)....start stockpiling that plutonium till...
It is just better if some countries (or their patrician/politician class) learn the lessons the hard way.
For example, Sri Lanka finance minister will be visiting India soon:
https://defencehub.live/threads/india-sri-lanka-archive-india.10282/#post-143931
Their direct predicament from their...
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/turkey-spends-money-it-doesnt-have-2021-12-01/
Turkish central bank said it was selling dollars to support the lira. The bank has $25 billion of net reserves as of November, down from $28 billion the month before. But that includes another $48 billion of...