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Israel already carried out strikes into iraq territory long before any US invasion. Saddam was a loose cannon, already responsible for two wars and he pursued his own nuclear weapons programme. The US felt vulnerable after 9/11 and since they held the position as the worlds Nr.1 military power, they had to demonstrate their might after suffering an attack right on their own home turf .Saddams Iraq was the perfect scapegoat for that.Why are we repeating the same baseless arguments again and again
When Saddam threatened Israel and carried out missile strikes, did Israel stand up against Iraq directly? Hell no! Israel commanded their slaves, the US, to embark on a war against Iraq and pummel it into the ground. Till this day, after more than 10 years, Iraq is still a failed state
When Israel attacked Iran with missiles that lead to the death of Ismail Haniyeh, Iran promised severe retaliation; what do you think Israel did to protect itself? They moved 1/3 of the entire US navy within a week to protect Israeli lands
When the day come, and Israel set its sights on Turkey, it wont be the jews doing the fighting but rather a coalition of hundreds of thousands of US slaves, European slaves, and Arab slaves. At that time, no one will stand with Turkey. Not the cowardly turkic nations, not the Russians, or Chinese
That is why Turkey should do its best to prevent such scenario from happening and that is why Erdogan is trying to form some sort of an alliance so that such nations within Israel's radar can protect each other
As for the lieutenant issue, I believe that Erdo screwed up but again, I dont have as much info regarding the incident to even have a say in the matter. My sole point was that Erdo's foreign policy regarding Israel is spot on since these fanatics are a threat
Hell man, you dont even need to wait. The jews already stole historical artifacts from Hatay while Turkey was suffering from the aftermath of the earthquake (source isnt that trustworthy though so be aware)
Translation:
An investigation has been launched into the Zionist Chabat organization for stealing priceless historical artifacts from Hatay, where they came under the pretext of helping during the disaster of the century.
The idea that a coalition of the US and some European countries would attack another NATO country with a population of roughly 90 million people is completely delusional. Hell, I would even call that a hallucination.
Really not true. American Iraqi relations were never good and after the Iran invasion started, even then they armed them via 3rd parties like France, which at the time was not a good American ally at all.Saddam was Washington's best friend and Iraq was a moderm Western vassal in the 70's and 80's till the invasion of Kuwait changed everything.
Do you know what would be stupid? Giving Sultan Abdülhamid II absolute power and expecting the Ottoman Empire not to collapse.
Because Economy is too bad these year.The most serious problem of AKP is a slow one. Turkish voter base is changing especially the AKP voter base. Here is a recent poll about voter bases of political parties.
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The Turkish voter base is becoming less religious and less conservative.
Political leaning of youth. 2022 vs 2024. Big losses for Islamists and conservatives.
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A Constitutional monarchy would not have worked the empire was too divided on ethnic, religious, and tribal lines.Still Abdulhamid II should have switched back to a constitutional monarchy when the time was right. Thats all on him for failing in that regard.
The three pashas only took power after the parliament lost the most important parts of the empire, and it became clear that the country could not be run democratically.Despite Abdulhamid II being ousted his successors preferred the Empire to be ruled as a dictatorship run by 3 people with the Sultan being a mere figure head.
A Constitutional monarchy would not have worked the empire was too divided on ethnic, religious, and tribal lines.
The problem with trying to have a democratic state would be that every interest group would use the state institutions to weaken the state. It would be like if 60 percent of the legislature were HDP. The country would turn into a loss collection of vassal states that pay nothing but lip service to the sultan and parliament. The empire would have returned to what it was at the beginning of the 1800s, when the government only controlled Istanbul.
The three pashas only took power after the parliament lost the most important parts of the empire, and it became clear that the country could not be run democratically.
The fact that Turkey was a single-party state 20 years after the republic was established proved that overthrowing Abdulamid II was probably the greatest mistake in Turkish history.
Abdulhamid II only gained absolute power due to incompetence of the parliament.
Still Abdulhamid II should have switched back to a constitutional monarchy when the time was right. Thats all on him for failing in that regard.
Despite Abdulhamid II being ousted his successors preferred the Empire to be ruled as a dictatorship run by 3 people with the Sultan being a mere figure head.
Sultan Abdulhamid II and Tsar Nicolas II both have parallels to each other on how they ruled. They kept absolute power too long. In a way it made sense due to them ruling a vast empire when you rule far too long it creates even more problems.
1 man cant control everything especially in a world of rapid development.
Both were replaced with something even worse. I know people love jerking off to Abdulhamid II at the same time you have lots of people who jerk off over Enver Pasha, Talaat and Cemal. That even Ataturk critised them for their incompetence and ruining the Ottoman state.
Pre-1945 and post-1945, the rule of international relationship was a bit different.A Constitutional monarchy would not have worked the empire was too divided on ethnic, religious, and tribal lines.
The problem with trying to have a democratic state would be that every interest group would use the state institutions to weaken the state. It would be like if 60 percent of the legislature were HDP. The country would turn into a loss collection of vassal states that pay nothing but lip service to the sultan and parliament. The empire would have returned to what it was at the beginning of the 1800s, when the government only controlled Istanbul.
The three pashas only took power after the parliament lost the most important parts of the empire, and it became clear that the country could not be run democratically.
The fact that Turkey was a single-party state 20 years after the republic was established proved that overthrowing Abdulamid II was probably the greatest mistake in Turkish history.
How did it prove that,elaborate?The fact that Turkey was a single-party state 20 years after the republic was established proved that overthrowing Abdulamid II was probably the greatest mistake in Turkish history.
That post wasn't about Abdülhamid II.Abdulhamid II only gained absolute power due to incompetence of the parliament.
Still Abdulhamid II should have switched back to a constitutional monarchy when the time was right. Thats all on him for failing in that regard.
Despite Abdulhamid II being ousted his successors preferred the Empire to be ruled as a dictatorship run by 3 people with the Sultan being a mere figure head.
Sultan Abdulhamid II and Tsar Nicolas II both have parallels to each other on how they ruled. They kept absolute power too long. In a way it made sense due to them ruling a vast empire when you rule far too long it creates even more problems.
1 man cant control everything especially in a world of rapid development.
Both were replaced with something even worse. I know people love jerking off to Abdulhamid II at the same time you have lots of people who jerk off over Enver Pasha, Talaat and Cemal. That even Ataturk critised them for their incompetence and ruining the Ottoman state.
How did it prove that,elaborate?
The Ottoman Empire was lost long before Abdulhamid ll so,he was irrelevant.
He should be overthrowing much earlier or later,1908-12 was a very bad timing.He made the army weaker but he had a very good relationship with Germany so the balkan and ltalian didnt dare to invade ottoman during his time.After his downfall,the German Kaisar was angry and not to support ottomans,and the army weaked by Abdulhamid II and Young Turks had enough time to reform the army,so we lost.Abdulhamid II the loser that destroyed the Navy Abdulaziz build up because of fear of coup and who filled the Ottoman Army with tarikat members we saw the results in the 1st Balkan War (losing all Islands without firing one bullet), the loser who gave Cyprus to the British, the loser that bankrupted the state for the Crimean War, the loser who lost 1.5 million km² soil during his reign.
He is glorified as bright mind, good ruler and defender of islam etc. but in reality he was a rum drinking theater/opera enthusiast who rather worked in his workshop with wood than caring for an Empire. Itthiad ve Terakki put that loser down for a reason and a TRT1 show that glorfies that loser will not change historical facts.
@CAN_TR , Crimean war was in 1853 to 1856.My mistake meant the 93. Harbi