Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "TLDR News Global" channel.

  1. I love how TLDR dumbs down complex issues into ridiculously simple narratives. Russia and Turkey are strategic rivals. They've been fighting proxy wars on each other in Azerbaijan, Libya and Syria. Russia has had the upper hand in Syria and Turkey has been using the Ukraine war to take concessions from Russia in Syria. When Russia does something in Syria Turkey doesn't like, they strike back with a move on Ukraine. It's essentially a dance these two nations play to extract as much as possible out of each other in these arenas.
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  2. I guess the difference is the Turks actually like you guys and don't look down upon you like the Europeans do. They're looking for partners in that region, not slaves. What ever works, the Somali people have been through a lot and deserve a better future.
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  3. The level of rage on issues like this is very telling. Dealing with Africans on equal footing, imagine that causing people to meltdown. It is very interesting if you think about it.
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  4.  @freejay3  a consulate is a branch of an embassy. Do you even know what a consulate is?
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  5.  @scratthesquirrel5242  So that makes what France is doing in Africa okay?
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  6. His approval rating is actually around 39%. If reality and facts mattered to you that is lol
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  7.  @NenenRan  Embassies constantly host military leaders. How do you think embassies work?
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  8.  @alrxandersmiths242  The EU has no say in what Nato really does. You know why? No EU nation has a functioning military. So with that said, how exactly in the EU is going to invade them? They could probably fight off the entire EU invading them with half their army lol
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  9. 101phase, They no longer have a parliamentarian system like most of Europe. They're on the presidential system like France and America. So no coalitions in the executive branch. The president is the president until his term is up. What happened in Israel isn't really comparable to what is happening in Turkey. For starters Turkey isn't trying to institute a security state like Bibi is.
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  10. @Mahadaalvi, I highly doubt Russia would openly attack a Turkish naval vessel in the Black Sea. If that escalated Russia's navy in the black sea would get wiped out. Russia's naval presence in the black sea is small and Turkey's navy would make quick work of them. Not to mention Russia wouldn't be able to reinforced it's Navy in the black sea because Turkey controls the straits into the Black Sea. I'm not sure if this would trigger WW3 though.
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  11. @Michael Stergides, Bro I'm an American who has lived part time in Turkey since the late 1990s and I still can't pronounce this dude's name. So yea, I'll give TLDR a pass on this one 🤣🤣 It's a tough one.
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  12.  @theotheagendashill818  The issue isn't about who colonized who 200 years ago. The issue is about France colonizing Africa NOW. Also these Africans have nothing to do with places like Serbia being colonized. Get a grip.
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  13. @Solomon525. You guys seem pretty safe right now. Russia is too busy with Ukraine to bother you guys. And Azerbaijan's military superiority over Armenia will pretty much ensure this conflict won't spill over, even if it were to I'm not sure Turkey would allow either of those two nations to spread their insanity into Georgia. Georgia seems pretty golden right now with all their rivals "busy" lol
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  14.  @batu2345  They didn't really cover it up, everyone knows about it. You can't ethnically cleanse 800,000 civilians and have no one notice.
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  15. @MattyBRaps400 It would be fun to watch this guy in charge of foreign policy no? Trying to send his non functioning army to get something done
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  16. ​ @hatty101  I'm not underestimating the Russian navy, the Russian navy is quite good. You're over estimating the naval assets they actually have in the Black Sea. How exactly would they get those assets into the Black Sea if they were in a naval conflict with Turkey. Explain that to me please. Not to mention how much you're actually under estimating the assets of the Turkish navy, who can bring their entire navy into the Black Sea where as Russia can't. Be a little objective and realistic here, it's not like these are sports teams you're rooting for
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  17.  @mihangelap-williams9871  Few nations on this planet could be as brutal as France has been in Africa these past 200 years. Few would even come close to the level of brutality.
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  18.  @sonaazatyan3144  Actually during that conflict Armenia was flooded with weapons up to the gills from the Russians, what in the world are you talking about? It was basically a well armed military with modern weapons fighting civilians with rifles. I guess years later when you had to fight a real army, you realized it was much harder than slaughtering unarmed civilians?
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  19.  @pixelartenjoyer  A win win situation is a lot better than dealing with colonizers where you always lose. Also Turkey wasn't in a position to push their geostrategic interests that far in 2012 yet still stepped up to the plate to help Somalia when it barely had a functioning government and was dealing with mass starvation. I'm not Turkish but I spend a lot of time in that country. Even though they were having serious financial problems no one seemed to complain about sending money and aid to Somalia back then. Unlike the Europeans they don't look at Somali people as "others" who can be exploited. They seem to genuinely care.
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  20. @Meh23p. They'll do anything? Hmmm When Armenia invaded that territory in the 1990s they brutally ethnically cleansed 800,000 civilians. When Azerbaijan re-invaded the territory in 2020 a few dozen civilians died. I'd hardly call that "them willing to do anything." Hell imagine the level of restraint they showed consider what was done to their people when the shoe was on the other foot. Also Nakichevan doesn't cut Armenia off from Iran. Zengezur would do that and Armenia is in full control of it. What in the world are you talking about?
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  21. @a This comment legit made me laugh 🤣 There is one thing I've noticed though which is quite literally crazy. Why do Pakistani and Indian trolls descend on any video pertaining to Turkey like flies to shit? lol Every comments section on literally every video about Turkey is riddled with a Pakistani/Indian flame war. It's surreal.
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  22. Why because they are brown?
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  23. @ AwedJR, to be fair when you make such geopolitical moves it makes sense to have the blessing of regional powers. Doing it without telling anyone might send the wrong message. Egypt might be run by a brutal dictator the people hate right now but it still doesn't change the fact Egypt isn't some mickey mouse state. Geo political moves in their backyard have a higher chance at success if the Egyptians are on board with it. I'd imagine the Turks understand this. Hopefully this move brings stability to the region and hopefully it works out for the interests of both Somalia and Ethiopia. It would be a tragedy if these two nations had an armed conflict. Both nations are slowly modernizing and trying to grow the living standards of their nations, an armed conflict would throw progress back 20 years. Both nations if run properly have the potential to be well functioning states with a high degree of living standards compared to the rest of the region. Considering both of their histories, god knows they both deserve a better future.
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  24.  @gauthierdavid5555  Last I checked Armenians actually speak Armenian. I'd imagine you know this right?
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  25.  @calebbearup4282  I'm an American who has been living in Turkey part time since the late 1990s. I honestly fail to see how what you're saying is true. I'm no fan of the guy, if I could vote there (which I can't) I wouldn't vote for him. With that said a lot of what you said is completely and utterly detached from reality. Hurting "Scandinavian countrieS" What Scandinavian country aside from Sweden has he been hurting? As far as Sweden, he has absolutely no choice but to extract a pound of flesh from them, he is under far too much pressure from teh public to do so. That is how representative democracies work, leaders doing what the people pressure them into. I know as a European it's a mind blowing concept for you considering your government rarely does what the people want in terms of foreign policy. Sweden has been financing armed groups which have been blowing up schools and hospitals for decades now. You're going to blame the victims in this situation? That would be like me hiring guys to kill your children and then getting angry at you when you refuse to let me join your organization. How insane are you?
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  26. Yes him failing to mention that 800lbs elephant in the room made this video cringy. It was well put together but glossing over that killed the credibility of the video.
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  27.  @Superfoodcookie  America and China are massive trade partners. Does change the fact they're strategic rivals does it? So according to your logic America and China are now allies? Please come with something that makes sense. As far as the S-400. Russia needed money, Turkey needed an air defense system. You make it seem like it's the first time in history rivals do business. It's a common theme the world over. Do you actually have any points which counter anything I've said so far? Aside from pointing out things which are quite normal for rivals to do?
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  28. @Razargsyan5860 Genocide policy? hmmm Armenia invades Nagorno Karabakh in the 1990s and they ethnically cleanse 800,000 civilians. Azerbaijan re-invades the region in 2020 and a tad bit over a dozen civilians die. Essentially less than die in car accidents every year. You're calling them genocidal? Seriously?
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  29.  @sharkronical  So you're literally trying to make excuses that Africa shouldn't be for Africans but be for exploitation by French companies? All because of some random statement Japan made over 80 years ago half way across the world? This isn't the first insane statement like that I've seen on this thread.
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  30. @Liam O'connell, Georgia supported Azerbaijan for obvious reasons. They have nothing to gain from supporting Armenia, not to mention they're sensitive to illegal occupations considering what Russia did to them in 2008. So they're pretty firmly in the Azeri camp. Iran supported Armenia because they're worried a confident Azerbaijan might be trouble for Iran considering Iran is occupying a population of 20 million Azeris in northern Iran.
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  31.  @Erwin1293-  This is simply not true if you look at the evidence at hand. France (By their own top retired general's admissions) only has munitions to fight a large scale war for three days. This is also believable if you look at what happened during the Libyan intervention. When Obama said he'd "lead from the back" and let France take the lead in the strikers. After 4 days the French military was exhausted and couldn't get the job done. The Americans had to "lead from the front" again. And this was basically just some micky mouse no fly zone and aerial bombings of a third world nation. 4 and they were done. France's military is a paper tiger and everyone knows it, including French military brass who all complain about it after retiring. Forget Turkey, Poland could probably shred through France's conventional forces without much of an issue. All France really has that scares people are Nukes. They remind me a lot of North Korea on this front. Not a military power. For all intents and purposes Poland is really the only EU nation which has any teeth. And those teeth aren't very big. But at least they have teeth.
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  32. More false narratives by TLDR. Well done.
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  33.  @ChinnuWoW  Yes it does, except no one has violated Armenian territory. If memory serves me correct weren't they the ones illegally occupying another nation's internationally recognized territory until recently?
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  34.  @_hunter_hunter1048  You do realize that before Turkey did the Greeks actually invaded Anatolia and took it from indigenous groups like the Hittites right?
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  35.  @bullmoosevelt4495  Most of those neighbors including Orthodox Christian Georgia get along really well. Armenia has territorial claims on every single one of it's neighbors except Iran. Armenia has border disputes with every neighbor except Iran. Armenia is the only nation in that region which has recently invaded it's neighbor's internationally recognized territory and ethnically cleansed 800,000 civiilans. If everyone in the region gets along and there is one aggressive country we can't get along with nearly all of them. Who do you think the problem is?
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  36.  @railwayhistorian2778  If he had the ability to rig elections, he wouldn't have lost the midterm elections not too long ago and lost control of all the largest municipalities. It seems your relationship with facts and reality isn't a very strong relationship lol The election looks like it could tip either way according to polls. Unlike here in America I don't think their election system is rigged.
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  37.  @calebbearup4282  So Kurds are about 20 percent of their population today if not more and nearly 40% of their government is Kurdish. Yet somehow some guy named Caleb on youtube is supposed to have us believe this is some sort of genocide going on? Interesting. Do you have anything else you'd like to add which won't get completely and utterly destroyed by simple facts? Anything bro? Perhaps you'll try to convince me the earth is flat next? Sometimes I wonder how it's possible for a human being to become this irrational and detached from reality.
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  38.  @whydoiexistrnwhy  Yes a long time ago and they've stopped the behavior. Unlike France who is still at it.
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  39.  @lavendelkaiserin  Well you really can't blame Egypt for their government as it is a government the people simply didn't want. The government they elected was violently overthrown by the current one. As far as the government in Turkey, it is the government the people want. If we think it's great or we think it's sh!t is irrelevant.
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  40.  @markdowding5737  Sweden has been funding groups in that area for well over 15 years, well before ISIS even existed. So claiming that it was a one time thing to defeat ISIS is an outlandish claim to make. As far as evidence, the Swedish government isn't sky about it. It's literally in their budget with the exact amounts they send. If you weren't suffering from cognitive dissonance you'd actually look it up yourself. Don't ask me to come up with something you're too lazy to look for. They're doing it, they're open about the fact they're doing it. That would be like me asking you to go dig up evidence that Russia actually attacked Ukraine. It's insanity and an extremely lazy talking point. Fact of the matter is Sweden delved into insanity and is now paying the price. Trying to shift blame to others wont' change the situation.
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  41.  @adammonem5856  Muhammed Ali Pasha was an Otttoman. Dude was an Ottoman Albanian, trained in the Ottoman military. He set up his own power base in Egypt and wanted to seize power in the Ottoman empire. He was a rival of the Sultan, not the empire.
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  42.  @Superfoodcookie  How long the Syrian conflict has been going on is irrelevant to my point. Turkey years now Turkey/their proxies have been at war with Russia/their proxies in Nagorno Karabakh, Syria and Libya. It would only stand the reason they'd use the Ukraine war to gain leverage on Russia in the most important one to them being Syria. If your definition of closer is having proxy wars with a nation over and over again. I have some Atlantic Ocean front property in Ohio I'd love to sell you at a really really cheap price.
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  43.  @mesutozen1492  You're being generous to France. Look at most of their deals in Africa, it isn't 90/10 for France. It's more like 99/1.
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  44.  @jackholler3572  To be fair it doesn't take much to better than India. Hell some African nations have higher living standards than India does.
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  45.  @monchochp  It's pretty ridiculous to say things like that when you simply don't have the means to actually make it happen. When France makes claims like that, people just roll their eyes and chuckle. There is literally nothing France can actually do. It doesn't realize it's a third rate power and everyone has figured it out. Soon to be a 4th rate power in the next 20 years.
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  46.  @dorianodet8064  They're not worried about sanctions. They're worried about Russia's reaction. What they're asking of Armenia isn't really crazy either. They simply want Armenia to adhere to the tenants of the ceasefire they signed.
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  47. It isn't really important enough on a global stage for there to be much news about it here. It is super interesting but not exactly big news.
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  48. How does France have this amazing ability to make the lives of people it has colonized so terrible that no other colonizing nation has a track record this bad? They fouled these nations up so bad it will take them 100s of years to recover.
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  49. Pretty good video but it completely skipped the 800lbs elephant in the room which is the driver of this entire conflict. Armenia ethnically cleansing 800,000 thousand Azeri civilians from the 7 regions around Karabakh in the 1990s. It's almost like trying to understand German, Jewish relations in Europe during the 1940s and glossing over the holocaust like it was no big deal. Also please ignore all the Karen's in the comments sections complaining about how you pronounced the names of these places. I can't pronounce them myself and I doubt anyone else who isn't from the region can either.
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  50.  @adamesd3699  Yup, it was basically an internal struggle. Dude himself was an Ottoman.
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  51.  @topraktansak8385  Being in Nato, prevents you from being attacked by Nato. It's quite simple really. And it's something the Serbians figured out far too late.
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  52.  Deadpoppin  The people who lived there then are mostly the same people who live there now. They're mostly indigenous Anatolians who were first invaded by the Greeks and Helenized. Then invaded by the Persians and Persianized, then invaded by central asian horsemen and turkified. Modern DNA mapping is pretty clear about this. The Turks themselves would have you believe that the vast majority of their 80 million are descendants of the 1200 or so horsemen who conquered this area which had millions at the time. How likely is that?
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  53. Odd title. Because Erdogan didn't end the feud. Sisi (president of Egypt) did. Egypt were the ones who approached the Turks to reconcile and invited them to visit Egypt and rolled out the red carpet. God knows what concessions they had to make in the process.
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  54. @RS Casual, Elections will probably change a lot of things in that country but one thing that won't change is their policy on Sweden. It isn't a party issue, everyone is on board with the policy. In fact the opposition has been slamming Erdogan for being too soft on Sweden. So this "oh lets wait for elections to fix this Sweden problem" is a pipe dream. People don't understand how much bad blood there is between the two states. If you look into the issues between them it's also very understandable why the Turks are so hot skipping mad.
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  55.  @Doge811  Signing mutually beneficial mining contracts with a nation is a lot different than colonizing a nation and taking those mines for pennies on the dollar. Think about what you said for a second. Are you actually saying the Africans shouldn't have the right to hand out mineral contracts at a price which is beneficial to their nation? It is better to have France colonize the nation and take it for 99% off? Is that your argument?
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  56.  @ChinnuWoW  No I didn't, unlike you I'm not doing backflips in denying one genocide and pushing another. You know what the word hypocrite means right?
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  57.  @ChinnuWoW  When the topic is on the current actions of one state. Trying to somehow rationalize that by making a statement making it seem like no group of people who have done anything in the past can comment on the current state of affairs is insanity. The Armenian genocide comment is your strawman in defending French actions in Africa. I simply countered your strawman with another strawman and watched your strawman crumble.
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  58.  @trotgun1563  You think people there "manipulation" to hate the people who occupy, murder and exploit them? Seriously?
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  59. @Caleb Bearup, I don't think It's for you to decide who the leader of another country might be.
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  60.  @larsnielsen1852  No one claimed people can't have opinions. Just like other people are free to question the validity of said opinions. It's called the open market place of ideas, generally bad ideas get destroyed.
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  61. Well Israel is doing everything in it's power to spark a regional war. Iran hasn't taken the bait so far, I doubt it will now.
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  62. @Gardstyle35, Armenians genocided in that area? What are you smoking. Lets do a quick compare and contrast. Azerbaijan invades Nagorno Karabakh and about 27 civilians die during the entire war. Armenia invades Nagorno Karabakh and the surrounding areas and 800,000 Azeri civilians are ethnically cleansed. It's quite clear who was subject to genocide here. The fact you're blaming victims of genocide is a terrible look for you.
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  63. @R.V. Generally when you lose a war and sign a peace agreement. You kind of have to adhere to the term of the agreement you signed. That is kinda how it works.
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  64.  @teaser6089  Turkey certain doesn't have the capability to invade and occupy Greece. The North land passage is too narrow and mountainous (easy to defend) and Turkey doesn't have the naval transport capabilities for an amphibious invasion of Greece (Only nation on America that can do that is America at this point.) So yes, the Turks are delusional when they make claims like we'll be in Athens in 2 weeks. But you're also delusional if you think Greece has anywhere near the military might to even try to defend those islands if Turkey were to invade them. The difference in distance to those islands, coupled with the gulf in the capabilities of the two nations would ensure Greece wouldn't even try to defend those islands if a war broke out. Turkey won't attack Greece because worldwide sanctions would cripple it. This idea that some article in the EU would have EU members enter a hot conflict is absolutely ridiculous. No EU nation has the military logistics to wage a war that far from it's shores. France the EU's largest military by far by their own admission only has enough munitions for a 4 day war. The only nation capable of stopping such a thing militarily is the United States. But generally speaking when you take actions hoping others will defend you, history has shown this to be an extremely dangerous policy to follow. It rarely works out well in the long term. Ask Ukraine how that is working out for them right now.
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  65.  @teaser6089  So according to your Greece's nation foreign policy is to show aggression toward it's neighbor and then hope other people come to defend them if their neighbor reacts? Hmmm, in the long term I wonder how that policy is going to play out.
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  66. @Estraume, Turkey has certain been pushing in that direction for quite a while. If they continue on this path they can certainly wrestle a lot of influence away from Russia in the Caucasus and Central Asia (they're already chipping away at it) China's influence in Central Asia is economic in nature and Turkey simply does not have the economic might to combat that or give Central Asians better economic incentives than China. That region in the next 30 years will probably be Turkey having military and cultural influence there and China having economic influence there. Russia is not in great shape there.
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  67. @A Kend, No way the Russians or the Azeris will allow UN peacekeepers into that region. Not to mention Armenia might not be too keen on it considering the UN peacekeepers track record for protecting civilians. Anyone forget Bosnia, when Dutch soldiers just watched as Serbian soldiers slaughtered like 10,000 civilians right in font of them in a "safe zone." Not to say the Azeris are going to slaughter Armenians (they would have during the war if they wanted to) but it is to say no besieged people will trust UN peace keepers.
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  68. @billyjesus5442 It was overall a lazy approach in this video simply ignoring a lot of the factors which led to this situation. Easy to understand narratives make for easier stories even if they draw false narratives. I doubt this channel had any intent in doing anyone dirty. They were simply too lazy to do the research and decided to spout nonsense on the issue.
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  69. Seems they've been studying European negotiation tactics.
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  70.  @Tespri  They score high in trustworthiness when it comes to domestic corruption rates, yes. How about their behavior when dealing with other nations? Why do you think the Global South hates Europe? You might want to look into those dealings. Especially France's "trustworthiness" in Africa.
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  71.  @breaderikthegreat3224  When the 2020 war happened Ukraine wasn't a thing and Iran didn't have trouble with it's people. They still didn't step in and intervene for Armenia. You know why? It's difficult to ask any nation to stick it's neck out and help the side which illegally invaded it's neighbor's internationally recognized territory and ethnically cleansed over 800,000 civilians. It's not a good look, so this is mainly the reason why no one stepped in.
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  72. ​ @csvigneshwar3390  So you're basically saying there is a good reason international law was broken and 800,000 civilians were ethnically cleansed. Interesting.
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  73.  @airinmaz729  Really, so you're saying Armenia didn't illegally invade Azerbaijan and illegally occupy it's internationally recognized territory? A plethora of UN resolutions would disagree with you. You also going to tell us the 800,000 Azerbaijani civilians which were brutally ethnically cleansed just up and vanished into thin air? Nothing to see here?
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  74. @Tyranitararmaldo, There is no alliance shift. They're essentially playing horse trading between Syria and Ukraine. You give here I take there. You take here, I take there. People forget these two nations are in a nasty proxy war in Syria. What alliance?
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  75.  The_Gambler10  Well let me take a crack at it. As bad as it is here are our advantages over Europeans. 1. We have the ability to produce our own energy. Europe does not. 2. We have the ability to militarily protect our trade routes, Europe does not. 3. We have the ability to go get energy, Europe does not. This list can go on for days, not only for America but many other nations who will probably surpass Europe in the next 50 years. You fail to realize or appreciate the situation Europe's current leadership has put it in.
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  76.  @miguelfernandes1920  They were offered a lot of great plans for well over 30 years. They rejected every single one of them, they preferred to opt for war. So the Azeris gave it to them eventually. So they really can't complain about the outcome can they?
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  77.  @teffuniotofu6905  I never claimed they did. While I go learn more about African geography. Why don't you take lessons on how to comprehend what you're reading before responding. This will help both of us I guess.
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  78. @illy5168 Egypt has some problems in that region with nations who Turkey happens to have a lot of leverage over. That is what he means. Friendlier relations with Turkey helps solve some of Egypt's geo strategic problems. Like their massive issues with their neighbor Libya.
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  79. @Hession0Drasha That is what it boils down to, if an Africa nation has something the world wants. It makes sense they'll go with the best deal. The fact France is absolutely freaking out about an African nation having the right to decide who it can sell what to is very telling.
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  80. @Themelbournelad, Sweden isn't nearly important enough to take such drastic action. Especially not an action which would free up Russia's southern flank. What will probably happen is the rest of the alliance will put pressure on Finland to decouple their Nato bid from Swedens and Finland will join. It's really Finland and their geography Nato needs, not really Sweden.
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  81. @590 Name one powerful nation that isn't. At least their contractions are few compared to some of the others.
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  82.  @ahmadel-zebedy  You do realize that statement is completely detached from the reality of the sitaution right?
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  83.  @dai-belizariusz3087  Imagine I steal all the money in your bank and when you claim you're poor because I robbed you, someone says "cope harder" You're a real special kind of insane aren't you?
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  84.  @BRONCOWEN  Yes this is 100x more important than who some random singer is dating. But unfortunately what who a singer is dating tends to get much higher ratings than something like this. Also even if the media did cover it, we know they'll base it on what the state department wants you to think and you'll get an extremely false narrative on the issue anyway. So instead of knowing nothing about the issue, you'd probably walk away with a warped and untrue version of what is happening. If they don't feel an issue is important enough for them to take the energy to lie to us about it, they won't cover it. This is one of those situations. It is just the way our entire system of disseminating information is unfortunately.
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  85.  @soundwavesuperior5596  Because Serbia and Kosovo are within our orbit of influence, an area where we can project power. Hence important to the psychos we have running foreign policy. Along with a media who will report anything important to said psychos. There is also the fact Serbia and Kosovo are white and European, I'm sure that plays a small part as well. Where as Armenians and Azeris aren't Europeans hence not worthy of the same level of attention from this media. There are plenty of reasons, some big reasons some small reasons why our media simply doesn't care. But again it might be better this way, better know nothing to learn the media's completely false take on the issue no?
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  86.  @adamesd3699  I don't think the dictator in Egypt is going to craft his foreign policy (to save his own skin) based on events from 1956.
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  87. @athens1 For Greece's sake I hope you're right. Although it does come off a bit like hopium though. For all that hopium there is one reality which pretty much offsets all that by a long shot. Turkey pretty much has Egypt by the balls right now. Not sure with all the fires Egypt is trying to put out, they really give a flying fuk about some hypothetical lobby within the EU. An EU which literally has zero weight and influence in that region and zero ability to project hard power. That region is in wartime mode, they're all preparing themselves. The EU is the last place they're thinking about. Especially the nations of Egypt and Lebanon which are in the crosshairs right now.
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  88.  @taimunozhan  What claims in Africa have they made? The man is simply calling out a simple reality.
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  89.  @ektekp  Maybe it does maybe it doesn't. I doubt you'll be the one deciding that though. I still fail to understand how exactly that ties into France's crimes in Africa. Is your position on the matter so indefensible that the only refuge yo'ure finding is the "I know you are but what am I" tatic? Interesting.
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  90.  @davolpatel  Actually if you cared to pay attention it is France being taught some very hard lessons. France doesn't have much to offer the world in terms of something positive anymore but in India's case perhaps France can teach their people to use toilets instead of defecating on streets, beaches and traintracks. Just a thought.
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  91.  @ChinnuWoW  You pull out a perfect strawman, then when a person expands into your own strawman to show how ridiculous it is, you cry strawman. Very interesting indeed.
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  92. Will Armenia lose Karabakh? Dude they already did. It is part of the 2020 ceasefire agreement.
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  93. Or maybe he is trying to extract concessions out of Russia in Syria.
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  94. @Krisselissan, I would have been worried about what Azerbaijan might do during the war in 2020 when they could have easily done anything they wanted. They took huge swaths of land while only a few dozen civilians were killed. If you compare that to when Armenia invaded the same territory in the 1990s, 800,000 civilians were ethnically cleansed. So yea, something I worried about during the war but no longer worry about considering who the Azeris behaved during the war.
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  95.  @jak4596  Did they try to slaughter the ethnic Azeri civilian population there too like they did in Karabakh and it's surrounding regions? I doubt that was the answer you were looking for. The truth is usually ugly.
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  96.  @genrikmuradyan9967  I see you're following the world famous "how to deny war crimes guide book to the T." I think it's chapter three no? Where it says 3. Claim they did worse to you. Where have I seen this method of war crimes denial before? Hmmmm
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  97.  @genrikmuradyan9967  Another thing, weren't those 10k soldiers technically an illegal occupying force/militia on the internationally recognized territory of another nation via international law? Legally speaking you can't put an illegal militia group on par with civilians.
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  98. @Guns and Bullets, no matter how bad things get there it's still 1000x better than those places. Take a look at their property prices in dollar amounts as well. Anyone who invested there in the past few years has 4x their money. Their real estate prices are insane due to foreign investment, especially in the past year. People with money apparently think it's a good place to invest as well. Not sure short term currency fluctuations and economic chaos changes the long term outlook of that country.
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  99.  @wolfgangrenner4152  The EU is an economic club not a military one. It's reason for being isn't for war. You're comparing apples to oranges.
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  100.  @wolfgangrenner4152  My only interest is the reality of the situation. I have zero reason to carry water for Russia as I'm an American. Nor do I have reason to carry water for Nato because I'd prefer my country not to be interventionist. But is this what you do? When you're losing a debate you try to make this about identity and who is on who's team? I'm not the one who made the rules for EU accession. The EU made those rules. I'm just telling you Ukraine won't and can't meet those rules. And did you just say Turkey is more conflict prone than Ukraine? Did you forget there is a HUGE war going on in Ukraine? Perhaps one of the largest scale wars since Vietnam? lol Dude you say the most insane things lol Also you said "conflict prone members." Last I checked Turkey isn't a member of the EU. Again you say the most insane things. I feel like I'm debating a 12 year old child.
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  101. @Felsbrcoken, why do you live in that country?
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  102. @Scuff Tuff, Geographically speaking Sweden isn't even 5% as value to Nato as Finland and Turkey. Militarily speaking, well it isn't even close.
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  103.  @georgedevries3992  One could argue that Turkey letting Sweden into Nato would be appeasement for the country funding armed groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals in a Nato member state. So if you think Sweden shouldn't be forced to stop, you're an appeasement guy too?
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  104. @Harunkuf7055. His moves had a lot more to do with Syria than it did Ukraine.
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  105.  @rajashashankgutta4334  Sure they do, most embassies do.
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  106. They don’t have a very high debt to gdp ratio.
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  107.  @JJ-io4pe  Their base interest rate isn't the rate they pay on their debt. You do understand how this works right?
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  108. Finland tying their Nato membership to Sweden is a strategic blunder of epic proportions. How exactly is it Finland's fault that Sweden had decided to fund armed groups which were blowing up schools and hospitals in a Nato member state? Why should Nato lose Finland's strategic depth and why should Finland lose Nato safety because of Sweden's actions. This is insanity.
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  109.  @TenTenJ  Yea in a lot of cases that is 100% true. However the inroads they've made in Central Asia and the Caucasus over the past 20 years is quite tangible.
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  110.  @buddy1155  Not saying who is right or who is wrong but your response was one of the dumbest I've seen in years. Your trying to debate against his premise that Turkey's economy is of X status in it's "region." To argue against that you use statistics of a nation which isn't even in that region? Seriously? Surely there must have been better ways to make your case. lol
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  111.  @ardabaser1349  To assume that Turkey's inability to do this is boiled down to bad leadership is insanity. How productive is the population there? How low are levels of corruption among the population. Do the people produce more than they consume? Is business trust high fostering ever greater investment? Also don't forget leadership doesn't evolve in a vacuum, leaders don't come from mars. Leaders of a nation generally come from within that nation and generally are a representation of what the people are like. I rarely here this from Turks but you seriously sound like people from a broken state who love to say "well if it wasn't for a bad government our nation would be XYZ." People in general terms get the leaders they deserve. While your leadership isn't great, it isn't terrible either. There isn't that much more that can be done with a population with such habits.
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  112.  @MichaelStergides  Him saying it wrong once and continuing saying it the same way would make a lot more sense. You're right
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  113.  @tuna708  Evet. Elbette sizin kadar guzel konusamiyorum ama derdimi anlaticak kadar var.
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  114. Did this guy really just say Erdogan appointed himself president for life? Talk about fake news lol They have scheduled elections dude, incase you haven't noticed.
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  115.  @memeolski  That's an interesting point. So the UN should send peacekeepers who will help do something against the UN's own resolutions? lol
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  116. @Cosmic Claim, on that front it won't matter who is elected. The government will be under intense pressure from the public to extract a pound of flesh from the Swedes, unlike western Europe over there the government has no choice but to do the bidding of the voters when there is that much pressure. Considering what Sweden has done to that country, I can't say I blame them. Nor will this change regardless of who is elected. I know here in the west when it comes to foreign policy our minds are blown just thinking about the people having a say in what the government does. lol
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  117. @Arpine Mikayelyan, You failed to mention their invasion and illegal occupation of the 7 regions around Karabakh which belonged to Azerbaijan. Not to mention they also ethnically cleansed 800,000 civilians. This idea that they're just a people who want to live peacefully is insanity considering the history of what happened.
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  118. @K. Anders, If what you're saying is true how exactly did he lose the midterm elections which made him lose all control of the largest municipalities and was a major blow to his party? You know there is something called facts and reality which kinda tell a different story than your false narrative.
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  119.  @geofflepper3207  It is dumbed down when you relate it to easy to understand things which literally have nothing to do with the action in the first place. Example: I punch you in the face for some complex reasons relating to our past. Someone comes out and claims I did it because you have nicer hair than me. Dumbing down. Something the mainstream media is extremely good at in an attempt to draw false narratives. "Putin invaded Ukraine because he is evil and crazy" is a nice example of dumbing something down. The fact the explanation is simple doesn't make it true.
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  120.  @napolien1310  You said there is no proxy war, then in the next sentence you prove there is a proxy war. lol When you arm and support two different sides in a conflict, that is the definition of a proxy war. You know what the term proxy war means right?
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  121.  @jakehall4493  To have a well functioning democracy you need an educated populace. Having a bunch of people who don't know that you're and your are two different words and when to use each is never good for democracy anywhere.
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  122.  ScavHub  I live in a country where it's pretty obviously headed down the dark hall of authoritarianism but no one seems to care. Welcome to the United States.
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  123. Syria is close to the Zionist apartheid state, as long as Israel is there they will never be left alone.
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  124. Do you not find it odd that a country will try to join a collective defense organization while at the same time funding armed groups which are blowing up buildings in a member of said collective defense organization?
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  125.  @mikkelv7020  I don't really watch Turkish news. Sweden claiming it doesn't fund the PKK is nothing more than a false narrative. The PKK has many branches all with different names and all collect money to further their cause. I'm not interested in a debate about their actions being right or being wrong. Fact of the matter is the groups that Sweden is funding is going directly into PKK operations as these groups are subsidiaries of the PKK. That would be like Bin Laden opening up funding for his organization, me sending them hundreds of millions of dollars and then claiming I never technically gave it directly to AL Queda. That argument is ridiculous. Now the Kurds might be right they might be wrong, I'm not interested in that. What I am interested in is the fact Sweden is funding armed groups which are attacking a Nato member state while Sweden is trying to join Nato. It's rather awkward don't you think?
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  126.  @mikkelv7020  There are 100s of groups gathering money for that organization, nor are they shy about it. So your litmus test to remove your cognitive dissonance is asking someone to list the names of the groups? It's fairly obvious you don't really have any arguments, especially since Sweden isn't really hiding what they're doing. Either way it's all a moot point. You believing it or not believing it doesn't change the fact Sweden is getting vetoed. Pretending they aren't doing waht they're doing isn't the best policy.
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  127.  @questionmaker5666  So essentially you believe you're winning a debate in which you have zero talking points because you're too lazy to do a 4 minute google search? Is that what I'm supposed to gather from this? It would be akin to me asking for proof Russia invaded Ukraine. It's a very intellectually lazy way to debate my friend. And is usually a refuge for those who have trouble winning a debate on it's merits. Good luck with that.
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  128.  @JohnSmith-fp2mk  Azerbaijan invades the region in 2020 and about 27 civilians die. Armenia invades the same region in the 1990s and 800,000 civilians get ethnically cleansed. So in your world view you're a barbaric beast if you aren't slaughtering civilians in the 10s of thousands? Do people where you work know you hold these views? Don't forget what you put on the internet has an odd way of catching up with you one day.
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  129.  @armeniancrusader7908  You mean the one that refused to fight and surrendered?
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  130. There is really nothing about this conflict that will have any impact on global affairs. It's a small mountainous area and it's a minor territorial dispute. Hell even in their recent "all out" war in 2020 barely anyone died lol They fought for a few weeks, the Azeris surrounded and cut off the Armenian army and the Armenians surrendered. Nothing sensational enough to capture the world media's attention.
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  131.  @BeautySavesWorld  So do one of Armenia's "European" values you speak of include invading a neighbor's internationally recognized territory and ethnically cleansing 800,000 civilians? Is that the point you're trying to make? Not to mention trying to dehumanize those people who were brutally ethnically cleansed to make it okay? Mass killings of untold amounts of women and children are "beautysavingtheworld" in your book? On a scale of 1-10 just how horrible of a human being are you?
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  132. DonMarley69. Kind of like how Armenia wanted no Armenians in the territory it occupied? The difference is Armenia acted on this "want" and savagely ethnically cleansed 800,000 Azeri civilians. War crimes are hard to hide my friend, they have a way of coming back and biting you in the arse.
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  133. ​ The_Gambler10  That is simply not going to happen. Essentially Europe will have to grapple with high energy costs for a very very long time. The oil coming out of the global south, if there is enough demand in Asia they'd rather give it there. If they will give discounts they'll give it to the Asians. Many of these nations have had a sketchy past with Europe and the global south would like nothing more than to see Europe in pain. This makes me feel bad for the eastern Europeans though as they've really never done anything to anyone in the global south. Once that pipelines from Russia went offline. Europe simply has no access to "cheap" energy, nor will it. I doubt Russia would trust Europe enough to spend billions on pipelines like they did before. The gig is up, this is game over for Europe. Maybe just maybe in the long term some eastern European nations can get access to cheap energy if they're able to get pipelines built through Turkey. For Western Europe there really is no way out of this mess they've dug for themselves.
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  134.  The_Gambler10  Yes so intelligent that somehow your leaders have managed to screw up the one thing that kept your progressing. (Cheap energy) Also this isn't a situation you can "get out of." Cheap energy has been the backbone driving European industry for well over 50 years. When that cheap imput is gone, so is the industry that relies on it to stay competitive. It's game over, you can't magically conjure up cheap energy. Now it's a race against the clock for renewables, not sure that tech will be able to replace fossil fuels fast enough before Europe has to deindustrialize. As they say in the competitive video game world. GGs.
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  135.  The_Gambler10  We're in serious trouble here in America, you're 100% correct. Yet as bad as things are here (which is really really bad) it's still 100x better than the position Europe finds itself in.
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  136.  @lordofmercy4807  That was a nice reminder to Europe about how the world actually works lol
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  137. @Martin Gray, referendums don't count when youv'e ethnically cleansed everyone who might vote against it. Once those 800,000 Azeri civilians from Karabakh and the 7 surrounding regions were ethnically cleansed. No referendum will hold any sort of legal weight in international law. Not to mention the Albanians didn't ethnically cleanse 800,000 Serbians in Kosovo either.
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  138.  @emrestotheemresto9770  I guess those Azerbaijanis knew what was coming. Not long after said referendum 800,000 Azeri civilians were ethnically cleansed from those regions. One of the greatest crimes of our generation.
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  139.  @Raven-kx4bu  Yea it's usually people who are party to said conflict who tend to make the most insane claims about it. Like the OP's initial post, glossing over illegal invasion and ethnic cleansing.
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  140. @Mr Mr, TLDR has a track record of sticking with narratives and literally making things up to fit those narratives. Anyone who has followed elections in that country know that their polls are pretty damned accurate. A lot more accurate than here in America, those polls telling us Hillary would win in a landslide. The polls there predicted Erdogan's party would lose the midterm elections not too long ago. The polls were right (as usual) So this idea of calling polls that have been spot on for like 25 years "unreliable" shows the relationship TLDR has with facts, that relationship is not good lol With that said, according to the polls, it's too close to call. This election could go either way.
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  141.  @alrxandersmiths242  You can be as sick of it as you want. The fact of the matter is the EU nations have no choice. They've decayed so much that the elites there almost aren't aware of the fact their 3rd rate nations now. Turkey would literally steam roll all of them. And Turkey isn't even a super power. That is the reality of who the EU are now. So you can't really blame them for being over for America, hoping to get some protection. History books will be written about how powerful that region was when it's 3rd world country status 100 years from now.
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  142.  @Me-yq1fl  They have a functional rapid deployment force mean to fight Africans throwing rocks and machine guns. A real war? Not so much.
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  143.  @Erwin1293-  Poland has teeth. UK they might be able to grow some after an outbreak of hostilities. France? Not so much. About Germany I agree, they have the industrial capacity to outstrip every other EU nation. But military isn't just equipment, it's about proper training and proper tactics. It will take Germany 5-10 years to get up to speed (assuming they have to will to do so.) Germany also has other problems, they probably won't have enough ethnic Germans to fill the ranks. Germany is also notorious for their lack of ability in assimilating immigrants. So if the military is filled with people who don't really care much for Germany emotionally, how well will that army perform? Germany's best bet is to mass produce arms and let Poland use them lol
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  144.  @Erwin1293-  I never claimed what we did in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan wasn't even. Also Germany didn't do anything with the Ukraine war for moral reasons. You did it because you had no choice. You are a vassal state of the United States and will do as you're told. Don't blame me for this, blame your leaders.
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  145.  @pocarski  First off most of the EU nations aren't even meeting their targets for Nato standards. And even if they were, money doesn't always equate quality as it's possible to have a bloated system which eats up money and gets nothing done. Which is essentially the problem with European military forces. Also if Turkey attacks Greece, it won't trigger article 5. Considering both are Nato states. The only force even capable of doing anything about it is America, so it's a coin toss if they'll react or not react. How Europe feels about the issue is irrelevant since they can't do a damned thing about it. They don't even have the logistics to get enough manpower over to the region to get in the fight. Europe is still under the delusion that they matter, they don't. More powerful nations decide and Europe then has to react to that reality. This is the position Europe is in and it's going to get worse.
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  146.  @viktorg6823  I find it fascinating that there are people who will make posts like this and not even try to debate the point they're complaining against. It is fascinating if you think about it.
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  147.  @viktorg6823  Yet you have wasted your time writing these walls of text. Without actually saying anything interesting. Well done. And yes someone claiming the EU invading Turkey was stupid, which is what my entire post was, explaining to them it wasn't possible.
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  148.  @viktorg6823  I'm glad you don't have time to make any points but have all the time in the world to talk about how you don't have time to make points. Well played Viktor, well played.
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  149.  @louiscypher4186  The EU begging or not I guess would depend on who is in the white house. If the globalists are still in, EU won't have to beg. The globalists will never miss a chance to get involved in a war. If a guy like Trump is in office yes Europe will have to beg. If the United States doesn't step in Europe will only be able to watch as Turkey most likely rolls over Greece.
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  150. @6668 You do realize Europe is a continent and a race right? Hopefully you can understand this distinction on a fundamental level. Also if you actually believe most of the nations of Europe are democratic and also believe most of their people are believers in and respect human rights. How can you then explain how most European nations are backing a genocide going on in Gaza right now? If the people are believers in human rights and democracy actually exists in those nations, why aren't these human rights defenders stopping their government from aiding, arming and cheerleading the worst human rights crimes the world has seen since WW2. A lot of times you need to take the rhetoric you're saying and see if it stands up against reality and facts. The fact your oppressors and people who hate your guts programmed you like a robot to defend them at all costs is extremely interesting. You're like a posterchild for a colonized mind.
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  151.  @canerc6668  I fail to see what your dislike of Erdogan has to do with your ridiculously false impression of us here in the west. We can literally fund, arm and cheerlead the worst war crimes the world has seen since WW2. Our governments can starve 1.3 million people so Israel can steal their homes, our governments can murder women and children for fun, and you'll still be claiming our governments care about human rights. You can like or dislike any political party you want in Turkey, I personally don't care. But what you say idoitic things like the west cares about human rights, someone will call you out on your insanity. Have you ever lived here in the west? Do you have any idea what is going on here?
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  152. @Samuel Truski, Solar and wind technology isn't even close to being a feasible way to generate the bulk of a nation's energy needs. There is actually a world map of sections for where solar and wind make sense and where they simply won't put out more than you put in to make them work.
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  153.  @teaser6089  Look at a map that shows where solar is economically feasible and where it isn't. There are a few very small pockets in that country where it would work which accounts for like 4% of their land mass. As far as waiting for help from the EU, yes they're in terrible shape but they aren't in that terrible shape. The idea of asking the EU for help never ends well for anyone.
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  154.  @teaser6089  This might be the only time I've ever seen a Greek make the argument that their economy is good lol
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  155. @Harold I'm not sure it's going to get resolved. People underestimate how angry the Turks are over this issue with Sweden funding armed groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals in their country. There is far too much pressure on the government from the public to not let this go. Any leader who lets this go will lose the next election
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  156. @badofi I'm not really interested in the Kurdish issue, I'm quite indifferent to it. I'm more interested in seeing governments who've become so detached from reality that they're shocked their actions have consequences. (Sweden)
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  157.  @soap_764  Not much Iran can do about it.
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  158.  @theyeening  Then it should have negotiated when it had the chance.
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  159.  @miguelfernandes1920  Reality always wins. And this time it struck pretty hard.
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  160.  @_hunter_hunter1048  So something that happened over 1000 years ago makes it okay for France to rob people in Africa today? I've seen your other posts, I'll ask again. HOW INSANE ARE YOU? That would be like me walking in your house and shooting your family in the head. And my defense would be well 10000 years ago this random guy did something else to this other random guy therefor me shooting you in the head today is fair game. Is that your argument?
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  161.  @mihangelap-williams9871  So just because someone else committed a crime we have to ignore the crime we happen to be talking about? Is that your argument here. England yes you have a point, don't add China to that list. China would have to slaughter people at a huge rate in Africa to even come close to the numbers France has put up. The outrage isn't faux, the outrage is real. If it wasn't France wouldn't be sent packing from so many nations even though it is threatening military intervention. Essentially the robber is telling the home owner if they don't let the robber finish robbing the house, the robber will get violent. I think the Africans have realized the emperor has no clothes and have essentially called France's bluff. France is far too weak to really do anything about it.
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  162.  @aptalyoutube.  USA did nothing during the conflict. A few words here and there doesn't turn into tangible support. Armenia's only real support at the time came from Russia and Iran. Azerbaijan's real support came from Turkey and Israel.
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  163.  @aptalyoutube.  The safest place is in the middle.
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  164.  @MettMagier  You sure that France supports democracies in Africa? You see they complain about democracy if their man in charge gets taken down by a coup. But cheer it on when their man is the one administering the coup. (Which has happened btw) Also I'd hardly call France's version of Democray in Africa a good thing. The only democracy they like is one where they can cheat the results and get "their man" in power. We know what France does, the idea that anyone else doing business with these nations will be colonizers is ridiculous. You're saying if I'm in a room with a rapist I should stay there and let them keep raping me because if I escape I might get raped by someone else? Do you have any idea how insane that theory sounds?
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  165. @Fuuby, Except during that time Nato didn't seem to interested in getting involved.
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  166.  @meh23p  If you'd be bothered to look it up you'd realize they have plenty of census records of how many people lived where. You also need to understand what a large chunk of land Armenia took outside of just Karabakh. Filled with people and then magically completely empty after the invasion. It is nice to see you're using the time honored guide book of how to deny war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide that literally every denier of every case of ethnic cleansing uses. 1. It never happened 2. It's propaganda 3. The numbers are inflated 4. They did worse to us. That is essentially the check list you're going to use I'd imagine. Well done Slobadan would be proud.
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  167. @Geokeo, they might have found it kind of silly how much the Greeks were boasting to the entire region about their economic miracle. Especially when it was later exposed to be a huge bubble based on debt and no real substance. It wasn't just the Turks who found that interesting, it was basically all regional nations. What exactly did the Greeks do during the time they were borrowing free money to piss all their neighbors off?
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  168.  @razsargsyan5860  Interesting point of view. So you're saying that a nation checking materials comming into their nation to make sure weapons aren't smuggled to known illegal militia groups is gencoide. But Armenians actually invading their neighbor's internationally recognized territory and brutally ethnically cleansing 800,000 people is just fine? In what warped universe would any rational person make such insane claims?
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  169.  @juliane__  If those migrants brutally took over France, killed millions and turned the rest into slave labor. I guess then we could say they're even.
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  170. @diegoyuiop. His policies haven't changed one bit. How receptive some nations are to those policies have changed. Egypt being case in point.
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  171.  @anl8081  Except relations with a nation like Egypt have literally zero impact on their domestic policy. The voters simply don't care.
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  172. @Scaper12123, I don't think you understand the situation very well. Odds are Biden will find no one will be there to even talk to him. Trump could have pulled this off but Biden has completely and utter burned all bridges there.
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  173.  @enjoymfs9715  Biden probably has no idea where Sweden is, let alone understanding the complexities of these problems. Besides even if he were aware, not sure he can say much as he is supporting the same groups lol Difference being America can do this and get away with it. Sweden on the other hand can't.
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  174. Maybe they should ahve thought of that before they decided to invade another nation's internationally recognized territory and then decided to ethnically cleanse 800,000 civilians from said area. Just sayin.... So yea, they're going to get squeezed.
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  175. People who watch all these fake media outlets who have zero relationship with the truth have absolutely no idea how much support this dude actually has. But this time it does seem like that support as eroded to a point he just might lose.
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  176.  @yuchoob  Almost all of them?
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  177.  @RouGeZH  By putting intense physical pressure on their governments to sell their natural resources to French companies for pennies on the dollar. This isn't that complex.
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  178. Funny this video doesn't show the EU which has probably seen the sharpest decline in democracy in the past decade of any region. The ruling elite literally doesn't give a flying fuk what the people want.
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  179. @Kasyon, the issues in the Aegean and Med sea between Turkey and Greece have been a flash point for well over 70 years. Well before anyone believed there was oil and natural gas down there.
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  180.  @gengis737  They're still pretty well funded.
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  181. Well to be fair, at least unlike India both those nations have populations who use bathrooms instead of defecating on the streets. Just sayin...
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  182.  @tk5gqj514  Yet interests tend to win out over nationalism and theology. If it's in their interests to do something, they'll do it. If it's not they won't. This is how nations operate, have always operated and will always operate.
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  183. @hieronymusbutts7349. It seems you fail to grasp the geo political significance of this country. Look at a map sometime.
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  184.  @calidj6841  This comment legit made me laugh. You probably hit the nail right on the head. Sounds like sour grapes.
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  185.  @Beyonder1987  Do you have any idea the amounts of gas in question? It is very small amounts, nothing that can change foreign policy. What is going to be tough for Armenia ist he pressure they're going to be put under if they don't simply adhere to the tenants of the ceasefire agreement they signed. The idea of signing a ceasefire and then ignoring what you signed is nothing short of insanity. It is like they're itching for another war.
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  186. @ValensBellator. A government which actually is forced to do things their voters want. You call an autocracy. A government which really doesn't give 2 sh!ts about what the voters want. You call a democracy? Hmmm the collective cognitive dissonance is quite literally terrifying. Up is down and down is up. But then again we live in times were people think men can get pregnant, so yea why not believe the opposite of everything else is true.
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  187. @Marcus Sver, Their economy is in shambles but they've required no assistance from western nations. What in the world are you talking about? Most the assistance they've gotten are from nations like Qatar and investments from the Saudis and the UAE. Last I checked those nations aren't "western." What is it with people and their amazing ability to spread fake news lol
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  188.  @ΗλιαςΓεραλντο  So when you run to their nations and steal all their resources it is fine. When they come to your country to work it is a big no no? Make up your mind you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you're starving because someone stole all your food, it makes sense to go to where your food was sent so you can get a piece. No? Now if you wanted real parity, if those migrants violently took over France, massacred millions of people and used the rest as slave labor for 200 years. Then yea you guys can call it even.
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  189. Like him or hate him the guy has been extremely predictable. So I'm not sure where this unpredictability comes from.
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  190.  @cashewnuttel9054  Half the country thinks yes half the country thinks no.
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  191.  @idealicfool  It isn't the military which fights domestic tyranny. It's the people.
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  192. @MrWorshipMe. There is a huge difference. The new Syrian government has given permission for Turkey to enter their territory. Israel has no permission. Which means, legally speaking Israel's invasion is illegal where as Turkey's incursion is legal. You're literally arguing that a burgler entering your house is the same thing as your friend who you invited over. You're being ridiculous.
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  193. @Farzadalikozai3738. This is so true.
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  194.  @frankthetank5708  Yea Hitler also said the earth was not flat. So that is the argument you're going to make? So pointing out what France is doing simply cannot be mentioned because Hitler also said it? How insane are you?
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  195.  @NeVarve  No, France simply invaded these nations, killed millions of people, stole all their resources, then controlled their money supply so they could never really resisit. Much much better right?
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  196.  @Hardcore_Remixer  Except he hasn't made any "claims" in Africa.
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  197.  @PERSIAN_GULF-f7o  Technically Anatolia is actually owned by the Anatolians. Are you one of those delusional wided eyed nationalistic Turks that isn't aware that most of the people in that country are indigenous Anatolians who were assimilated? Believing some fantasy that your ancestors were nomadic horsemen from central Asia? lol
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  198.  @ChinnuWoW  You can't make claims and then pretend you never made them. I'd imagine using the word coward is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. If you're going to make statements alluding to something, at least own up to it.
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  199. @Farzadalikozai3738. Hitler also said a bunch of times the earth wasn't flat. Just because he said something doesn't automatically make it false. That is such a childish argument you're trying to make.
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  200.  @Spacemongerr  Imagine the only nation int he region you haven't pissed off is the Islamic Republic of Iran. YOu have to be doing something wrong lol
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  201. Technically they're the third strongest army. Not the second.
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  202.  @Tamara-nn1wr  Most wouldn't agree with that. Obviously it's hard to know for sure unless two nations go to war but most people believe England has a more powerful military than Turkey. The phrase most media and politicians use about Turkey is "Second largest army in Nato." Which is true. Either way we're debating hairs, they're an extremely powerful military force. One which can't be pushed aside like most armchair military experts in this thread seem to think. "Oh lets get rid of Turkey and bring in Sweden." lol Right...
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  203.  @JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff.  Lets see. Invading another nation's internationally recognized territory. Occupying another nation's internationally recognized territory for well over 30 years. Exploiting the natural resources of said area for 30 years. Ethnically cleansing 800,000 civilians from said areas. I mean honestly what else could they have done?
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  204.  @gevorgvanarmenie9788  SO you're saying it's okay to invade another country and ethnically cleanse 800,000 civilians? hmmm
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  205.  @lu544  you literally proved the OP's point. You know why immigration won't stop? Because the UK leaders don't give a flying fuk what the people think. Your voice literally means nothing to the ruling elite. You basically live in a fully authoritarian state. So yea, the OP was right after all.
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  206.  @thalmoragent9344  Rebellions tend to happen anywhere where the ruling elite continue to disregard the will of the people. Expect more rebellions as the people start to figure out they don't live in a democracy anymore.
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  207. @giantwario, Worst person I know? hmmm Macron didn't make that point did he?
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  208.  @cems7258  There is one thing the global south needs to understand about the western body politic here. If you see us freaking out over something. That is when you know it is true. Considering the regime in Paris's reaction to Erdogan's comments and seeing the meltdowns in this comments section. You can be sure he hit the nail right on the head.
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  209.  @za4520  Defend their populations by illegal invasions, occupations and brutally ethnically cleansing 800,000 civilians? Really?
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  210.  @bullmoosevelt4495  You do realize for something to be propaganda it has to be false right? Also your contention that something simply telling the truth is spreading Azeri propaganda is nothing short of insanity. How exactly would I even be privy to what their propaganda is? Last I checked there isn't a huge network of Azeri media floating around the ether. And yes the UN doesn't like borders changed via illegal invasions and ethnic cleansing. That much is a given. I also love your bit about "800,000 people weren't ethnically cleansed." So what happened to them? They just vanished into thin air? Why is it every single warcrimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing denier on the planet uses the same exact arguments. Do you guys all go to the same seminar on how to deny war crimes or something?
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  211.  @zee9709  That isn't always true in all cases. Look at Saudi Arabia and the UAE. All the money in the world buying all the best military equipment in the world and still don't have the ability to defend themselves. Yes money is an important component of building a strong military but it isn't the only component. You also need a culture of military service along with intelligent well trained officers.
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  212.  @zee9709  Nobody invades them because the United States protect them, not because they can defend themselves. They know they can't, which is why their foreign policy is what it is. Look at the Saudi Military in Yemen for god's sake. All the best military tech in the world and they're getting chumped up by a bunch of guys in sandles and rifles.
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  213.  @davidwuhrer6704  Yes they did and with all the best weapons on the planet they weren't even able to subdue a bunch of guys in sandals and AK47s.
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  214.  @davidwuhrer6704 When the imbalance is that vast, moral shouldn't matter. Moral, ineptitude or a combination of both. Doesn't change the fact the Saudi military is a joke and the regime knows it.
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  215. @Rektedbypaler, I'm not sure if they'll attack or not but I'll bet you a lot of money Nato will watch like they did with Ukraine. They'll make stern condemnations, maybe some short term sanctions but that will be pretty much it. It will pretty much be a carbon copy of the Cyprus war in 1973.
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  216. Correct Turkey joined after the Korean war.
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  217. What a ridiculous piece of commentary.
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  218. I'd imagine if Nato brow beats Sweden a bit for funding armed groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals in a Nato member state. Sweden might change it's policy. I doubt it though.
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  219.  @alioshax7797  Is that how you rationalize colonization? If they like it or don't like it, the brutal regime in Paris is eventually going to have to give up all it's overseas territories. Not to mention it will eventually pressured to pay insane amounts of reparations to nations like Algeria for the death and destruction to reigned down upon them in the past. These things will eventually bankrupt France, there will be civil unrest and France will be turned into a third world hellhole. I'd say this all happens in the next 50-60 years.
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  220. Macron is interesting for sure. The companies he protects literally got caught funding ISIS and he is trying to shift to blame on someone else. The midget running the regime in Paris is a character.
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  221.  @wakaisgood  Not to mention their structural problems yea?
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  222. This is a pretty ridiculous video. If he loses the election he has no choice. I doubt he is going to pull a full blown establishment move like here in America when they installed Joe Biden into the White House.
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  223.  @genrikmuradyan9967  Oh so you're saying you agree this entire mess was created by Armenia illegally invading their neighbor's internationally recognized territory and ethnically cleansing 800,000 civilians from said area? Nice.
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  224.  @frankozrin5611  So the tried and tested method of victim blaming. Illegally invade your neighbor's internationally recognized territory. Brutally ethnically cleanse over 800,000 civilians. Then blame the victims for it. Well done Frank Zrin. You win the horrible person of the day award.
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  225. @aabi6235. What Cyprus issues? They solved that problem back in the early 1970s.
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  226.  @senzenimang1354  Except the Africans don't seem to agree with you.
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  227.  @greenkoopa  Don't go looking for outrage where it doesn't exist.
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  228.  @greenkoopa  Make joke, Get triggered when someone doesn't think it's funny. Nice. I love the times we live in here in the west. Feelings matter so much.
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  229.  @yuchoob  I don't remember doing that. How about you not telling someone to stop doing something they aren't doing? lol What is attracting all the morons to this video?
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  230.  @yuchoob  What is growing year on year? His approval rating? If so, can you please show us what you're basing this idiotic premise on?
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  231.  @sagichnichtsowiesonicht7326  That is a bad thing? lol
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  232.  @sagichnichtsowiesonicht7326  Nor is it a crime to sign up for youtube in 2020. Btw how is that pipeline of yours doing after we blew it up? I wonder what we'd have to blow up next till you guys grow enough balls to complain about it lol
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  233.  @leonalchemist  They have less and there for get desperate more often. A hint of desperation in EU nations and we'll see the same thing. Remember what happened during covid when it came to sharing needed medical supplies. The idea of unity went right out of the window immediately. Also historically don't try to compare Europe's greed with others. You'll lose that comparison every single time.
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  234.  @royalroyal2210 except Ukraine never brutally invaded their neighbor while ethically cleansing over 800,000 civilians like Armenia did.
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  235. Yea I don't think the Africans are too interested in that in relation to them being colonized.
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  236. No they'll just do one of two things with it. 1. They'll strip their natural resources while making sure it always has corrupt local leadership so they can't revolt. 2. If they have no natural resources they probably have a geo strategic value where they'll use that to their advantage. Making the lives of the people they are brutally occupying is never an option for the French regimes.
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  237. @Wolfgang Renner, If Nato had a "qualified majority" on such matters Nato would no longer exist. This isn't some book club people are signing up for. Every single nation is legally bound to protect every other member, the alliance will have no teeth if there are doubts as to if they will all step up to the plate when the time comes. It simply won't work the way you think it will.
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  238.  @wolfgangrenner4152  The idea of Ukraine in the EU (Nato membership or not) is a pipe dream. Ukraine would never meet the political and economic criteria. Let alone the lack of democracy and insane amounts of corruption.
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  239.  @wolfgangrenner4152  Desiring something and having the ability to get it are two different things. Nothing you said changes the fact that their democracy isn't up to par, their laws aren't up to the standard and there is far too much corruption in that nation for them to meet ascension requirements. It would take them 30 years of reforms to even get close. Not to mention the EU is already a sinking ship, being dragged down by dysfunctional states like Greece. You think they'll take on a case larger and more dysfunctional than Greece? All the rhetoric is great but when push comes to shove how do you see that playing out?
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  240. Are you referring to Biden trying to trigger WW3? Or Obama invading and destroying Libya which led to the migrant Crisis in Europe?
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  241.  sonrarabbukucuantiarab  You do realize these days that calling them that is seen by most of them as a compliment?
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  242.  sonrarabbukucuantiarab  I don't think France is a rational actor in the world stage anymore. Trying to reason with people who've fallen so far into their self imposed cognitive dissonance is impossible. All you can do is sit back and watch them burn their own house down. It will come soon.
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  243. As far as Energy goes if you're western European don't get your hopes up. Either way you guys are fuked.
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  244.  @enemyofthestatewearein7945  KSA would like to protect their own interests but at the same time doesn't want to see Russia collapse due to the fact they're in a conflict right now. A conflict the KSA really doesn't want to see the globalists win. Because once that is over (with a positive result), they know they're next. They will complain about their profits and do a few things to gain an advantage but they won't go far enough to really hurt Russia during this time.
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  245.  @basillah7650  Because when ever a nation gets independence France has a bag of tricks to make sure they pay a heavy price. Usually through destabilization, crash of currency and in my cases terrorism magically starts cropping up and destroys these nations making them almost unlivable. It is a playbook the regime in Paris has been using for nearly 200 years.
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  246.  @calebbearup4282  Ethic cleansing took place yet they're one of the most populace people in the country? Hmmm Interesting theory, now I'll wait for you to explain to me how the earth is flat. Have the Turks heavily oppressed the Kurds? Hell yes. Have they failed in the past to give them basic human right? Hell yes. But when you make wild claims like ethnic cleansing and genocide (which sounds insane btw considering the facts.) You literally destroy all your credibility.
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  247. @Intreoo, The amount of gas Azerbaijan sends the EU is quite small. It accounts for a very small percentage of what Europe imports. It isn't nearly enough of a figure to have any effect on EU foreign policy. The reason EU won't respond isn't the gas, they won't respond because they can't respond? Aside from a condemnation what exactly can they do? They don't have the military capability to get there let alone do something about it. I don't think the Azeris give a rat's arse what Europe thinks. I don't think the Armenians are stupid enough to believe Europe will change the outcome of anything for them.
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  248.  @EinFelsbrocken  Let me try to break down exactly what you said here. 1. If a country elects someone you don't like in a election it's a repression of democracy. 2. People should also only be able to vote for people of a certain age. I get that this guy Jawad Arif isn't playing with a full deck and his "western dog" comment was ridiculous. But I'd imagine your post was about 10 times more ridiculous than his. You literally sound like a lunatic who doesn't know what the term democracy or what the term "will of the people" actually means. You quite literally sound like the biggest fan of authoritarianism and anti freedom.
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  249.  @Joso997  Modi isn't constantly being threated by Greece.
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  250.  @segiraldovi  While I'm not sure that will come to pass I can see that you have a valid point. A very valid point.
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  251. @Hic Hic Iran will scream holler and hoot but at the end they can't do much. They know if they attack the Azeris it will trigger war with Turkey. Not something Iran is keen on doing, they'd get slaughtered.
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  252. @Laurence Poloni, I hope their election isn't completely and utterly mired with corruption and irregularities like ours was. Or maybe he'll simply do what Hillary and the establishment did in the primaries. Simply steal the election. Who knows. But that is unlikely, aside from the incoherent screaming of the media here that Turkey isn't democratic, they're actually more democratic than we are. I have a bird's eye view, I've lived over there part time since the late 1990s.
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  253.  @SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers  With non stop lies being spread about him? Yea that is kinda Trump like. I'm no fan of this Erdo dude but what I see said about him in the mainstream media is nothing short of delusion and fantasy. Dictators don't lose primary elections and then lose control of the largest municipalities in the country. (Yes that happened there in the last election for anyone paying attention.)
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  254. There TLDR goes again failing to do just 10 minutes of research which would blow their premise out of the water. The idea that Turkey will even have to defend Somolia against Ethiopia is ridiculous and here is why. Turkey has immense influence on the Ethiopian government. Mainly due to the fact that when the western backed Tigray rebels were only a few days away from overthrowing the Ethiopian government Turkey stepped in and saved the Ethiopian government with drones which turned the tide. There are two major reasons why Ethiopia won't put itself in a position to confront Turkey. 1. Without Turkish support, the Tigray rebel's next wave will probably topple the government in Ethiopia. 2. The backbone of the Ethiopian military is now their drone fleet. Are we to believe they're going to use this fleet against Turkey who is the country which supplies all the ammunition for them? TLDR, what in the world are you thinking with these ridiculous videos, for the love of god do some research before putting these videos out. This deal has essentially ensured Ethiopia and Somalia won't be going to war anytime soon. The Turks won't sell either one of them out for the other nor will they allow the two to get into an armed conflict. The real question is if the Turks can afford this deal and all the resources they have to pour into Somalia over the next 10 years. That is the real question mark.
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  255.  @pamplemouse5  I'd imagine the Africans have a better sense of what a nation wants to do with them than you. They're the cutting the deals, apparently the deals are lucrative to them that they are super interested in them. Even while France is threatening them with miltiary intervention, war crimes and instability if they go for a better deal. Imagine putting a gun to someone's head that they have to sell you their car for 2 dollars while they aren't allowing you to sell it to another guy offering 10,000 dollars. This is essentially the insanity you're trying to rationalize.
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  256.  @justsefa1843  I'm not sure it's just racial, it's so much deeper and more sinister than that. There are an elite group of people who feel it is their birthright to "own" certain parts of the world. When they realize the people there are starting to fight back, well they freak out. A lot like France is doing with Africa right now.
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  257. Why so he can simply make things up out of thin air which aren't true and give a warped sense of what is going on there to everyone? Besides does Pakistan even have real elections without the military tipping the scales? (honest question)
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  258. @aogya2ods902. So that is how you justify France stealing the resources of these nations by any means? Seriously?
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  259.  @arminask  Ask the Russians.
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  260.  @jamesholden6142  They tried that already. Remember the coup attempt? Not sure if it was 2014 or 2016 but sometime around then they had the same exact idea as you.
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  261. @G4m3r 222, Actually the Azeris want the Armenians to "fight back." So they can press their military advantage. As far as the Armenians having no friends they should take a long look in the mirror as to why. Even Georgia who are othrodox Christians like hte Armenians were backing the Azeris in the war. Armenia really should ask itself why and what they've done to make literally everyone except Iran turn their back on them.
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  262.  @whydoiexistrnwhy  The hypocrisy where he claims he wants stability in some of these nations and does everything to keep instability to helps him stay in the nations where he isn't wanted. That hypocrisy perhaps? If you don't like that one how about France helping over throw an elected leader because they don't like their policies but then complain about a coup in another country because "their man" got thrown out. Would you like me to go on?
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  263.  @studentstudent5044  Militarily they're both weak. But Finland has something which is more valuable to Nato right now. Geography.
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  264.  @studentstudent5044  If Finland is in Nato and Russia does try to attack, it means WW3 and Nuclear Armagedon is upon us. So they probably won't. If they don't (which they probably wont) Nato essentially flanks Russia from 3 sides. In no part of this equation is Sweden that important. Besides Sweden already shot itself in the foot by funding armed groups which were blowing up schools and hospitals in a Nato member state. So even talking about this has become irrelevant. As far as Swedens weapons, they'll happily sell them to the United States if they are in or not in Nato. There is no worldwide law that says you can only sell weapons to nations which have a military alliance with you, so that point is kind of irrelevant no?
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  265.  @boarfaceswinejaw4516  That usually isn't case. France has a horrible habit of "punishing" these smaller nations who try to break away from their colonialism and brutality. In some cases it is direct involvement, in other cases they fund violent groups to stir up trouble, in other cases they try to economically place a strangle hold on the newly formed nations. The way the regime's in Paris see it, this is a good way to disincentivize the people from revolting against them. They did this in Haiti and that country never really recovered. They're currently doing this in places like Mali and Burkino Faso where as soon as the French were kicked out terrorist attacks in these nations are spiking at well over 300%. So the regular people are either terrified for their lives and start starving to death due to France's policies and they flee. This is a playbook France has been using for 100s of years.
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  266.  @markdowding5737  He is going to demand all sorts of things at this point, he might even demand them to send a man to the moon. That is the position Sweden has put itself it. The point of these ridiculous demands is to continue with their veto which stems from what I mentioned earlier. Didn't Sweden think for one second that funding armed groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals in a Nato nation might turn into a problem for them in the future? I guess this is what happens when delusional wokism takes over a country. All reason and logic are thrown out the window.
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  267.  @Conn30Mtenor  For sure, they have a terrible history of it. Although I'm not sure how that would excuse Sweden from funding armed groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals. That is like me saying "Charles was mean to his neighbor. Therefore I can blow up his car and kill his children." Do you have any idea how insane that is?
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  268.  @jeffScotty  You think not? Why exactly do you think they won't? And what is stopping them from doing so.
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  269.  @Gardstyle35  Facts>Your feelings. I'm sure the only people who agree with you is the Islamist Republic of Iran. Oh the irony no? I do find it interesting to see another live Genocide/War crimes denier. You guys all seem to follow the same guide book on "how to deny crimes." 1. Call it propaganda. 2. Dehumanize the people you've slaughtered. 3. Claim the numbers are inflated. 4. Claim they did it to you first. All war crimes deniers seemed to have gone to that same class to learn.
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  270.  @Gardstyle35  Also let me guess. The holocaust, Armenian genocide, Algerian genocide by the French and the Bosnian genocide. Those were all propaganda too right? I've heard this all before my friend.
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  271.  @jonathanmamo2079  I guess you forgot that not too long ago the western backed Tigray forces were able to topple the Ethiopian government when Turkey stepped in and saved them with drones. The backbone of the Ethiopian military is now those same drones. So you're saying they're going to attack the nation that actually supplies the ammunition to these weapons? lol So you think the Turks are going to give Ethiopia ammunition to attack Turkey with? Good luck selling that argument. lol
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  272. The title was ridiculous which was foreshadowing the fact they literally did very little research on what is actually happening between these two nations. A 15 minute google search would have saved them from this.
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  273.  @amh9494  It will make no difference if he stays or goes. Any politician in that country that lets Sweden into Nato easily will lose the next election. The Turks are hot skipping made that Sweden has been funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to armed groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals in Turkey. Sweden has really put itself in an awkward situation, Erdogan or no Erdogan Turkey is going to extract it's pound of flesh. Perhaps rightfully so.
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  274.  @amh9494  When armed groups are crossing the border and blowing things up, yea I'd imagine it's a defense issue no?
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  275.  @amh9494  You might want to read world events more often.
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  276.  @amh9494  So is that how you argue? By simply calling anything which emotionally triggers you "propaganda" regardless of how true it is? Interesting. Good luck with that debate tactic btw. I guess Russia invading Ukraine didn't really happen either. Just propaganda right?
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  277.  @amh9494  SO it's your contention that the PKK has only taken part in one bombing in Turkey? YOu do realize they've been at it since the 1980s right? You do realize more than 30,000 people have died right? I doubt that 30,000 all died in that one small bombing in istanbul recently. It's the age of the internet, why not look something up before trying to debate it? It would literally take you like 20 seconds of research to figure out how wrong your initial premise was. Cognitive dissonance is such a powerful thing isn't it? lol
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  278.  @liveforever9888  You do realize this is real life and not a video game right? The only country capable of doing what you want is my country (USA) and we'd have zero interest in doing such a thing. The idea of any European nation getting something like that done is absolutely laughable. Imagine having to go through a bloody invasion of a strategic area because some weak Europeans are butthurt? I think not. As a member of the EU you'll simply do as you're told, full stop.
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  279.  @xenofonkarykis8417  So we'll just completely and utterly ignore the fact the Greeks on Cyprus went full blown Hitler mode and tried to ethnically cleanse a minority group from the island? Is that your argument?
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  280. @@SteveTudesco It doesn't seem like it's either way. They have a complex relationship. Especially considering they've been on opposite sides of about 4 different proxy wars.
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  281. @Orktv4673. Actually it was their initial steps in their pivot to the east which essentially lifted the Russian shield that was allowing them to brutally occupy another nation's territory. Once they "pivoted" they get wrecked. The fact you think it is too little too late is odd.
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  282. Permanently collapsing? Not really. They had almost 2 decades of unimpeded growth. You can even call it uncontrolled growth which will eventually hit the wall. They’ll have a large turndown, which will last a few years and they’ll return to growth. Much like their huge economic crisis in the late 90s. This is simply how they do things. When times are good they step on the accelerator a bit too much. Then they break too hard not to crash but end up crashing anyway. Then they fix the car and go back to growth. I’ve been investing in that country since the 1990s and have gotten used to how they do things. In the long term they always grow and their prospects for the next 20 years still look good. Expanding manufacturing base and a very large, skilled and young workforce. They’ll still out pace any EU nation in a 20 year span.
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  283.  @JJ-io4pe  check the bond yield rate in USD not in Turkish lira
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  284.  @bars4745  Good luck explaining that to this guy. lol If they paid out 43% interest on USD like he claims, I'd be rich right now lol Not to mention the country would be flooded with investors (which it isn't)
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  285. @Steel40, the way things look there will be a conflict near those Greek islands regardless of who is in charge of Turkey or how the economy is doing. Cyprus however, I'd imagine that front will stay calm for a very long time.
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  286.  @andreaskalamas6829  If Turkey tried to attack the Greek mainland the price would be "huge" and I honestly don't think it can be done. Those islands however would literally be impossible to defend. They'd take it like a cake walk. The cost they'd pay would be international sanctions which would put them in a hole they'll never climb out of. That is why they won't be attacking these islands anytime soon.
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  287. @TenTenJ So some historical claim on a piece of proper some how gives nations the right to invade their neighbors and ethnically cleans 800,000 people? That is your argument? Do you also strangle puppies for fun on the weekends bro? Maybe push old ladies down stairs for giggles?
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  288. @Karan Kapoor, then why is the left riding him that he's being too soft on Sweden?
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  289.  @la1sk203  They also happen to have one of the few militaries in Nato which are capable of fighting a protracted war. Only 3 Nato members can make that claim.
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  290.  @buddy1155  If Hungary loves authoritarian regimes, then by that logic they must absolutely in love with the regime in Paris no?
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  291.  @pingu9729  I'm not sure I've ever heard the term "Treaty of Sevres" enthusiants or the term incel. I just know one thing, this guy is a moron.
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  292.  @cavaleer  The EU is a lot more likely to collapse than China is.
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  293.  @Reticulated_Spline  It would take a very long time for what you're saying to come to fruition. By then the EU will probably have collapsed. No one is going to bother going through with this entire geo political shift so Europe can get oil. That is insanity.
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  294.  @ardabaser1349  That's a bit of a stretch, bordering on impossible.
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  295.  @angelachanelhuang1651  A bank which probably won't survive when Europe collapses not too long from now.
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  296.  @zottirgen  I just call the dude Ghandi lol He is also a sad reflection of society here if he was seriously the best the opposition could muster. It's quite terrifying if you think about it. I think you guys have an a proverb for that. Ukseke tukursen biyik, assaya tukursen sakal. (hope the spelling was right) 🤣
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  297. The answer to this question isn't rocket science nor a mystery. You can only brutalize and exploit people for so long. Eventually they're going to push back.
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  298.  @Schaelpy  Our economy here under the globalist Biden regime isn't good but it isn't terrible either. So yea, an economic collapse isn't always a consequence of autocratic leadership.
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  299.  @giovanni-cx5fb  I don't know man, we listen to Joe Biden's speeches all the time and we're not hungry.
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  300.  @kalsangboztemir7962  He just won the election.
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  301.  @yksogrenci6376  Fact is what can any government in that country do? When you have a population which refuses to produce and has the most insane rates of cultural corruption what can be done? If the people are corrupt, naturally the government will be as well no? You can magically take the best government the world has ever seen, it still won't be able to fix that country.
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  302.  @cookiecola5852  They can withstand this for quite some time.
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  303. Except it was never an alliance. Russia has a heavy presence in Syria which heavily annoys the Turks, so they're using the Ukraine crisis to extract concessions out of Russia in Syria. Anytime the Russians baulk at their promises in Syria, Turkey pulls a stunt like this to remind them of what is at stake. This idea that these two are allies is ridiculous. They're literally fighting proxy wars against each other on 3 separate battlefields.
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  304. @Achyut Chaudhary, These nations lived under the Soviet Union for a very long term and suffered terribly. So your advice is for them to join the Soviet Union 2.0? lol The EU would never take Armenia and Azerbaijan aside from selling the EU gas wants nothing to do with them.
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  305.  @maxmichalik4938  For quite a while now Sweden has been financing armed groups which have been blowing up schools and hospitals in Turkey. So yea, you can imagine how angry the people are. No government can resist that level of pressure from it's people. Especially not a country which actually has real elections. That is why Finland was able to recently get in. Turkey essentially told them if they make their Nato bid separate fom Sweden's Finland could get in no problems. Finland took a while to make that decision but eventually realized it was the only way in. At first they made a joint bid to get in together, which is why Finland couldn't get in first time they tried. Either way no one really cares at this point because it was Finland with their huge border with Russia that held strategic importance for Nato. Once Finland is in Sweden being in or not in doesn't really matter to Nato strategic interests anymore. Which is probably why it's not big new anymore that Sweden is left out in the cold.
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