Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1.  @legiopatrianostra4702  Maybe that is why their society isn't collapsing like most EU nations. So lucky for them, for not being in "europe"
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  2. I don't think they really care what you did or didn't "go by." They're going to ram it down your throats either way. Welcome to the world of real politik.
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  3.  @powasjington4262  I'm not sure they are "doing what is necessary to secure world peace." They are, acting in line with their interests like most other nations.
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  4. @Big Boss, Turkey will surely be an extremely strong regional power. Super power? No. Not really possible.
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  5. @@A_R_B_G The Kurdish population has exploded in that country during the time you claim there is a genocide against them. Half the government is Kurdish for god's sake. Do you know what genocide means and what it entails? Or do you just randomly throw words around without actually understanding what they mean?
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  6. I'm no fan of this guy but I don't think anyone in that country will lose any sleep over some dude named Jacobunflapp and his feelings about who they should or shouldn't vote for.
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  7. @Joe Nichols, Before the change Turkey had a parliamentary system much like England and most European nations. He switched it to a presidential system which is less like England's and more like America's or France's. I don't think it made the country more or less democratic. Unless you believe England is more democratic than lets say France or America. If the people in a nation aren't democratic minded, you won't get a well functioning democracy even if you put in the most democratic models. Turkey will always be a mix of democracy and authoritarianism, It's steeped in the culture of the people. The leader being called a president or prime minister won't change that.
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  8.  @WiththegraceofgodHJ  Things that humor me don't impact my sleep. Your lack of self awareness is quite hilarious.
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  9.  @d-phoenix2198  China, yes for sure. They're tipped to be the next big power. Turkey being a regional power only, I agree with that as well. I don't see superpower status in their future. India though? Seriously dude? This is a country where over half their population still defecates in the streets. lol
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  10.  @Cdkmedia  Turkey is a regional power, anyone who claims this this not to be true is probably someone who simply doesn't want it to be true. Israel's military is purely defensive, it isn't set up to project power far from it's borders. You're comparing apples and oranges. As far as the region goes, even if you cut Turkey's military prowess by half it would still be a regional power. Not because they're truly powerful but because they're in a region of extremely weak nations. Syria? Iraq? Georgia? Bulgaria? Greece? That is like a list of the special Olympics of world military power. So yea, they're a regional power by every definition of the word.
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  11.  @punsmith  You seem a tad bit emotional over this issue. To a point you don't exactly come off as rational. Especially hurling insults at people calling sickening and uneducated because they don't share your worldview. I can always spot a person who isn't rational and is completely and utterly triggered by something. People like this generally have nothing to add to any debate other than anger.
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  12.  @chaosXP3RT  As someone who lives half the year in the west and half the year in Turkey It's fairly easy to say both sides have their biases about each other. I'd imagine the bias from the western media toward Turkey is more delusional than the bias in the Turkish media pertaining to the west. Sometimes while watching the news here in the United States about something going on in Turkey I'm left wonder if they're referring to the same country I live in 6 months out of the year. The coverage is simply that bad and not in line with reality.
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  13. @Chairman Meow, they geography is both a gift and a curse at the same time. It can't be an easy situation on any nation politically and economically that there are constantly wars going on on all it's borders. America invaded Iraq which borders Turkey, which caused chaos in Turkey considering the instability right across the border. Not to mention the economic dent it made. Then the Syrian civil war which came with the same problems Iraq falling apart had except this time they also kicked 5 million refugees into Turkey. They've also seen their other neighbor Georgia get invaded by Russia. Their neighbor across the black sea to the north Ukraine, well you know what is going on with that. It's a really sh!tty place to be and do business.
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  14. Yes I doubt you'll see many policy changes. Most of their policy isn't by choice but more so out of necessity. If the reasoning behind the policy doesn't change, the policy won't.
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  15.  @powasjington4262  Peace in some far flung place isn't always on the agenda for most governments.
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  16. @Zana Ghazal, This would work assuming the vast majority of people who live in those areas want "autonomy." Last elections more Kurds voted for the AKP than voted for the Kurdish parties. Most Kurds don't see it in their interests to build a nation and an economy from scratch. I'm also not sure if they're going to allow fringe elements to push them toward that end. People aren't stupid, they've what the road to ethnic politics leads to in places like Syria and Iraq.
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  17. @AnarchoAmericium, Nations are slowly starting to wake up about the negative impact of following the globalists in everything they order you to do. Turkey isn't the only one. Hungary and Poland are also showing signs of discontent with the globalists and their policies. The issue isn't one of partnership or lack there of, the issue is about the independence of nation states and the desire of their leaders to do what is best for the electorate. We've seen many nations here in the west where the governments have lost sight of that.
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  18. I'd imagine your comment will age worse than both.
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  19.  @mistergeopolitics4456  Having Militias in random places makes you a player in regional matters, it doesn't make you a hegemon. You claiming Turkey is subservient to America also proves my point, I said if "America wasn't in the region." Also does being anti American make you a better candidate to be a hegemon? Is that your point when you talk about Iran not being subservient to the United States? If that is your contention do you also believe Cuba would be a Hegemon in their region if America some how went away because they're at odds with the United States? Obviously not because Mexico (who is subservient to the US) would steamroll Cuba. Also what does being a threat to the EU and United States have to do with being a hegemon in your region if major powers left? I'm also curious why you use the term the "west" when talking about the strength of nations. If you take the United States out of the equation, the rest of the western nation are far too weak to project power that far from their shores. The EU is also a joke when it comes to projecting power. Aside from misguided talking points, you haven't been able to debunk my original premise.
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  20. He is probably too old to wait them out and run again. But lets say by some miracle he is able to stay healthy and sharp for that long, your scenario will probably come to fruition if the people don't see improvements.
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  21. @Pony4Koma, As many times as they've tripped over themselves in this process I'd imagine they've also made far too many gains to assume they're merely "throwing dice."
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  22.  @cjbarrow46  Considering the leaps and bounds at which they've grown in the past 10 years, shows their ambitions have aged nothing like milk. It's still a messed up country with a boatload of problems but they're in a far better position today than they've been at any point in the past 80 years. In many ways outstripping and outpacing their original ambitions. You won't find one person, even detractors of that nation claiming their influence hasn't risen exponentially in the past decade or two.
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  23. @Matt Savigny, there is also a possibility they can be a regional hegemon without even doing anything. If Russia and America for one reason or another pull out of that region completely, Turkey automatically becomes the regional hegemon. There is no other nation in that region that can slow this down. Only an outside superpower can keep the current balances where they are. So Turkey being a hegemon isn't really up to Turkey, it's more so up to what happens in Russia and America in the next 70 years.
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  24. @El Turco, Unless you have a way to pick up your land mass and move it somewhere else. You really don't have a choice in the matter. You must have relations with your neighbors to the south.
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  25.  @elturco2421  The video makes sense, even if you believe there are issues which you think he should or shouldn't have raised. I'm well aware of the economy in your country since I've been living half the year in your country for almost 20 years. I'm also well aware of the 10 million genetically damaged inbred migrants running around Turkey creating chaos as well. Those two things not being mentioned doesn't mean the video "doesn't make sense." The one thing I've realized about you Turks living among you for so long is that sometimes you get so emotional about something you tend to lose all logic and reason. Which seems to have struck you this time. Yani kisacasi, bazi huyulariniz ayni Arablar gibi. Mesela senin ukarda yazdiklarinin mantigi.
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  26.  @armerholzhacker7758  What part of his post was a lie?
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  27.  @katerinamakedoniaGreece  I'd imagine Albanian can say the same thing about Greece no? lol
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  28.  Indian Streetshietters  Energy dependence. If they solve that, they'll skyrocket. If they don't, they'll continue to sink.
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  29. No one ruled the world in those days, not enough technology to get around the entire globe and project power. The Turks dominated a huge portion of their region for 600 years, not the world. Only one nation has ever come close to ruling the world, that was the United States.
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  30. @Kaye Kaye, I have no horse in this race nor do I really have an opinion on 99% of what you said. But the moment you used the words Greece and military supremacy I started laughing. lol
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  31.  @Aydemir18  I'm not completely ignorant about Turkey, I've been doing business there and living there part time since the late 1990s. I'm no fan of your president Erdogan and you could make a laundry list of things he has done which hurt the country. However this argument that the nation is no longer secular is pretty ridiculous. The country is still secular, it has a secular constitution and it has secular laws. So why would Kilicdaroglu defend something which isn't under threat? No wonder Erdogan keeps winning elections. The opposite comes up with the most insane and ridiculous ways to attack him, when there are obvious ways to attack him which are rational and which are ignored.
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  32.  @melanieenmats  You do realize this guy actually wins elections right? Regardless of what I may think of him, or what you may think of him I'd imagine it's the Turks who will decide who will and won't lead them. Your fetish of wanting to "kick out" democratically elected leaders of other nations seems problematic.
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  33.  @mistergeopolitics4456  Iran was impossible to invade due to their geography. Not much has changed since then. However they aren't nearly strong enough to be a regional hegemon in this day and age.
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  34. Odd because if you ask the Turks Greece belongs to Turkey. Good luck solving that riddle.
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  35. No dude.
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  36.  @nextgeneration8309  If most Turks felt that way the AKP with it's anti Europe policy wouldn't have been getting so many votes the past 10 years.
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  37.  @numdd4717  I don't think you seem to grasp what it takes to be a "superpower." Everything points to the fact Turkey will be an extremely powerful regional hegemon.
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  38.  @kerimtheturk  I'm indifferent. I know Turkey well and it's nice to see them progressing, especially when you consider how they've been treated by the west since the 1800s. You guys simply aren't understanding the point I'm trying to make.
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  39. Yes the entire planet is afraid of those mighty Serbs, Greeks and Bulgarians lol
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  40. @Dan Chang, Turkey has been a "regional power" for a very long time, even at their weakest. What they're trying to do is become a regional hegemon.
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  41.  @nicolaskrinis7614  You do realize you sound like Hitler talking about Poland right?
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  42. @Filiz but a lot of you act like Arabs. Why is that? lol Your post being a prime example.
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  43.  @deprogramm  They've had many military coups. But between said coups they were always in charge. They perform a coup when the civilian authority challenges it's authority. In the 50s their authority wasn't challenged hence no coup. You won't find one historian worth their salt who will claim they were anything other a nation under authoritarian military rule in the 1950s. I understand you have an axe to grind and you're more than welcome to state your case on that front. What you can't do is make completely false claims like Turkey had a better democracy in the 1950s. Facts>Your emotions.
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  44. @Envinyatar, people throw around that word superpower easily. Turkey won't be a superpower. Turkey is however a regional power on its' way to being a regional hegemon. Nor do I think some short term currency issues is going to stop that process.
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  45.  @matikhorasani3842  I didn't realize you can master the macro economics of a nation by "visiting it" Interesting indeed. Why not actually look at what percentage of the GDP tourism accounts for and how much of a tend foreign direct investment makes in their economy. I'd imagine hard facts and numbers would build a better case than some irrational inbred going there to "look around" to figure it all out.
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  46.  @memezmemez5176  You must understand the globalist narrative doesn't really care what you a "Kurd" actually thinks. They'll continue to speak for you and pretend you're after things you actually aren't. That is how fake news is spread and perceptions are made.
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  47. @osama Foda, Egypt and Israel even if they teamed up wouldn't stand a chance of threatening Turkey militarily. Egypt has a joke of a military and as good as Israel's military is, it's an efficient military which wasn't built to project hardpower that far from it's shores. Israel doesn't even have the logistics to send troops to Turkish shores. It's simply not something they feel the need to have. By the same token, just like Egypt and Israel cannot invade Turkey, Turkey cannot invade Egypt and Israel either. Very few nations have the military logistics to fight wars that far from it's shores.
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  48.  @BOKAJAN1997  I have an Armenian neighbor here, an older gentleman who's extremely wise and intelligent. I remember having a conversation with him about this around 2012. I kept asking him why Armenia won't accept the the deal the Azeris are offering. It was obvious to anyone reading news about the region how much money the Azeris were dumping into their military and it was only a matter of time until they got fed up with Armenia not willing to negotiate and attack. His response was essentially that Armenia will not give up an inch of land and how they act emotionally and don't think through what they've been offered. Rarely do you ever see any country on this planet make the type of geo strategic mistakes this country is making over and over again. It is almost like a sort of mass delusion you rarely see. You can't have this irrational mindset and survive for very long.
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  49. I agree that staying out of a sinking ship like the EU is a good idea. But I'm not sure what "thrive as a secular state" actually means. That country has been secular since 1923 and they haven't exactly thrived. What do you think will change? The country has serious structural problems that can't simply be solved regardless if they're secular or not secular.
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  50.  @mistergeopolitics4456  Again with more rhetoric that amounts to nothing. Yes Turkey's economy is trash and yes Iran's economy is trash. But you do realize there are degrees to things no? If I have a cold and you have the full blown cancer can we really just say " oh we're both sick and equal in our misery." Obviously not, thing shave proportion. I don't think you're trying to be rational here, you seem to have a view of things and are trying to fit square pegs into round holes. When you see people making points you can't logically counter, screaming that what they're saying is nonsense is in itself nonsensical.
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