Turkey's president confirms he is blocking Finland and Sweden from joining NATO after hinting he wants concessions first
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "We have told allies that we will say no to Finland and Sweden's NATO membership."
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The whole nation from the Religious Leadership on down is just as demented and as sick as Putin.
There are concerns in Ukraine about the time required for Patriot's integration into the air defence system and about the compatibility.I hope you're right about this.
I think the Patriots. if they're forthcoming (and I've read a couple of reports they are) will be backfill for NATO allies forwarding their own S-300 systems, given the training curve. Better to give the Ukrainians systems they can use immediately and backfill the equipment for donor nations where training can happen in a longer timespan, rather than expect Ukrainian missileers to learn OJT an entirely new system in combat.
And railways aren't the only way to insert weaponry into Ukraine -- road-nets are harder to interrupt and easier to repair.
Consider them as people sick or heavily addicted to the powerful drugs. This is how I think about relatives (friends, ex-colleagues, etc.) in Russian Federation. No arguments anymore, just a hope for their recovery... some sunny day.You're better than this. You know that there are many Russians who are against this war but cannot speak up for fear of imprisonment or worse. Writing the whole nation off is silly at best and malignant at worst.
Who knows what the future brings in regards to this minor border dispute?Given their border disputes that one is very unlikely.
Consider them as people sick or heavily addicted to the powerful drugs. This is how I think about relatives (friends, ex-colleagues, etc.) in Russian Federation. No arguments anymore, just a hope for their recovery... some sunny day.
You're better than this. You know that there are many Russians who are against this war but cannot speak up for fear of imprisonment or worse. Writing the whole nation off is silly at best and malignant at worst.
I agree on everything except for the communist part. Communism requires a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common or social ownership (usually state ownership) of all property, including the means of production. He is only a believer on the authoritarian methods of soviet communism and the past greatness of the Soviet union/Russian Empire while allowing free market economy, and of course his oligarch friends. Which basically makes him a Fascist or a Nazi.
I've started to just ignore the posts. Not worth responding to.
I hear you, I'm just built in such a manner that I think malignant generalizations should not be allowed to go unanswered. I won't get into any mudwrestling, but any time I see millions of people lumped together and written off, it rankles.
I don't disagree with you. These malignant generalizations are one of the reasons the political climate in the US is so terrible at the moment.
I hear you, I'm just built in such a manner that I think malignant generalizations should not be allowed to go unanswered. I won't get into any mudwrestling, but any time I see millions of people lumped together and written off, it rankles.
I don't disagree with you. These malignant generalizations are one of the reasons the political climate in the US is so terrible at the moment.
The things one learns here.Hmm… too close to the Canadian name.
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The very definition of totalitarianism, and the bridge that connects far left communism to far right fascism, changing the political spectrum into a circular continuum.From where I sit, the main hangover from Communism in modern Russia is the concept that the people are there to sustain the state, with the state being the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.