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You quoted me a week later What bias have I shown, please elaborate? No I become hostile when people want to be passive aggressive instead of actually discussing things, I play tit for tat and those who are used to having their snide comments ignored can't handle it. Like right now, when...

Nor did I say they were. They definitely have a republican form of government though and their head of state is elected democratically I remember that Erdogan was elected to reign in a rogue military from which the term "deep state" was popularized in political spheres. Maybe you forgot about...

People are confusing hard negotiating tactics with support. Turkey has been one of our most consistent anti-Russian allies for fifty years, yes they bluffed hard over the last two years but also they consider the Kurds a serious threat to their territory and we've been arming these people and...

You're just repeating talking points you've heard from the US intelligence community who are mad that Erogan played them and Russia against each other and have been doing so for the past decade. Idiotic memes and baseless talking points aren't proof of anything, Turkey elects its leaders and...

Turkey is not a dictatorship, more importantly it's the largest and best equipped military in the middle east and they are vital for containing Russia. Where are you getting this from? The left absolutely hates Turkey so this seems like a baseless spiel to me

Again, its a regularly used figure of speech which implies total destruction of the current government. You and he are being pedantic and arguing semantics.

It's a figure of speech. Iran, as a plateau populated by Persians, would still exist. The current incarnation of Iran would not.

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False. Prussia was a convenient name chosen by the Electors of Brandenburg only because that (very small) territory was outside of the HRE so they could be Kings "in" Prussia. All of that land in Poland you're referring to was only part of it for a less than a century when it unified Germany...

Cringe wilsonian mindset Me personally I just hate Euros, they think they're better because we pay for their defense so they can spend all their cash on welfare states. Don't know of any other vassal states in history that had such an attitude. They've also been pretty shit "allies" all...

You can't trust him on anything foreign either so not sure what he's good at tbh.

Option C isn't sustainable in the long run. Iraq is not a real nation with cohesion and defensible borders meanwhile Iran is a natural hegemon in the middle east, that's why they've ruled the place on and off for thousands of years. They will likely regain that position so long as Iran exists...

But you posted a (wrong) chart about opioid deaths only? So you've clearly changed just based on the image you provided.

Because from a quick google it doesn't look like this is true of opioid deaths (54/100000 for russian men from alcohol, 34/100000 for opioid deaths in the US.) If it's true of all drugs okay, but that includes e.g. alcohol so you're comparing a totality against a subset and only doing so once...

It would be crazy, but it doesn't it says opioid deaths

Again is your point that Iran can provide more material than the US? You seem to not be understanding you replied to a comment saying at least the US can fight, so it follows you must be trying to prove Iran can fight better than the US but in terms of both combat capability and material...

Maybe, but you're responding to a comment that was specifically about being able to fight. The US can also supply other countries with the fuel and weapons to make war, across oceans as we see in Ukraine, so I'm not sure you've proven anything with the write up about Iran being able to do so...

This has nothing to do with being able to fight. Iran played the game adequately by swooping in as the US pulled back after 2011 and filing that power vacuum.

Well we have a stupid government, if we weren't so far ahead and blessed with amazing institutions and geography we'd be fucked by now

Unless I'm missing something obvious, the jones act enforces carrying of cargo on US built ships. If anything it's probably the reason we have any capacity left at all. If that was gone jackass elites would have outsourced all cargo shipping to foreigners years ago