(November 13, 2022 at 7:49 am)Leonardo17 Wrote:(November 11, 2022 at 8:54 pm)Belacqua Wrote: According to Wikipedia, Russia has 5,977 nuclear warheads. And of course modern ones are more powerful than the ones they had during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and...estruction
Remember that Kennedy convinced Russia to stand down by standing down US missiles in Turkey. The USSR didn't want enemy missiles so close, just as the USA didn't want them in Cuba.
Nearby nukes are considered a provocation. Fortunately, both Sweden and Finland have announced that even if they join NATO they will not accept nukes being based in their countries.
https://uk.style.yahoo.com/sweden-spurn-...v4BH0FC0as
I’m not going to discuss the content of this message. Instead I’m going to show you the last declarations that were made by his excellency of the Bosphorus:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-seeks-...05508.html
The respectable gentleman just said that: “The West, and especially the U.S., is attacking Russia seemingly endlessly,” and that “We are working on how to create a peace corridor here, like we had the grain corridor. We think the best way for this is a path from dialogue to peace”
And here is another link on the credulity of this second declaration:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkish-prose...05693.html
The most renowned person just passed an unconstitutional “Disinformation Law” that leave huge rooms of maneuver of any court to make totally arbitrary decisions on persons who are taken to court because of this new legislation. All legal experts are affirming that this “Law” isn’t really a law that bears the typical characteristics of an ordinary law in any type of real jurisdiction. It is a technical error all by itself. And now the most pious man among the most pious men is trying to use it against someone called Ekrem Imamoglu who is the Major of Istanbul and a potential rival to the AK Party in the general election of July (which is said to be another desperate attempt by the “ruler” to show his might to the public, which is not likely to works because it is likely to mobilize even more people against his ideology).
I just shared these messages so that you know that I know how authoritarian leaders operate and how they use the tool of false information, lies, disinformation, false moves and all types of deception by every mean that is available to them in order to be able to fool the entire population (themselves included) to impose their own twisted ideology.
And here is the third stupidity in one day:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/erdogan-says-...37904.html
The one with the most beautiful moustache on earth just said:
“Turkey's effort to complete its purchase of F-16 jets would be "much easier" if Republicans end up controlling the U.S. Senate,”
Reality: Turkey was part of the F-35 next generation fighter jet program and some vital components of these planes were produced in this country. But the one who looks so fine bought outdated S-300 missile defense systems from Russia (who are not even being used because they are not even compatible with an army with NATO standards like the Turkish Army). The S-300 will not be used anytime soon and are just sitting in a military depot somewhere.
For this we were kicked out of the F-35 program. Our Airforce will be even weaker than several Middle-eastern countries like Egypt who are acquiring French Mirage fighter jets. And now he is begging the US for F-16’s who will become obsolete in 10-20 years.
So when I say “I know how such systems or such people operate” believe me, I do.
I’m not sure Erdogan’s prospective peace talks will go anywhere. Ukraine wants Russia to vacate all occupied territory before there’s any discussion of peace. Russia says this condition is a non-starter.
Boru
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