(March 16, 2023 at 4:51 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The first thing I noticed was that it was a military aid operation. You generally want to get the members of another country's army out of your country asap - yes, even the doctors, they don't exactly come alone. It's weird given the circumstances, I suppose, but probably more to do with the politics of a foreign military delivering humanitarian aid on your soil than whether or not they're pagans. They getting closer to a final official toll?
- 56,000 but nothing is working the way it used to. So I would say 100,000 but of course I don’t know. I just happen to know people who describe the situation in the south-east as “still very difficult”. We live in a country in which we are now calling the leader of the main opposition party as “Mr. President”. That’s how bad it is

The E.U. + Germany is pledging us help. By the way I kind of admire this Mrs. Ursula von der Leyen. For me she is second only to Mrs. Angela Merkel. Although I don’t Agree with everything they do I simply like this kind of both rational + human way of doing politics.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-eas...023-03-20/
But my point is: The Election in Turkey is set to happen in May 14th. The opposition is very likely to win (If we don’t you might as well forget about us for the next few decades to come). So People should know that whatever loan is given in extra to this government, we’re the ones who will have to start paying it back after May the 14th. (That’s just my personal point on that. I wanted to mention this somehow

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