Would be terrorist dictator Erdogan looks to cause problems now, because he's in trouble.

He’s trashed Turkey’s economy. He’s locked up all opposition. He’s playing a deadly game standing between East and West. Now President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on the brink of triggering a war to boost his re-election chances.

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Burning a flag could be quite a problem but I do not think that Erdogan could be any terrorist, so here only my opinion.

Burning a flag could be quite a problem but I do not think that Erdogan could be any terrorist, so here only my opinion.

His trying to eradicate the Kurdish people makes him so in my books just for starters. Hobbling other countries from joining NATO only adds to that.

Anyhow a Global report highlights link between corruption, violence.

The actual index chart can be found here, https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022/.

Got a little surprise today when Croatia offered support for the annexed peninsula of Crimea, here by Russia.

At first I thought Putin could be an Imperialist, stemming from the fact or attempt of being a democrat or capitalist, but perhaps not working.

I think he blames West for inefficiency when it could be meeting up at the river Elbe, but later was offered access to western Berlin.

That of war against Hitler-Germany should be a declared one of such, but here I do not see the history behind for any such making, at least from the United States.

An occupation could be aggression, but perhaps not only a secret brigade to resist, so here perhaps poverty instead.

The other could be giving a Democracy an excuse for what it could be doing.

Anyway, I forgot the convoys, making for a rich man.

Meanwhile in another country that's going backwards into barbarism with the help of others.

Rights groups say Myanmar military is increasing air attacks as Russia and China provide planes.

Isn't a country's military suppose to protect its nation from external harm? So that must mean that they can only be terrorist.

Myanmar junta extends emergency as 'silent protest' marks anniversary and US seeks to limit Russian arms.

His trying to eradicate the Kurdish people makes him so in my books just for starters. Hobbling other countries from joining NATO only adds to that.

It was the British and the French who drawed the border lines in the Middle East, created new states like Syria, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. And somehow they forgot to give the Kurds an own state territory. There may have been good reasons for this in the past. But there are a lot of such historic problems in the Middle East which are almost impossible to solve today. Tragic.

And on Sweden's and Finland's accession to NATO... I suspect that until the process is completed, there's some temporary, secret treaty guaranteeing assistance by the U.S. alone. Since decades Finland and Sweden adopt NATO standards, military equipment is NATO compatible and so on. They perform joint maneuvers. And Russia knows. So there is no hurry. The last Swedish PM to advocate for neutral equidistance between NATO and USSR was Olof Palme (probably because of this assassinated in 1988). And the Finns, armed to the teeth, a people of amateur hunters, have had their experiences with Russia in the past. They don't need NATO for deterrence. I think the Americans already tightened the thumbscrews on Erdogan (don't forget the Budapest guy). They do it patiently, outside the public, admitting Erdogan to play the angry bull terrier for the time he needs. But eventually patience will wear off. Then it will be: you want something from us, then do that first.

Someone (U.S.?, British?) realized after 1945 that in the long run Turkey was too weak to stop Russia's expansion into the Mediterranean. That's why they're in NATO and that's why we in Europe have to endure Erdogan's insults and dirty games. That's why millions of Turkish migrants have special rights in Germany (e.g. unlimited residence permit of Turkish people born in Germany, without the need to adopt German citizenship). There are social insurance contracts for family members back in Turkey in German law. And Turkey is (in theory) an EU accession candidate.

Isn't a country's military suppose to protect its nation from external harm? So that must mean that they can only be terrorist.
Myanmar junta extends emergency as 'silent protest' marks anniversary and US seeks to limit Russian arms.

Is a military dictatorship a country for which one can make such assumptions? I don't think so. It's just a "territory" ruled by a grotesque junta enacting a pseudo-democracy in which even the democratically elected majority in parliament subsequently has less voting weight than the military representatives. There are guaranteed parliamentary seats for the military. That makes a mockery of principles of democracy. Unfortunately, such regimes are guaranteed to last forever, since some United Nations Security Council members feel they have to support such "countries". Why? Because it's a pseudo-sovereign colony of China which enables the Chinese (military) access to the Indian Ocean. The old geostrategic game of empires is played again in Europe and in Asia... And small nations which get in the path of the big elephants better prepare some roads for them to miminize damage.

To answer the question in the tread's topic: Peace is the absence of war. War is prevented by sufficient military power to deter aggressors. If peace lasts too long, people begin to forget ancient wisdom.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

He missed out on his F-35's through his own stupidity so I wonder if this will get him to pull his head in.

Lawmakers urge Biden to delay F-16 sales to Turkey over Sweden, Finland NATO bid.

Erdogan may not be a problem for much longer with elections due in June.

As Turkey earthquakes death toll grows, so does anger at government.

The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been accused of contributing to the devastation caused by last month’s earthquakes by undermining long-established construction safeguards, which allegedly helped to pave the way for the disaster that unfolded.

The death toll in the massive Feb. 6 earthquakes stands at more than 45,000, according to Turkey’s management agency, making it the worst national disaster in a century. Some 214,000 buildings containing 608,000 apartments either collapsed or suffered heavy damage, Erdogan said, as quoted by the state-run Anadolu news agency.

The tragedy has brought to light decades-old urbanistic mismanagement and placed the ruling AK Party under intense pressure.

“The most important reason why this disaster caused such great destruction is the government not showing the will to bring the fragile building stock up to safety standards,” said Gencay Serter, the president of the Chamber of Urban Planners, a powerful association that has clashed with Erdogan and the AK Party in the past.....

Those military terrorists who can only find their own civilians to attack is at it again. :-(

Myanmar army accused of killing 17 people in two villages.

Myanmar's terrorist junta has been at it yet again. :-(

At least 22 people killed in suspected massacre at Myanmar monastery, junta blames resistance groups.

At least 22 people were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor's post-mortem report, in what opponents of military rule say was a massacre of civilians conducted by the army.

A spokesman for Myanmar's junta, which staged a coup two years ago to depose the elected government, said its soldiers had been involved in clashes with rebel fighters in the Pinlaung region of southern Shan state but had not harmed any civilians.

Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) and another rebel group entered the village of Nan Neint after government forces arrived to provide security with a local people's militia....

More disgustingly sick actions of Myanmar's terrorist junta have been uncovered. :-(

Myanmar junta accused of planting weapons on corpses to cover up massacre of civilians in Nan Neint.

Myanmar's ruling junta has been accused of attempting to cover up the massacre of at least 22 villagers, staging photos with weapons planted on corpses and claiming the dead were resistance fighters....

As people die and starve Myanmar junta throws huge military parade days after new US sanctions.

The Senior General Terrorist has spoken.

Myanmar junta chief vows to crush resistance forces in rare speech.

Yes, him and his murderous mob need a bit of crushing.

Myanmar junta dissolves Suu Kyi's party as election deadline passes.

The indiscriminate killing continues as At least 50 people killed as Myanmar military attacks rebel gathering in air strikes. :-(

Oh dear, it just never ends and Wagner is reported to be involved there as well.

Sudan has descended into chaos with civilians killed, a Presidential palace reportedly stormed and a passenger plane hit by gunfire.

We now know why Erdogan got so mad at being ignored recently by a top U.S. foreign policy aide according to this report.

Hope for Major U.S.-Turkey F-16 Deal If Erdogan Defeated.