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This is my fave:
Paul Gruber, Warehouse Manager “America is not a racist country, but a federation of racist states.”
This is my fave:
Paul Gruber, Warehouse Manager “America is not a racist country, but a federation of racist states.”
This is the sale to Greece to make them less mad. The sale to Turkey was a while ago.
The despots are currently extracting their pound of flesh for Sweden.
It was the price of getting Finland Sweden into NATO unfortunately.
The F16/ to turkey was quid pro quo for Turkey to let Finland Sweden into nato. Which of course made the Greeks unhappy, so we sold them weapons so they weren’t unhappy and could defend against Turkish aggression. It also makes them a more capable ally.
Yes - Russia says they need to conduct their special military operation to rid Ukraine of Nazis (that don’t exist in any real quantity or position of power) and Nazis all over the world think “Fuck yeah, there are Nazis in Ukraine, we should help them!”. Then they find out that the Ukrainians aren’t Nazis, and the actual Nazis from the rest of the world don’t want to play anymore.
Or they finally realized the Russian propaganda was Russian propaganda and the Ukrainians aren’t actually nazis? And that made the real Nazis not want to support them anymore?
Well, you see, the 2,000lb bomb was heavy and the plane was tired of carrying it.
Nobody expected it because turkey is governed by a tyrant who sucks.
And he won’t do anything until he gets his pound of flesh whatever it may be. Just like with the Sweden and Finland joining NATO.
That’s semantics - you aren’t a lawyer obviously. Nor, I imagine have you actually read the convention.
Around February 27–28, Turkey refused permission for three out of four Russian warships to enter the Black Sea as their home base was not on the Black Sea.
Surely these two new ships home base is in fact the Black Sea.
Really? If you buy a house, the closing happens at the bank, then you can’t return to your home?
Of course you can.
Ships have a home port, as defined by the owner of the ship. If a ship is sold, it would typically get a new home port, owned by the new owner.
All of Ukraine’s ports are in the Black Sea. Hence any ship owned by Ukraine not currently in the Black Sea is sailing back to port.
Why is that hard to understand?
Russia has several deep water ports outside of the Black Sea. It’s a slightly different ballgame, wouldn’t you agree?
The Montreux Convention does not prevent ships from returning to their ports. Which is presumably exactly what ships they acquired are doing. Returning to their new port.
How does “maybe an external spy agency should stop spying” have 6 upvotes?
Is your opinion that no government should spy on any other government?
On the other hand you have a strongman-on-his-way-to-dictator telling you that some people are enemies of the state and you’re just believing it as a surface truth.
Who wants to bet 100% of these people are anti-Erdogan?
That’s just another biased take that selectively chooses a different narrative.
Read at least several books from different perspectives and make up your own mind.
I didn’t realize I was in c/thesatire
Oh, I thought it was the place for everything that wasn’t The Onion.
I think this belongs in c/nottheonion.
The difference between Hebrew and Latin was that only the Catholic clergy and intellectuals wrote in Latin.
The average Jewish kid could read and write in hebrew. Even if it wasn’t spoken.
Even in Morocco, the dialects spoken were often written with Hebrew characters - including a dialect of Arabic written with Hebrew characters.
They also would have more than a passing knowledge of Hebrew, obviously.
Oh, huh - thanks for the source and being correct!
What did we sell them last time?