Posted on 04/29/2024 6:03:51 PM PDT by BeauBo
I’m not saying it will be run like the first Ottoman Empire, think of it more as a coalition.
Turkey is the one Islamic State that can unite the Muslim world. Iran cannot do it, Saudi Arabia cannot do, nor any other Arab country.
And again, the biggest threat is the support it will get from European Muslims, who will be Fifth Columnists in their host countries.
Hogwash.🙄🙄
Actually, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have in fact united the Arabs that matter.
Presently, Erdogan led Turkey is in fact a loser.
Not saying it will be Erdogan neither, but he’s setting the table for it.
Again, why do you think I’m trying to convince you to move to Russia? And if you’re really not considering such, why do you give a crap as to what happens there?
No one wants to visit you in your base in Russia.
“t Russia keeps their word.”
You gotta be kidding.
I agree with you. But “I” in BRIC(S) is for India.
BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The term was initially created as BRIC (without South Africa in 2010).
BRICSis first and foremose an economic organization,
but there is the implication that economic power will bring political power. Leaders from BRICS countries regularly attended summits together and acte in concert with each others’ interests.
2024 is the 16th year of this group meeting annually. 36 countries have applied to join the BRICS alliance this year in 2024. All 36 countries have formally submitted their expression of interest to join. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates bring it to 10 members.
Currently, Brics members rely on the USD but this is changing and not really a threat to the US.
GDP is a relative measurement. If you compare the actual costs comparable items may cost up to 75% in Russia.
How much does Russia spend for one soldier vs Ukraine, or the price of an artillery round? Some sources cited 155mm rounds went each one from 2,000 to 4,000 to 8,000 USD. Is it any wonder NATO and 40 nations spend more in Ukraine than Russian GDP, but Russia is killing them.
When China can shop an EV to the US for under 8,000 USD but it could sell it for 24,000 USD, GDP is not a realistic measurement.
The USD is worth 59 cents compared to when Biden was elected....
Got it...
I am not defending Putin or Russia.
We have been lied to for years about Ukraine.
Their leadership is worse (more corrupt) than even Russia.
And we are financing the Ukraine.
nutter
The collapse of the Ukrainian front lines has got them amping up the foaming propaganda...
“nutter”
Facts are stubborn things.
Denying the reality of objective facts, is itself kind of psychotic.
Funded programs are in place to provide Ukrainian forces with Millions of drones this year.
The West has not only much better fighter aircraft, but many times as many as Russia. Unlike Russia, the West is still producing them at a high rate.
Over 4,600 F-16s were produced, and the 1,000th F-35 rolled off the production line this January to replace them, so hundreds have been recently removed from operational status, and are easily available for Ukraine when needed, without touching NATO’s operational Air Forces. Additionally of course, NATO is also chock full of Typhoons, Eurofighters, Grippens, Harriers, etc..
In the more than 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia has only managed to produce about 300 multi-role (Fighter/bomber) jets for its military (Su-30/34/35s). Despite Russia’s significant losses over the last two years, it has not yet gone up against even old Vietnam era NATO aircraft - just a small number of Soviet era Warsaw Pact left overs.
“Their leadership is worse (more corrupt) than even Russia.”
I don’t believe that is true.
Objectively, Ukraine, like other former Soviet republics, had deeply ingrained corrupt practices.
I agree that many other former Warsaw Pact countries or former Soviet republics had been much more successful than Ukraine, in reducing corruption, and that Ukraine scored high on International measures of corruption - but not nearly as bad as Russia itself, which has become a fully mafia- dominated Government and society, with no turnover of political power.
Not only has Ukraine had competing political parties democratically change power and prosecute each others corruption over many years, but the EU has been effectively imposing wide-ranging anti-corruption structural reforms, as a pre-requisite for membership. The Ukrainian Rada has enacted the full suite of laws “recommended” by the EU, and has reduced their Government corruption to the level formally required to begin their EU Accession talks. That is a high standard, compared to global norms.
Anti-corruption reforms have been imposed as a requirement for aid, as well as for joining the EU. International investigators have fairly free reign in Ukraine, and high profile oligarchs and politicians have been removed, and in many cases prosecuted. Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov was dismissed for not effectively punishing corrupt Deputy Defense Ministers, when they were uncovered. He was replaced by the highest profile anti-corruption house cleaner in the Ukrainian Government, Rustem Umerov, who has a list of corruption convictions of his subordinates as long as his arm.
Ukraine has been going through an intense period of anti-corruption reform, and especially in the last year, has instituted a full suite of International best practices to reduce corruption into law.
And that's a fact - a VERY stubborn fact.
“(Ukrainian) leadership is worse (more corrupt) than even Russia.”
I would also point out, that much of the corruption in Ukraine was the work of Russian Government and Russian mafia, operating in Ukraine.
For example the famously corrupt Burisma Holdings, which paid exorbitant retainers to Hunter Biden as a “Board Member” (in absentia), and on whose behalf Joe Biden intervened to have the prosecutor investigating Burisma corruption fired, was in fact run by a Putin crony oligarch, Mykola Zlochevsky.
The purging of Russian associations alone has greatly reduced corruption in Ukraine, because of the fundamentally corrupt nature of Russian big business under Putin.
You throw baseless insults, but have no facts or logic to disguise your fundamental loyalty to Putin and Russia, and disloyalty to America.
Zelensky is fair haired child of Klaus Schwab and the WEF.
I am not saying Ukraine is like Russia, but both are corrupt.
We are in a mess with our NATO allies and the Globalists.
They are sinking the USA by plan.
Not sure how this one plays out.
“Boy, the nutters are really loose on this thread. The collapse of the Ukrainian front lines has got them amping up the foaming propaganda...”
Assuming Biden loses, they’ll be deactivated (again) quite soon. Annoying having them here, but JR gets the final call.
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