Didn't he start up the civil war against the kurds again last time they tried this were he was expected to lose?

Romania now is the time to send troops in before the disgusting Russians expand further

Is there anything that doesn't provoke Russia? How is Ukraine helping Moldova to end the Russian invasion of Moldova a bad thing?

Mid 2022 is nearly a year ago! The Ukrainian grain deal and the recent earthquakes cemented his image as a powerful statesman.

Putin and Erdogan should never be underestimated! No matter what they do or say, no matter how suicidal their policies might be, they are practically worshipped by the vast majority of their population. Talk to the average Turk in Germany and you'd think Erdoğan is some kind of demigod.

The opposition lacks a credible leader that could pose a realistic threat to Erdoğan's re-election.

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Iran has had the capability to build a bomb for at least 20 years. If they were trying to build one, they'd already have an arsenal full of them.

• Iran has mastered the fuel cycle. They have advanced centrifuges and thus enriching uranium to weapons grade is trivial for them. The bigger question is why haven't they?
• Iran has missiles capable of carrying a miniaturized nuclear warhead, yet they have only conventional warheads in their arsenal.
• Iran is believed to have conducted a number of implosion tests pre-2003. This would indicate they have enough knowledge for a trigger device.

Iran is using the threat of building a bomb as a tool for negotiations. Note how when the JCPOA was in effect Iran didn't enrich above 19.75%. Then once the US abandoned the agreement and forced the EU into non-compliance Iran cranked the purity up to 60+%. Now we're at 84%. Why would Iran keep increasing the purity while simultaneously letting everyone know? Because it's about securing a new deal.

However, it's also a warning that if anyone attacks Iran, they will purse a bomb and have one in less than 6 months.

How are they even going to get to transnistria?

No no, it’s a great idea to let a country run by religious zealots who constantly call for the destruction of Israel and kill their own citizens access to nuclear weapons.

Just perfect.

It's an area roughly 3.428 hours by 2.5 hours of 250km/h driving on the Autobahn.

Worked out fine for Mao Zedong

If you control the media you can literally just tell your people that you've saved them, and they'll buy it hook line and sinker.

China exported food every year of the great famine, people here still spout off about how wonderful a hero Mao was, especially those old enough to have suffered through the famine. Younger people have a more nuanced view but even then are generally supportive.

Let's do the Royal Penguin happy dance.

It’s a political decision not a technical challenge that is the reason they do not have a functional weapon. If they decided today to manufacture one, it would take approximately 5 days for them to accumulate the required mass of HEU needed for a weapon and approximately 3 to 6 months for them to fashion the core into a deliverable weapon. Than probably another 6 months to miniaturize it into a warhead that could be usable on a ballistic missile for delivery

It should be noted that even though the article is saying they reached 84% purity it’s being slightly manipulative as Iran did not accumulate 84% enriched uranium which would be the real issue if they did. They have still not gone above 60% accumulated

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Love to see this stuff.

As a German, I don't understand this Unit. Could you please convert it to Multiples of the Saarland, Fußballfelder or Bierkästen?

Why shouldn’t a sovereign state create nuclear weapons to deter foreign invaders?

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Realistically speaking, how much longer will it take until they have nuclear weapons ready? Anyone who has some expertise in the subject?

Ah yeah. A country that is too busy trying to fight and push an invading army out of its Eastern flank can also manage to send said army to the west to invade a neighbouring country too, both of which happen to see their future as more aligned with the EU. Makes total sense 🙄 Wars are hard enough to fight, let alone on multiple fronts.

You look at Transistria or Transdniestria (or whatever it wants to call itself) and the only logical conclusion is it being corrupt. The one guy in charge was born in Russia (no doubt then he'd be pro-Russia).

Everything is provied by Sherriff, a company founded by an ex-KGB member, that company is pretty much the only company in existence there. It has a monopoly in a bunch of sectors. Putin sees it as a chance to create another Belarus.

There's a clip going around on Twitter of an allegedly 'Moldovian' crowd chanting 'Ruzziya' which is misrepresenative as all Russian propagandists are. As far as I'm aware, most of Moldova is on the side of Ukraine, while the government there is trying to deal with subversive attempts by Russia to destabilise the country. This is also concurrent with some other factions there anyway that would like to see Moldova also unify with Romania (which by default would also pull it into the EU and NATO).

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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 67%. (I'm a bot)

> The Ministry of Defence of Russia has published a statement about the Ukrainian government supposedly preparing provocations against the non-recognised Transnistria region.

> The Russian Ministry has declared that Ukraine is planning to use a staged offensive of Russian forces from the territory of Transnistria as "a reason for invasion".

> Russian President Vladimir Putin revoked a 2012 decree on Russia's foreign policy course that suggested that Russia would continue to actively search for ways to resolve the conflict in Transnistria with respect to Moldova's sovereignty, territorial integrity and neutral status.

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They do, Russification and destruction of other cultures is mainstay for centuries.

If Turks love him, than is that the biggest problem. Although I doubt you are right on that

Kremlin translator: Russia plans to attack Ukraine via Transnistria dressed in full Uniforms.

Not all of the opposing parties, the main Kurdish party (the HDP) is sitting on the outside of the alliance, though it is probably quietly supporting it.

Turkish voters are very nationalist, and any independent Kurdish representation gets inevitably accused of links with the PKK, so letting the HDP formally into the alliance would be electoral suicide.