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iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4375 Posts
October 09 2019 22:15 GMT
#36961
Whatever the case the EU should take Trumps threat to economically destroy Turkey seriously.
Turkey has 3 million refugees.
Any destabilisation of the Turkish economy will likely lead to a worse refugee flood into Europe than 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43443 Posts
October 09 2019 22:30 GMT
#36962
On October 10 2019 07:15 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Whatever the case the EU should take Trumps threat to economically destroy Turkey seriously.
Turkey has 3 million refugees.
Any destabilisation of the Turkish economy will likely lead to a worse refugee flood into Europe than 2015.

The same threat in which Trump said he’d already destroyed Turkey economically?
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8784 Posts
October 09 2019 22:54 GMT
#36963
On October 10 2019 07:15 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Whatever the case the EU should take Trumps threat to economically destroy Turkey seriously.
Turkey has 3 million refugees.
Any destabilisation of the Turkish economy will likely lead to a worse refugee flood into Europe than 2015.

so what if the eu takes it seriously? what are they going to do about it? condemn trump further for his idiocy? they should get in line then.
i dont know how youre able to defend trump on his actions this much, its pretty incredible actually
Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
October 09 2019 22:57 GMT
#36964
On October 10 2019 07:15 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Whatever the case the EU should take Trumps threat to economically destroy Turkey seriously.
Turkey has 3 million refugees.
Any destabilisation of the Turkish economy will likely lead to a worse refugee flood into Europe than 2015.

Is that your genuine, in your great and unmatched wisdom, analysis?
iamthedave
Profile Joined February 2011
England2814 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-09 23:35:20
October 09 2019 23:35 GMT
#36965
On October 10 2019 07:57 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2019 07:15 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Whatever the case the EU should take Trumps threat to economically destroy Turkey seriously.
Turkey has 3 million refugees.
Any destabilisation of the Turkish economy will likely lead to a worse refugee flood into Europe than 2015.

Is that your genuine, in your great and unmatched wisdom, analysis?


In nettles' world everybody should bow before Trump and obey, and America will never face any consequences for this nonsense ever because America is invincible.
I'm not bad at Starcraft; I just think winning's rude.
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4375 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-10 00:50:51
October 09 2019 23:42 GMT
#36966
On October 10 2019 07:57 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2019 07:15 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Whatever the case the EU should take Trumps threat to economically destroy Turkey seriously.
Turkey has 3 million refugees.
Any destabilisation of the Turkish economy will likely lead to a worse refugee flood into Europe than 2015.

Is that your genuine, in your great and unmatched wisdom, analysis?

Yes, since Erdogan already threatened to release millions of refugees into the west if he didn’t get his safe zone.So either deny Erdogan his safe zone and he releases refugees or harm Turkey economically and they release refugees.EU should strengthen borders now.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/05/erdogan-ill-let-syrian-refugees-leave-turkey-for-west-unless-safe-zone-set-up

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is threatening to “open the gates” to allow Syrian refugees to leave Turkey for western countries unless a controversial “safe zone” inside Syria is established soon


Which do you think isn’t possible?
1.Trump introducing punitive economic tariffs on Turkey, like he has already on Europe, China and Mexico (Until they buckled and negotiated)
2.Erdogan using refugees as a weapon when he does not get his way, like he threatened to do last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18845 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-09 23:44:21
October 09 2019 23:44 GMT
#36967
Lol, good to see that beneath the anti-immigrant veneer is extreme cowardice and bootlicking tendencies, rarely is it so obvious
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4375 Posts
October 10 2019 01:06 GMT
#36968
On October 10 2019 08:44 farvacola wrote:
Lol, good to see that beneath the anti-immigrant veneer is extreme cowardice and bootlicking tendencies, rarely is it so obvious

I’d wager no leader on earth wants 3.6 million refugees moving into their country.

Even the EU did a refugee swap deal with Turkey in 2016 to slow the flow no?

How about don’t support rebel groups and don’t invade the Middle East in the first place.Radical idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
October 10 2019 01:31 GMT
#36969
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
October 10 2019 01:57 GMT
#36970
On October 10 2019 10:06 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2019 08:44 farvacola wrote:
Lol, good to see that beneath the anti-immigrant veneer is extreme cowardice and bootlicking tendencies, rarely is it so obvious

I’d wager no leader on earth wants 3.6 million refugees moving into their country.

Even the EU did a refugee swap deal with Turkey in 2016 to slow the flow no?

How about don’t support rebel groups and don’t invade the Middle East in the first place.Radical idea.

A large amount of us I wager we’re against the Iraq and Afghanistan ventures in the first place, as said, we lack a time machine to go back on such things.

If you do destabilise a region don’t fuck off and leave your former allies high and dry, seems pretty simple to me.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France7949 Posts
October 10 2019 06:38 GMT
#36971
Trump apparently justified letting the kurds getting steamrolled because they weren't in the Normandy landing.

I thought he was an idiot, but it looks more and more like he's actually batshit crazy.
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
Zambrah
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States7393 Posts
October 10 2019 08:12 GMT
#36972
On October 10 2019 15:38 Biff The Understudy wrote:
Trump apparently justified letting the kurds getting steamrolled because they weren't in the Normandy landing.

I thought he was an idiot, but it looks more and more like he's actually batshit crazy.


Why not both?

He's also likely the most easily manipulatable president the US has ever had.

Now what are the odds he does a full 360 on Turkey and the Kurds?
Incremental change is the Democrat version of Trickle Down economics.
Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-10 08:36:57
October 10 2019 08:36 GMT
#36973
On October 10 2019 08:42 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2019 07:57 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
On October 10 2019 07:15 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Whatever the case the EU should take Trumps threat to economically destroy Turkey seriously.
Turkey has 3 million refugees.
Any destabilisation of the Turkish economy will likely lead to a worse refugee flood into Europe than 2015.

Is that your genuine, in your great and unmatched wisdom, analysis?

Yes, since Erdogan already threatened to release millions of refugees into the west if he didn’t get his safe zone.So either deny Erdogan his safe zone and he releases refugees or harm Turkey economically and they release refugees.EU should strengthen borders now.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/05/erdogan-ill-let-syrian-refugees-leave-turkey-for-west-unless-safe-zone-set-up

Show nested quote +
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is threatening to “open the gates” to allow Syrian refugees to leave Turkey for western countries unless a controversial “safe zone” inside Syria is established soon


Which do you think isn’t possible?
1.Trump introducing punitive economic tariffs on Turkey, like he has already on Europe, China and Mexico (Until they buckled and negotiated)
2.Erdogan using refugees as a weapon when he does not get his way, like he threatened to do last month.


Was that before or after Trump has totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (which he has done before!) ?

Iplaynettles see a deranged message and takes it in all seriousness says all you need to say about iPlayNettles.
Neneu
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway492 Posts
October 10 2019 09:24 GMT
#36974
On October 10 2019 08:42 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2019 07:57 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
On October 10 2019 07:15 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Whatever the case the EU should take Trumps threat to economically destroy Turkey seriously.
Turkey has 3 million refugees.
Any destabilisation of the Turkish economy will likely lead to a worse refugee flood into Europe than 2015.

Is that your genuine, in your great and unmatched wisdom, analysis?

Yes, since Erdogan already threatened to release millions of refugees into the west if he didn’t get his safe zone.So either deny Erdogan his safe zone and he releases refugees or harm Turkey economically and they release refugees.EU should strengthen borders now.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/05/erdogan-ill-let-syrian-refugees-leave-turkey-for-west-unless-safe-zone-set-up

Show nested quote +
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is threatening to “open the gates” to allow Syrian refugees to leave Turkey for western countries unless a controversial “safe zone” inside Syria is established soon


Which do you think isn’t possible?
1.Trump introducing punitive economic tariffs on Turkey, like he has already on Europe, China and Mexico (Until they buckled and negotiated)
2.Erdogan using refugees as a weapon when he does not get his way, like he threatened to do last month.



So what should I be more afraid of? Refugees in refugee camps or isis fighters currently in prison camps?
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10831 Posts
October 10 2019 10:15 GMT
#36975
That there are people like Nettles around scares me more than both of these scenarios .
Godwrath
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain10135 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-10 10:32:58
October 10 2019 10:31 GMT
#36976
On October 10 2019 10:06 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2019 08:44 farvacola wrote:
Lol, good to see that beneath the anti-immigrant veneer is extreme cowardice and bootlicking tendencies, rarely is it so obvious


How about don’t support rebel groups and don’t invade the Middle East in the first place.Radical idea.

Who is "you" ? Europeans? Americans?
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11712 Posts
October 10 2019 10:45 GMT
#36977
Also, yes, that would have been a good idea in 2001. Sadly, the US likes to elect warmongering presidents, and actually rewards their warmongering with reelection. People here were already against the Iraq war in 2001. And as it turns out, the whole thing was a horrible disaster in Iraq, then lead to the rise of ISIS and the horrible disaster in Syria. All of that could have been prevented by simply not invading Iraq in 2001. And Afghanistan isn't looking a lot better either.

However, this also means that in my opinion, it is now the US's duty to clean up their own shit. You fucked up that region, now fix it, instead of telling europeans to deal with the fallout of your wars because you start your wars closer to us. And yes, that is hard and expensive to do. So maybe think about that the next time you think that a war would be an easy solution to some problem. Don't break stuff, and you don't have to fix it.

Imagine if the EU suddenly decided to completely fuck up mexico and turn the whole country and everything in the surrounding area into a decades-long civil war. And then we just decide to leave and tell the US to deal with it.
Trainrunnef
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States599 Posts
October 10 2019 14:32 GMT
#36978
On October 10 2019 19:45 Simberto wrote:
Also, yes, that would have been a good idea in 2001. Sadly, the US likes to elect warmongering presidents, and actually rewards their warmongering with reelection. People here were already against the Iraq war in 2001. And as it turns out, the whole thing was a horrible disaster in Iraq, then lead to the rise of ISIS and the horrible disaster in Syria. All of that could have been prevented by simply not invading Iraq in 2001. And Afghanistan isn't looking a lot better either.

However, this also means that in my opinion, it is now the US's duty to clean up their own shit. You fucked up that region, now fix it, instead of telling europeans to deal with the fallout of your wars because you start your wars closer to us. And yes, that is hard and expensive to do. So maybe think about that the next time you think that a war would be an easy solution to some problem. Don't break stuff, and you don't have to fix it.

Imagine if the EU suddenly decided to completely fuck up mexico and turn the whole country and everything in the surrounding area into a decades-long civil war. And then we just decide to leave and tell the US to deal with it.



Its my personal belief that the decision to attack Iraq, has directly led to the election of Trump and the vast majority of the turmoil we see today. it created a very long chain of events that led to millions of displaced arabs & muslims, fueling the anti-immigrant sentiments we are seeing today.
I am, therefore I pee
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15726 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-10 15:29:13
October 10 2019 15:28 GMT
#36979
Giuliani associates arrested at the airport trying to flee the country. Barr was told last night they would be arrested. I can't help but suspect Barr indirectly tipped them off. I really want to know where they bought tickets to. Where were they headed where they felt safe and protected?

Indictment: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/U.S.v.LevParnasetalIndictment.pdf

At and around the same time PARNAS and FRUMAN committed to raising those funds for Congressman-1 PARNAS met ith Congressman-1 and sought his assistance in causing the U.S. government to remove or recall the then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. PARNAS's efforts to remove the ambassador were conducted, at least in part, at the request of one or more Ukrainian government officials.


NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/politics/lev-parnas-igor-fruman-arrested-giuliani.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18845 Posts
October 10 2019 15:31 GMT
#36980
Turkey or Russia are good guesses.
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
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