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Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

The naval rivalry between Greece and Turkey over oil drilling sounds about as nonviolent as the bloody Cod War.

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Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Vasukhani posted:

this is going to be the stupidist loving proxy war ever

imagine the balkin wars happening during the cold war, thats what we're looking at here

https://twitter.com/Diplomat_APAC/status/1305091352154210307

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

The only thing I know about Baku is that something's going on over there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku_bid_for_the_2016_Summer_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku_bid_for_the_2020_Summer_Olympics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bids_for_the_2024_and_2028_Summer_Olympics#Proposed_bids_which_did_not_go_to_application

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/Breaking9Il/status/1310646543276339200

I still don't get what troll this account is going for. Is Aleksa Duric a meme that predates it

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Meme origin:

https://twitter.com/libyapro2/status/1264939052517785600

https://twitter.com/MohsenDerregia/status/1264660361183191040

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Kazinsal posted:

They have a real problem not doing genocides, it seems

how many more of these are people forgetting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Vasukhani posted:

Iran is doubling down support for Armenia. Get ready for us to official embrace panturkism

Panturanism*

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012


Someone should reply with Lepanto

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

So, is there any interest in the actual region of being an independent state as a solution, as there is in Kashmir? Wondering how many cases of these disputed territorial conflicts could be resolved by splitting the difference and just letting the locals run things on their own in neutrality.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

twoday posted:



Officially they consider themselves as such, although it’s not internationally recognized.

Yeah, but I'm wondering if they're independent now but seek future annexation into Armenia, sort of like Russia does with the self-declared Donbass republics or with regions like South Ossetia. Not exactly independent and neutral like in the case of a hypothetical truly independent Kashmir.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Al-Saqr posted:

Man, I loving hate the 21st century, it’s going to absolutely suck big time. I think we’re actually going to see a return to nation-nation conflict now that the world is going multipolar and now that oil and gas pipelines are gonna be a big issue in the coming years.

Tom Clancy was right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgQrUGDHv5M

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

DrPop posted:

Yup, it was some real green scare poo poo

Neo-Malthusian deep ecologist billionaires launching a bioengineered plague at the Sydney Olympics

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Ardennes posted:

Btw, the US has minimal pull in the conflict largely because the former US ambassador to Baku openly called for regime change in a few years back and permanently blew up US - Azerbaijani relations.

Sounds like someone really wants to prevent the Baku Olympics.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Fuligin posted:

when i was a teen in tge early oughts i really thought we wouldnt see the signs of american decline until my late middle age lol

Wonder if Bush and co. weren't in charge if that would've made things any better

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

I'm surprised that France never tried to meddle in Syria more like they did and are in Libya.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Atrocious Joe posted:

France rejoined in 2009. Thanks Obama.

Just in time to push everyone into Libya

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

OhFunny posted:

https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1311723596411211777?s=19

I read that this account has some connections to the Turkish General Staff and if this is remotely true then some truly delusional thinking is happening in the upper Turks circles.

Wait, has Turkey been active in Ukraine at all? And does this mean they want to start backing Georgia against Abkhazia and South Ossetia lol

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

im excited for the full ww1 cascading alliances where russia invades azerbaijan, triggering a full invasion of armenia by turkey, triggering the greeks to invade turkey, somehow roping in Iran, and then a dying trump from his hospital bed nukes both sides for some reason

You forgot Pakistan attacks India which ropes in China

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Imagine if there are Islamist Uyghur East Turkestan jihadists who fought in Syria now shipping out to Azerbaijan. Truly becoming a Kojima forever war post-ideological mercenary character

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Bump that thread now that Borat 2 is almost out

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Spergin Morlock posted:

its actually been delayed until october 2021

ah guess they think they can take on Dune

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Celebrities getting drafted into the cyberwar for hearts and minds

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Zedhe Khoja posted:

You could take it back even further if you wanted to, cuz the Armenians and Jews often filled the same societal niches in the region, with all the competing interests that implies. Trying to rile up their muslim neighbors to take out the heathen competition was pretty common. Solidarity is hard folks.

Is that what happened to the Assyrians and Kurds

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012


what's their official designation, Levantine Turks?

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Georgia is opposing Armenia because if the latter gets conquered then they get the mantle of oldest Christian country in the world

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

GreyjoyBastard posted:

yeah while i was kinda fascinated watching the Something Awful / CSPAM position on which side was less likely to be preferred by the US good form, anecdotally the position of even generally pretty well informed normal human beings seems to be "azerwho?"

It's got a late '90s Clinton feel to it. Interethnic strife in the Balkans and in East Timor

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

sullat posted:

Well, they (The British) secretly promised the same chunk of Anatolia to both the Greeks and the Italians. Once the Italians found out, they pulled out of the coalition's attack on Turkey leaving the Greeks and French to fight alone with only massive British cash subsidies to aid them.

Reuniting the Western and Eastern Rome would've solved that one.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

The SOAD tracks and music video especially are a little dissonant feeling because on one hand while naturally they would support Armenia in what they would view is a war of survival against aggression, hearing them sing anything in favor of military and patriotism is just so strange

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/dersi4m/status/1325979522894868480

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

tbf, did Newsweek know there would be pogroms?

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

frankenfreak posted:

So pissy over Eurovision, they're making their own. :xd:

The pan-Turanist Olympics own though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52G8wqIPZbc

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Kinda sounds like Russia's narrative against Ukraine for dumping Minsk II

https://twitter.com/NasimiAghayev/status/1569553117489860610

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/gunterfehlinger/status/1701232687476863333?s=46

https://twitter.com/gunterfehlinger/status/1701543781965680858?s=46

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

tristeham posted:

lolling at the "armenia should have just joined nato" discourse in d&d

https://twitter.com/GunterFehlinger/status/1701676340850651233

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

yellowcar posted:

as much as i love gunther i can't comprehend his reasoning most of the time lol

https://twitter.com/BeudotEzra/status/1701725485850300785

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Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

he's cooking

https://twitter.com/GunterFehlinger/status/1702742614854787577

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