turkey is dying, and screaming out in pain.

i think this is a lot of talk. i've stated that before. the turks are not so stupid, not now, not today.

but, even if they do succeed in slaughtering the kurds, and are not wrecked by a consequent embargo, it will only be putting off the inevitable. a hundred years ago, it was the armenians, in more or less the same geographic space. a hundred years from now, it will be some other group that will expand into the vacuum. assyrians, perhaps. or, maybe the armenians even come back; they are the region's historical problem demographic, after all, going back to fucking darius.

turkey simply isn't a real country. it never was. and, it can't be - it just doesn't have the demographics to exist.

but, how do you get an army this big to stand down?

erdogan simply cannot be talking like this. so, he now has to make a hard choice: accept a russian entrance into constantinople, or await the inevitable coup.