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I feel like Turkey's got a long-term strategy of cultivating influence over former Russian client states, and trying to at least snag some military contracts as they do. The Bayraktar drones have been important for Ukraine and apparently were a decisive factor in the Armenia-Azerbaijan war. The coverage I saw of that conflict seemed to indicate Russia only showed up for mop-up duties towards the end of that, whereas Azerbaijan was leveraging Turkish drones the whole time. Turkey also got the boot from the F-35 program for negotiating for the S-400 air defense system at the same time. Erdogan got caught trying to play both sides against each other, and I have to wonder if that was a long-shot gamble to bolster Turkey's military-industrial complex by getting access to as much advanced tech as they could. He definitely has already seen that Moscow is in long-term decline, and wants to strengthen his position as a regional power with an eye towards being a global power. Letting the Saudis get away with murdering Khashoggi in Turkey was probably part of that too.
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kuarduck posted:How does an active shooting war only justify a 20% increase in risk payments? Shouldn't that be much higher since Ukraine had already shown they will attack these tankers? Looks like this is an increase in a war risk premium that's already been tacked on, and shipping actuaries that have any exposure to the Persian Gulf have plenty of prior data to work with involving oil shipments with major shooting wars in the vicinity.
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Sep 9, 2023 03:51
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Must be said, the Ron Paul GIF is particularly apropos here
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Sep 23, 2023 02:08
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Dwesa posted:maybe Russia will nuke Siberia after all I'm still a little bit shocked that Trump didn't threaten to do this first. Budzilla posted:Sort of asking your rich uncle for a new Mercedes Benz for your birthday and he gifts you one of their commercial buses. Hell yeah, look at this beast. Time for Vanlife Extreme! 
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Oct 18, 2023 02:53
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A universal truth, simply stated:Sedgr posted:Fart noises. Good joke!
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Nov 10, 2023 22:57
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Samovar posted:This seems very... Callous? Very... Banal in the face of the political reality of the moment. Not disagreeing that it's kinda cringe, but I also feel like this is a deep cut unless you're so nerdy as to be into the Star Trek soundtracks, not just the show. I gotta wonder how many people actually present would've pegged it as being from Star Trek, just as much as I wonder who the heck chose it. I've also heard a couple times over the years that Jerry Goldsmith more or less copy'n'pasted the same theme song for Air Force One with Harrison Ford the year after First Contact came out, so if that's where they cribbed it from, uh... that's even more cringe...
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quote:“When we return after this work period, we’ll be moving a product, but it’s going to have some important innovations,” Mr. Johnson said on Sunday in an interview on Fox News. lmao pure-strain LinkedIn speech
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