If it weren’t for the Turkish Straits Turkey would’ve been kicked out of NATO decades ago. Only reason we keep them is to prevent Soviet/Russian sea forces entering the Med or having an easy way to the Middle-Eastern oilfields in the event of war.

Where there’s smoke there’s...

There’s also the left party who is set to get between 5 and 10% of the vote.

From what I am able determine based on most foreign news, many, many countries are reworking their current allied relationships and doing whatever they can to protect themselves from the coming U.S. shit storm.

Their office is well over 15 employees now. Business is booming!

Thank you for this, especially the explanations at the end! So helpful for those of us still just trying not to drown in our own country’s bullshit.

UK Update:

There’s a post higher up where someone translated the question asked and his full answer.

You wouldn’t believe it, grieving parents are looking for an outside reason their child committed suicide. We only see this story *every single time* someone commits suicide. We saw it over Aaron Hernandez, Sandra Bland, Tyler Clementi. People close to the deceased never want to believe their loved one is…

Near as I can tell, when he was referencing ‘civilizational’ problems it was to say that the issues at hand, the real problems facing many African nations, are not simple surface things than one can throw money at to solve.

Frustratingly, apparently, nobody cares to punish them for blatantly lying or omitting on their clearance forms. Which are advertised as having hefty fines and prison times attached.

Triggering on particular words while ignoring the overall context, which is stupid on its own, is especially stupid when it involves a translation.

The video clip they translated from is also heavily edited, and I suspect cut to make Macron look worse than what he said was.

Yeah that’s the thing about these “people’s groups”. They’re usually a dozen people who want to force their world view onto everyone else.

Thanks for these, they are great.

I’m not a native speaker, but the word (civilizational) seems to have a broad array of potential meanings. It means exactly what you’d expect in French - “of or relating to civilization”.

Linguee can be a handy resource for seeing words in context - this word appears in many UN documents, and its meanings seem…

Maybe I am naive, but to me this reads like him just talking about how profound the crises to be dealt with are. Saying they are civilizational means they threaten the civilization there to it’s core. Saying that there are 7 or 8 children per woman is to give a piece of information to explain why you cannot solve it…

In Taiwan and Korea (South, har har), KFC is most definitely a fried chicken specialist.