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This is an outsiders understanding so any turkish people please correct me if I get something wrong, but to my understanding The Turkish military is actually a secular force and has been a massive driver of a secularist and democratic Turkey before Erdogan came to power, starting with Ataturk...

Definitely not true, counter-example would be WW1, WW2. Also don't believe there was a clear leader of international forces during the Boxer rebellion (though the US was a lesser participant). Napoleonic wars as well.

NASA gets alot of undeserved crap for how its human spaceflight program has been mismanaged by congress, but their unmanned program is really second to none, a true titan in space exploration. Only NASA has sent probes to or by every planet in the solar system (and beyond!) When people talk...

Word is the driver plowed into the crowd then started shooting, possibility of a terrorist attack is high.

Are you referring to minorities as a group here? Because its Hispanics that have that stereotype of huge families not Blacks. Even then no single minority demographic will pass the white demographic in our lifetimes at the very least.

LOL those diehards were very likely independent before this, so no big loss. Certainly no one can call themself a Progressive who supported Bernie with a straight face and still vote for Trump. Bernie is doing what he always said he would do, he made no secret that he would support Hillary if...

Yes I don't doubt that there are few people at your level :):rofl: Why would the Koreans care? Their choice was either being threatened with nuclear destruction by North Korea, or threatened with nuclear destruction by China. They picked China for obvious reasons.

If you are talking about North Korean artillery the threat is wildly overstated. http://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/mind-the-gap-between-rhetoric-and-reality/ A barrage of artillery focused on Seoul and ignoring military threats could cause 10's of thousands of casualties at...

Estimates for strategic nuclear arsenal is anywhere from 6-16. I'd say a THAAD is credible for that amount unless North Korea shot all its nukes at 1 location, such as Seoul, at the same time. Estimate for fissile material I've seen is equivalent to 14-48 nuclear capable weapons considering all...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-usa-northkorea-idUSKCN0W906W North Korea has long threatened South Korea. South Korea has finally decided that the Chinese either can't or won't influence North Korea to change its threatening posture. They don't need it to attack South Korea in the...

Those were offensive weapons, as in they could annihilate US cities on their own. These are defensive, they cant annihilate Chinese cities on their own.

They were a target already, so nothing new then.

That's how the game is played. China develops counter measures and the US develops counter measures to those counter measures (or develops a new technology that renders those counter measures irrelevant) and the process starts anew. A set of 'eyes' inside mainland China is very valuable...

Explain how South Korea doesn't benefit from this. Given their vulnerability to a North Korean missile strike this is exactly what they need. No they aren't going to depend on North Korea's good will. Now they won't depend on China's for that matter. China had ample opportunity to prevent...

Think of a hollowpoint bullet going through a piece of paper, its like that. This missile was intended for bigger and better armored targets than a rusty fishing boat, It just punched right through without detonating.

Don't you have those backwords? By all accounts Hillary is a policy wonk, as she had to be to do her job. When it comes to foreign relations there are few more qualified in either experience or depth of knowledge. That said, alot of actions she has done, whether on purpose or acidentally, are...

nah, no one doubts that Hillary would be in charge, not Bill. Say what you will about Hillary, but she's not a trophy wife.

I didn't even consider this at all as a possibility. That is an interesting option but how much resistance would there be for that in the UK?

Hope UK doesn't regret this. short term will be painful, and there remains a possibility for a total UK breakup from what I'm hearing. Tentative feelers for a 'United Ireland', Scotland requesting another referendum, and from what I see everywhere in Scotland voted to remain in EU). UK no...