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[–]asterias 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I did some hand work this weekend while trying to avoid thinking about the news or the state of society. Everyone expects war with Turkey, yet the government insists everything is fine and there's no need to worry. TV and the press spew propaganda about how great everything is thanks to the government while the reality is totally different and people are barely making it through the month. This is a truely communist dystopia we're living in.

/u/ethnocrat 's suggestion about garlic and honey sounds interesting, I'm curious about the results you'll see.

The cuties gave me a bittersweet vibe, but anyway it's difficult to say whether the move is worth it. It's always good to have one or two meeting points in case of trouble, but there are platform-dependent advantages and disadvantages that you can judge better from your own point of view. I don't know much about communities.win and how it works, whether you can participate in other topics and whether it's bound to a specific goal (I remember it started so it could host /r/thedonald?). I do remember everyone was quite optimistic about ruqus, so you never know until you try I guess.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Everyone expects war with Turkey

wait what country is this I haven't heard of this at all

[–]asterias 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Greece. The invasion is expected in the forthcoming months.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There's no way that will happen. You're both members of NATO. Why would Turkey even do that?

[–]asterias 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Actually Turkey has announced that they might leave NATO. Even US media imply that Turkey should leave NATO as well. Turkey was also a NATO member during the 1955 events [1] [2] and during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Cyprus [1].

Here are some very recent articles:

https://www.voanews.com/a/greek-forces-on-high-alert-over-crisis-with-turkey/6598746.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/1/dont-try-to-dance-with-turkey-erdogan-halts-talks-with-greece

https://en.protothema.gr/germany-turkey-should-not-dispute-greek-sovereignty/

The reasons are many. The main one is that Turkey always dreamed of re-occupying territories where the local population were living as slaves, and the more recent one is that they demand a part of Greece so that they get access to the oil and gas sources.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If it happens it might unite Europe.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ah fuck I wanted to visit both those countries that's a shame hopefully it'll be limited in scope