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Yes of course that is the domestic perception and propaganda legitimacy in order to maintain your regime part of the equation, but also there is the obvious second collective psychological part of it in the fact that there is a visible perception of humiliation and lack of respect that a visit by a foreign official on a land very similar culturally to yours and just a few hundred kilometers away from you needs to be conducted by threats of military force and aircraft carriers in waters close to you - it is like a massive imperialist display of military might by a foreign power or nation different from yours in lands near you just in order for so for their officials can make random visit to one island population and region there - it still looks bad optics wise no matter how you look at it or were you are from or culturally belong as a human being on this planet - and I bet it feels humiliating and depressing for the people there as if they are treated as some second-class of citizens in the global population and potentially violent horde and mass that needs to be kept in check and under surveillance through exclusively foreign international military powers while propping up military bars that you set all around them - like they are in some sort of international global equivalent of a detention or prison for a people or nation. Anyways that's my take on the harms to the collective psychological aspect dimension of this, all people everywhere on this Planet wanted to be treated as equals and inherently equal human beings no matter where they are from, their background or feel that they belong to and with reference and having in mind of their natural human dignity and respect of belonging to and sharing in of a collective of a people and community, and this all the more especially true for people's or nations that have the lingering trauma of losing those rights once in the past by being colonized, separated and marginalised not so long ago - that has to be always kept in mind imo when engaging in foreign to foreign interactions between different types of human beings on Planet Earth currently existing, inhabitating it and living together on it.

Biden did this in July this year, that's not the issue. The issue is if he said statements akin to we unequivocally support the right of people's, and henceforth Palestinians right to their self-determination on forming a sovereign self-governance and statehood on land internationally recognized in part to belong to Israels internationally recognized borders - which the current Palestinian idea of statehood currently encapsulates, that is subtly officially advocating with the intent of the visit and statements a independence statehood movement or an official declaration secession in Taiwans case, which he didn't do but simply blanketly stated and called upon both Israel and Palestinians to peace and respecting the human rights of each other while of course accentuating Palestinians and urged for the two sides to reach a compromise over their administrative governance borders and issues - that is he took a semi neutral diplomatic stance with the visit (since he both visited Israelis and Palestinians governing and administrative regions) even though obviously biased in the favor of Israel and Israelis since the US along with other Western nations doesn't recognize an existence internationally on a map of a Palestine or any Palestinian self-governing administrative regions but see them all as belonging to a state or country of Israel. Nancy's visit would be even more biased in favor of a Taiwanese Independence movement and in general US assets and military allies in East Asia and the Asia Pacific since she didn't plan on her trip to either visit Mainland China or some other large country but instead all these island micronations or parts of divided nations including Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan etc. and would be unofficially signaling and promoting of a Taiwanese independence movement with the move by signaling it out specifically among all other nations in the region even though the US government still doesn't acknowledge it as such in it's official documents. And what's even worse optics wise, from the Chinese point of view especially, is that you have to do this with US nuclear powered aircraft carrier ships cruising in the Taiwanese strait separating Mainland China from the Taiwan island with just a several hundred kilometers distance as some sort of 'mediators or peacekeepers in international waters' while their state official's and representatives promote independence of islands several hundred kilometers away from the Chinese Mainland, they almost seem in their eyes like the British centuries ago arriving on their ships forcing the Chinese to their British naval supremacy in waters in close proximity to them to accept in agreements the ceding and leasing of their vital sea trading ports and hubs of Hong Kong and Macau for a hundred years while they subsequently colonize them which the Chinese would only later be allowed to reclaim and along with the population there - it looks optic wise in their eyes like a bitter historical taste and humiliation of that repeating itself again with US high-valued military assets freely cruising and deliberately applying pressure in waters kilometres away from China just in order to facilitate a visit by US official to give her overperformative dramatic speech simply to subtly greenlight and give tacit support in the unforseen, close future of an idea of Taiwan perhaps becoming a sovereign nation and independent country and the people there constructing a civic identity of no longer being affiliated culturally with being Mainland Chinese in any way but by being a Taiwanese national identity - that's how I see the whole spiel and game being around this from a long-term political perspective and to try to atleast for the US to slowly but gradually ween off domestically while not having a severe international crisis in the meanwhile disrupting that supply chain and tanking and crashing the economy seveerely domestically due to sudden shortages and supply disruptions from the Taiwanese semi-conductor and chip production monopoly on the world market, opting to rely more on South Korea which also has a quite a share in it in it's global production output instead, while not allowing China to take a hold of it at the same time as well to dictate its prices by having it as another monopoly on their side. It seems like a strange but dangerous attempt of balancing act while walking on wires that you set yourself upon intentionally or unintentionally on extremely unfavourable, unstable, reckless and dangerous high altitude positions due to some other short-sighted political and economic motives.

Overblown alarmist hype to what is essentially going to be an overperformative PR move and stunt to act as little chronological droplet in their move and attempt to legitimise their working on around the clock of forming a strong Taiwanese Independence movement with US backing, aid and support which China may attempt to crush or take control or hold over and management at some point seriously in the future like it did with the Tibetan and Xinjaing-Uyghur one in the past .

"The suspected shooter told officers he had a grudge against a specific group he believed Abe was connected to, police said, adding that they were investigating why the former PM was targeted out of other people related to the group. - Hmmm an interesting added spin and crucial layer of information to the story. Is it the far-right political sectarian and historical revisionist organisation Nippon Kaigi perhaps that he was reffering to and that is embedded within some members of the LDP leadership Asked by a member of the Japanese media whether the gunman's intention was to kill Abe, police say only that Mr Yamagami admitted to shooting the former PM." - Perhaps his only intention was to send a strong political message to the Nippon Kaigi sectarian organisation and exclusivitic club made up of some older and influential Japanese political elites embedded in some parts of the LDP that they cannot operate with complete immunity and sense of omnipotence from the general public within their country and solely using their political power and majority in the Senate - Upper House via LDP dictate themselves the direction in which they wish to take the country and it's citizens via a more readily belligerent stance towards their biggest neighbour, trading partner and rival in the region - namely China - and maybe some other international affairs regarding that sects embedded within the party stated ideological stances on past historical and contemporary international political situations. So he possibly maybe originally had in mind at first perhaps that he wanted to target and wound the most publicly recognizable and influential head of that organisation and exclusivitic sect in order to send them a message that they are not invisible, invincible, immune, free reigning and omnipotent from the Japanese general public and their scrutiny in which direction they want to take their country to using these said mechanisms in Japanese politics and culture. He probably maybe had in mind with the original intent of the plan to represent and paint himself with the optics of the act as the bold enough and brave enough representative of the unheard "Silent Majority" of the country that carried out in the name of that part of the Japanese general public and constituency - in maybe perhaps hopes that he will became the "brave and bold enough, self-sacrificing" political symbol of martyrdom and victimhood of that part of the Japanese general public in order to mobilize them and usher in a demand for political change with that botched act as the only avenue left for that part of voice of the public to be heard in order garner sympathies as a political martyr leader symbolising that part of the unheard "Silent Majority" of the Japanese public in his idealising delusional head of how idealistically and optimistically this pre-planned act and event in his head should have transpired and which political direction it should have taken centering around him as the main instigator and usherer of instability and perceived necessary changes to come within the country that will rid it from this perceived current rotting foundations, the course they have set in themselves for and their accompanying corruption exhibited in some parts of the leadership that he saw.

I wasn't aware of or reffering to the person in question quoted below my quote when I wrote the first sentence of my paragraph. I was only referring to the content of my original first post above the second one I afterwards wrote as a response to the interpreted insertion that I thought was addressed to me as well for my feeling of skepticisms on way the news of this event was reported, generally received and interpreted that my first post contained specifically celebratory or cheerful elements of a person's death. I wasn't referring in plural to all persons who commented on this thread but was only referring to myself personally, nor did I suggest that people should be "grouped" based on opinions and feelings expressed around this issue, someone else did that already automatically in their mind beforehand as general rule of thumb when approaching "a set group of people" people they themselves compartmentalised based on their own personally quickly assessed and assumed filtering criteria that are discussing this issue.

No one is wishing death upon or glad that a human being died, but in fact people are just observing what led up to such a tragic unfolding of events, and how the person in question was himself responsible in exacerbating the conditions in the fueling of the potentiality of such outcomes or events to transpire or come to fruition. If you have similar beliefs to Hitler, and you are enacting political, economic and cultural policies similar as such that eventually trickle down to your domestic population's mental, socio-cultural and material well-being don't be surprised as such that you may get attempts to target and terminate your life as the biggest and most influential and easily recognizable symbolic figurehead of that or undeclared recognized leader of that, and that some of those crafty and innovative enough might be successful - even though with all the current available evidence about the motivations behind this killing (I don't want to use the word assassination since this doesn't seem to be a politically influenced or motivated killing) are a personal self-identity ego grievance in nature: "Before carrying out the attack he had posted a message online saying, "I will kill people in Akihabara" and "I don't have a single friend, I am ignored because I'm ugly. I am lower than trash." My point is if it was going to happen inevitably, better that he killed this 67 year-old full-lived life backwards looking old politically powerful and influential geezer to send a strong political message to the Japanese and international public about the dysfunctionality and toxicity of their politics and it's connected culture, then some innocent random strolling kids or young adults in Akihabara* to vent his piled on and accumulated frustrations out - at least unlike American mass-shooter incels he had more human dignity, honor and one can maybe call it "self-consciousness" and "self-awareness" and "bravery" not to vent out his anger and frustrations and target and kill innocent bystanders and civilians of often oppressed minority and marginalised groups in the country, but rather the former very influential head of the government that led to such policies and troubled and anxious state in the country - more total good than no one at all in already desperate and tragic unfolding of events and situation. And finally there is nothing inherently wrong or unnatural in killing if it is part of the natural process of the flow of the world - "Killing is murder only when it's wrong" - now that is an assertion to contemplate around. excerpt from "Decision and Dissent" by David Brianza.

"He was a true democrat" - Jens Stoltenberg, current NATO alliance General Secretary. A blantly false assertion and statement, since he became a leading crucial figure and instrumental part of the single ruling party Japanese political establishment, that wasn't in power and forming ruling governments only briefly twice since the establishment of the 1953 system. He was an instrumental member of a long-running decades spanning aristocratic ruling classes political family in Japan (who's father, who was also Prime Minister once at the time, was responsible for signining a deal and agreement with the US government in the 1960s, that sparked nationwide infamous Anpo protests that paved the way for an indefinite increase of US military bases and presence on Okinawa and other islands and parts of Japan). He was also leading figure and a man using his political influence, power, family name and credibility in the Japanese ruling political establishment that was the most responsible for spearheading the intent and the political will for Japan to legally and constitutionally break away from it's post-war pacifist constitutional and legal commitments and obligations that inhibited it and prevented it to have a independent army and military force that could be used to wage first strike, aggressive wars against it's neighbours and abroad, using his said political influence and power to obfuscate the democratic and legislative processes to make an attempt, almost effectively by fiat, to dramatically make such a foundational constitutional amendment and crucial and critical change in the new foundation and conception of the Japanese post-war political and legal system. Also, one cannot analyze this tragic event without having in mind the fierce resistance, powerlessness and alienation of some, not small insignificant parts of the Japanese public that felt and feel that their almost, borderline patrimonial aristocratic political elite and their old corporate monopoly gerontocratic business elite backers and allies that effectively have all the power concentrated and monopolised for them to run the country alone as they see fit, are deliberately taking the country away from it's pacifist commitments and developed post-war culture to again to a more justifying and past revisionist militaristic, aggressive stance towards China in general and regarding the Taiwanese question (signaling commitment to partake directly in it's military defence with the US and it's other allied countries on that issue) for their own business interest and at the behest and demands of the US government and present US military apparatus stationed in the Asia-Pacific region. As for the person who assassinated him, here it seems is the culmination and eruption of his personal grievances that are combined I would assume with deep often repressed and unspoken feelings of anxiety, powerlessness and insecurity felt in some large parts of the Japanese population that the Japanese political elite, with the former Prime Minister in question being effectively their establishment's long running "Grey Eminence" with the most power, credibility and influence within the LDP ruling party, are yet taking them again in and exposing Japan again to a precipice of a scourge of another potentially equally or even more devastating war with China for the sake of their own holding onto relevancy and power maintenance interests of finding a new threat and boogeyman, Big Business military interests both in Japan and in the US from which they don't have an independent say, stance or policy but act effectively as the US's political stooges in that regard and without the Japanese people's consent and input on the issue of them being driven in into another potentially devastating and destructive war on their mainland by their unaccountable and unchanging intertwining interests of their authoritarian, patrimonial, aristocratic political and business elites interests coaligning and the behest of the US government and military interests in the Asia-Pacific. Also his homemade gun, in my personal opinion and taste, looks aesthetically pleasing, awesome and rad, like an improvised futuristic wrist mounted grenade launcher - like a fitting signature accomplice weapon beffiting of a true futuristic assassin who lives by and for the Creed- "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" - Altaïr Ibn La'Ahad ?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/7/sdf-turn-assad-turkey-attacks-syria

This happens right after Turkey, as a NATO member, refuses to unanimously approve Finland and Swedens NATO membership bid unless they extradite all active members of the PKK (Kurdish Communist Party) (branded as an illegal terrorist organization by the Turkish government) and YPG (People's Defense Units) (militia members of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria composed mainly of Kurds but also other nationalties) that have supposedly immigrated to Sweden and Finland and are now present and operating there and some are supposedly even members of parliament in those countries. Turkey, since their demand will most likely not be fulfilled by the Swedish and Finnish governments, is now resolved to pre-emptively establish a 30 km wide and 480 km long "peace corridor" in Syria, to establish a buffer zone between itself and the the northern regions in Syria occupied mainly by the Kurdish led SDF, by invading that part of the country with it's military forces and occupying it. A remainder that Turkish military to this day since 1970 occupies the northern part of Cyprus, mainly populated by the Turkish population of the country, though it still has some Greek minority population present there, and declares it an independent state entity and republic which is only recognized by Turkey (as far as I know) and effectively serves as a part of Turkey because of it's EEZ (exclusive economic zone) claims in the Mediterranean sea around the island. Greek Cypriots and Greece doesn't recognize this para-state entity and quasi-republic (The Republic of North Cyprus) in the north of Cyprus and want effectively the Republic of Cyprus to become one, territorially whole, independent country and state entity again through a one-state solution, as it once was. Note in advance: This is a 44 minute long video trying to explain (from a Syrians perspective) the motivations, strategy, self-interests and logic of this announcement and move by Erdogan, the current Turkish government and military.

It is the ying and yang number symbol. The eternal way of peace, harmony and balance of the Tao, The Way ?

Yeah I think as well Putin is only 69 years old currently - not adding the severity of his possible added health problems and final diagnosis on their symptom.

What's the point of a senator then, as someone who has attained wisdom through a lot of experience through life as an office-holder, able to better recognize, recognize and act on patterns that he has already lived through and seen before, and not being caught off guard inexperienced as someone early in the game, and also as someone who also acts as a transfer and conduit of attained wisdom through experience to the next generation of public servants. "The idea of a senate as a legislative assembly goes back to the founding of Rome, around 750 B.C.E., with the word taken from the Latin senatus, meaning "highest council." That word, then, is thought to come from senex, meaning "old man," in this case probably meant as a form of respect for wisdom."

If there is hint of truth to this, I seriously hope he finds a replacement for himself soon before the supposed clock on those two or three years runs out, the worst-case scenario that I fear is that something major might happen on the Ukraine front disfavoring the Russian side (like an attempt and possibility of the Ukrainians taking the whole of Crimea back) and Putin in his waning terminal health and state of mind gets paranoid he might lose it all, misjudges and decides to deploy an A2/AD (an anti-access and area-denial weapon) on Ukraine and Ukranians, and that we would be forced to watch in shock and horror another Hiroshima moment in Ukraine in the 2020s. https://behorizon.org/russian-a2ad-strategy-and-its-implications-for-nato/ https://warontherocks.com/2019/09/its-time-to-talk-about-a2-ad-rethinking-the-russian-military-challenge/

Possibly. There is plenty of tension in Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially around the Republic of Srpska entity and the two Croatian and Bosnian federal units, and now around that possibility. Though there are no official Russian military forces yet stationed there, as far as I know, there are supposed Russian para-militaries there disguised as private civilian orgs there that came on official ''statehood'' holiday visitations in the entity. Kosovo would be a different matter, if there is a conflict there leading up to a full-scale exchange of hostilities and war it would probably be caused or triggered by the official Serbian Army rushing and invading one of the Serbian enclaves in the north of the region or conducting artillery or multiple rocket launcher strikes, for whatever reason, on the Kosovar Army positions around it to secure it as a buffer zone and trying to effectively secede it from the country, well that's my layman's theory of how at most it might go down anyway. While in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the worst possible scenario, there are risks of igniting a full-scale civil war in the country again, raging and acting effectively as another proxy war zone between NATO and Russia, with both sides supplying each of the warring sides engaged in fratricide again, well at least those are my personal imagined worst cases scenario at how at worst if it all internationally and politically breaks down and comes to it, it might go down again. Yes, there are plenty of far-right fascist nationalist extremists here with a revisionist justifying outlook on their own past recent history, genocides, and war crimes. Ohh but it does matter since if you effectively seize the state here you can almost effectively conduct your inner and foreign policy as you please and see fit. The example of Serbian Democrats here briefly holding onto power with a marked shift in the countries policy towards rapid pace EU integration and concession pleasing - even though the polls or that were markedly better than they are today due to the countries economic state than compared to now, marked with boisterousness, overconfidence, and pride for some small scale gains in progress that would have eventually had to occur and happen anyway - but still one can play around and obfuscate around the majority of the easily influenced public opinion with the offering of juicy, lucrative and attractive enough things in return. Lol, Serbian extremism is state-backed, so if you seize the state you can easily, slowly but surely, with effective policy and economic decisions, marginalize it into political irrelevance. I see you are attempting sneakily and egoically to make a false equivalence attempt here with Serbian and Kurdish nationalists, in order to demonize, justify and legitimize decades-long Turkish oppression, war crimes, and genocides over the Kurds. Kurdish nationalism is born out of the desire to stop being the victim and to be completely free of centuries and decades-long Turkish oppression and attempt at eliminating and crushing the Kurd's desire for a separate national and cultural identity, self-governance, and territorial autonomy, while contemporary Serbian nationalism is born out of the desire to hegemonically dominate and rule over (infantile imperialism) and exact vengeance and revenge on those people around surrounding it whom it arrogantly deems lesser and inferior to itself, while not being much more developed and conscious itself in reality. Stop hunting down the Kurds like rabid dogs, apologize, make amends and repatriate them for your past war crimes over them and give them some guarantees on territorial autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-governance, and they won't be difficult to deal with. You are not fundamentally any better with that belief system, or even worse in some aspects, than the Israelis who call the Palestinians they routinely kill, abuse, and oppress all terrorists while they lord over them internationally unchecked, denying the right to the Palestinians to even resist or have any say on their own land in the apartheid state prison they have constructed for them. If your current country pretends to care what Israelis do to Muslims there and pay lip service to the Palestinian cause and their right to be free of oppression and degradation to second-grade citizens on their own land, then don't just cynically rhetorically say it to get some brownie points with other Muslims in the world to make a false PR Muslim country image of what your own country is actually doing regarding that (jack sh#t together with the Gulf States), while you hypocritically do the almost exact same thing with another nationality and ethnic group at home, denying them to right to exist as separate people on their own land. In short, of course, it's illegal trespassing into another country's territory, since it's the internationally recognized borders of another country, your country hasn't declared war on that country, since, in contrast to what you asserted falsely and deceptively, Turkey is not doing this as a member of NATO (lol why were there then soldiers of NATO member the U.S. then stationed there to prevent and deter a military invasion, if it is a NATO op, your own narrative and justification doesn't itself add up and make cohesive sense), and this is not a member state unanimously sanctioned and voted upon military operation, it's doing this on its own as a state (there is no agreed coalition of member states behind it backing to launch a ''war on terror'' or ''anti-terrorist operation'' by invading another country), and henceforth what it is planning to do is an internationally illegal act of war upon a minority nationality it has no administrative governance or reaches over. Lol again with the deceptive, demonization falsehoods and straw-man arguments. The only ''far-right extremists'' who are maybe upset about this are those in the south of Syria. Other than that the real ones who are upset and will be hurt and maybe even killed by this are the minority Kurds, whom your country's government constantly illegally persecutes at every step, who are for all intents and purposes in this specific political context they find themselves in and in contrast to greater Turkish imperialism, nationalism, revanchism and chauvinism, a left-wing anti-colonial oppressed minority self-determination and independence movement. Lol, they even use the socialist red star ffs in all their organization logos and identify the main ideology they espouse as federated democratic worker's self-governance socialism, and there is only one explicit Kurdish nationalist org and party out of all of them and it's in the Iraq region/area of Kurdistan. And nobody is also making a large enough international fuss about it yet is because NATO is a self-interested cuck org in regards to Turkey as shown by various examples over the decades, the US itself militarily aided and backed Turkey's state-sanctioned genociding, persecution, and oppression of the Kurds during the late Cold War years on its own territory, and now, of course, they won't probably cause they would goodly use and need Finland and Sweden in, need Turkey to act as a constant present threat of a militarily balancing force with Ukraine and Russia and of course need another state in the Middle East to present a veneer of a balancing force, back and legitimize and align with Israels hawkish foreign policy and domestic abuse of Palestinians - with empty rhetoric veiled threats, and also to have a militarily strong allied Muslim state-actor to have control over Idlib to keep in check and control over the new international jihadists and Islamists gathering hub there escaped from their ''adversarial countries'' - lol I seriously hope in the near future Idlib doesn't turn out to become a new Afghanistan Peshawar equivalent safe-haven now gathering spot in Syria for the international jihadist or Islamist movement. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't stop a possibility or potential near-future conflict or war from effectively breaking out because the current government has effectively, with its useful idiot backers, wrestled any oversight, input, or control of it from the majority (though still in the minority here effectively when taken from the percentage of the total population) of the oppositional public to it, it effectively can do over the next 4 years whatever it pleases, of course, if people rally up and go out in critical en masse and protest forcefully enough and attempt a general strike at some decision in enough of quantity then that's a different matter since it has, over the last couple of years while in power, concentrated and centralized all power steadily around authoritarian functioning of the state and it's internal policing organs. As for the Turkish forces NATO detachment here? Maybe, but I highly doubt it. I mean is Turkey really going to fight Russia after it can't even impose as an 'independent' sovereign state any sanctions on it out of natural gas and heating insecurities over a much larger and important proxy war lol, and also in the 90s of why there were only a few if any Turkish NATO detachments here, apart from some in Bosnia, the reason why is that other NATO European powers didn't want to have the bad optics of a former 'hated' imperial power military forces arriving again here, having too much military presence and ruling on the Balkans, under the veil of any military alliance that effectively controls them or otherwise or any cause, coming in again to fight the Christian populations, and establish and assert some illusion of concrete 'influence' over the Muslim populations here, other than ideological moderation and moderatism, so they don't revert back to some abnormalities of extremist fundamentalism coming from some jihadi Islamist mujahadeen fighters and their ideological influence that arrived there for a brief moment during the Civil War.

Ah, the primate instinct activation threat, baby chimps from their own chimp group, then if I understood correctly.

Another classic from the time machine in the dark humor, politically cynical department if I may be so ungraceful: ''NRA Sets 1,000 Killed In School Shooting As Amount It Would Take For Them To Reconsider Much Of Anything'' 5/25/12 2:18 PM ‘Yeah, Something Like 1,000 Dead Kids,’ Reports Spokesperson NRA officials said the school would have to be “super, super bloody” after the shooting for the organization to question its pro-gun stance. FAIRFAX, VA—National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre said Monday that somewhere around 1,000 kids would have to die in a school shooting in order for the organization to reconsider its longstanding opposition to gun control.'' https://www.theonion.com/nra-sets-1-000-killed-in-school-shooting-as-amount-it-w-1819573533

I think you got your understanding of that situation in reverse, with what mindset exactly? The rogue regime in Serbia, internationally a pariah at that point because of the consequences of the Bosnian war, not agreeing to any prior urgently urged internationally diplomatically mediated accords and settlement agreements that would give some concessions, autonomy, and the legal possibility of allowing in several years a possible referendum to be held on autonomy and independence by the Muslim Albanian supermajority of that province and instead opting to launch a failed, several phases, ethnic cleansing military operation marked by a plethora of genocides and war crimes against regular Albanian civilians and kids, and not the insurgent KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) militia, threatening to spark one of the biggest refugee crises at that time in Europe since the end of the Cold War, with the risk of almost one million Albanian refugees from Kosovo pouring and dispersed into Albania and southern European Adriatic and Mediterranean countries like Greece, Croatia and Italy respectively seeking asylum, and ending of course in Serbia's famous second late 90's debut worldwide media spectacle of a 78 day NATO military intervention countrywide bombardment right in the middle of Europe, with the country suffering the reported total economic cost (reported by the private Serbian G17 group of economists and economists of the Serbian Economic Forum) because of the total damages (infrastructural and halting of GDP growth wise) caused solely during the duration of the bombardment of up to an estimated 30-50 billion dollars in economic damages for a small European country of about 6-7 million people then and effectively freezing and halting the countries yearly GDP growth and economic development in catching up to other countries in the region (in contrast to it's past size of it's total economy as a sole republic) for several years and decades. What a smart trade-off and win-win decision by the government in deciding to commit a lot of resources and launch that soaring success of a full-scale military operation intended from the very start, with using the cloak of putting down and fighting Albanian KLA militant insurgents, to be ethnic cleansing in character. Truly any other way of resolving and doing that, apart from launching an international political and economic kamikaze equivalent of a military invasion and the central government in Serbia would surely have lost Kosovo out of its grasp certainly as if it already hadn't already effectively decades before that. I have at least learned as much what are the moral, psychological, political, economic, and existential costs of irredentism, revanchism, xenophobia, and jingoism carried out against hated different religious, cultural and ethnic-lingual minority groups in the country in the above-mentioned detailed historical chronological description of the causality behind those sequence of events. But I fear most of the Serbian people and the current government in charge haven't and are still effectively in denial of what above I have mentioned, and are now, based on gauging and assessing some stats the public opinion here and the mentality towards political issues, ready to walk right in and repeat the same mistakes with only a difference in veneer and semantics to them. Kosovo was effectively no longer a Serbian province or a province in Serbia, demographically wise, in the 1980s. The total population census in 1934 - In the political unitary Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the ratio between ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo was about 60-65 to 30-35 percent. The total population census in 1960 - In the federated Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the ratio between ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo is 30-35 to 60-65 percent. The total population census in 1980 - ethnic Albanians compromise over 80 close to 90 percent of the total population in Kosovo. Today, there are almost 2 million Albanians in Kosovo, while there are barely around one hundred thousand ethnic Serbs there. In fact, there are fewer Serbs in Kosovo now, than there are Serbs in Croatia (about one hundred and fifty thousand Serbs are registered there as an official national minority) that supposedly orchestrated a widespread ethnic cleansing campaign of some few hundred thousand Serbs in order to completely clear them from its territories, and yet there is still almost one hundred and fifty thousand of Serbs there, in a country that has a total population now of barely three million on all its internationally recognised territorial encompassing reach. What had happened in Kosovo for this apparent several decades only lasting seeming sudden demographic shift? Well, simple, Muslim Albanians in accordance with their religion and Albanian traditional tribal and ethnic customs had a fertility rate in each Albanian family on the average of at least 4.5 (or one woman giving birth to 4 to 5 kids) up to 6.5 (that means 6 to 7 kids in one family) - add to that an extended family living accommodation to that and you have cases then Albanian family compromising almost 40-50 family members under one roof, while Serbian families on Kosovo were having almost a middle class developed Western nuclear family life accommodation style and fertility rate of 1.5 to 2.5 to 3 something at max (an average Serbian agrarian or even working-class of that time family would still have on average up to 2 kids most of the time, rarely 3 or 4) and were also selling their properties by the dozens in order to immigrate north in the country to Albanians who needed it house members of their large extended families working abroad as Gastarbeiter's (''guest workers'') in Germany and Switzerland and wanting to have and return to a property and start a family of their own on Kosovo. So yes, these are the facts, that the current Serbian government won't acknowledge or tell its population, with a part of them being overly and obsessively fixated on some left-over Serbian Christian cultural heritage monasteries and churches from the Middle Ages in Kosovo, which many of them visit anyway annually on pilgrimage tours and that is protected and guarded as UNSECO cultural heritage sites and that can be easily granted special extra-territorial statuses in Kosovo with constructive negotiations with the Kosovars and not aimed just to obstruct or sabotage the reality of Kosovo statehood functioning, and not willing to deal and accept this demographic issue and reality which was present from the start. I mean what kind of country composition in the world would that be that has an almost 30% non-national majority foreign population in its total population, with its majority only speaking a thoroughly and totally incomprehensible different language family than one spoken by native, domestic population - that is not some large territorially encompassing state federation and not a speck, tiny, minuscule country and people in the back of Europe. Serbia would have to become a truly bilingual country in its political and public sector and domain like Canada then, lol, if there were ever a chance, and there is of course not, for that to ever even have a slight chance to have an appearance of political and cultural functionality. I agree, that Turkey should no longer mess unilaterally as a country with the internationally recognized northern borders of Syria, its cities and provinces, and the effectively autonomous province of Kurds there and in Cyprus with the Greeks if it doesn't want to test the supposed boundaries of its NATO membership immunity, based solely now on them being the second-largest military in the alliance after the U.S. NATO membership effectiveness and usefulness of a country in realpolitik do not automatically follow to grant it a feeling of omnipotence, invulnerability, and a sense of prideful arrogance and feeling of being allowed as a country to do anything with impunity that it wants and believes and feels in its self-interest to be good for it solely and necessary and undermining in the process the shared values, integrity, and principles of the military alliance that itself it purports to be founded upon and based upon, without a risk to be kicked out eventually, when the tables are turned enough and in time when an opportune geopolitical moment or replacement is found for that specific role, if it's abusing it in such a manner for its own narrow, selfish self-interest, dragging with it the rest of the alliance unity and agreements in danger.

My grandfather who was a relatively higher-up officer in the then Yugoslav People's Army Airforce used to own a Zastava M88 semi-automatic 9x19 mm pistol in the apartment I visit and stay in where my grandmother lives as part of his officer's equipment kit when he was still in the military, but then he later had to return it to the army, since as I understood, the new gun ownership and usage for civilian self-defence purposes legislation passed by the new government in Serbia in the 2000-10s required permits, charged some extra ownership fees and maintenance regulations for anyone who wants to retain their, then relatively outdated, old guns they purchased or got from military service in their possession for civilian self-defense usage they then must strictly comply with these permits, regulations and charging fees if they wish to legally retain their gun as a civilian private citizen.

Very dark, non-PC like humor cartoon I found circulating online - I don't know if it will be struck down for inappropriate content on the forum regarding it's policy - but I thought I'd share it since it illustrates the despairing and hopeless cynical interpretation born out of seeming political gridlock around this issue in some U.S. states. God have mercy on the passed away kids - saw their cute faces online, felt disturbed and couldn't not be helped to be also reminded in their innocence of appearance of my 6-year old niece from my aunt's side who will almost also now be going from kindergarten to first-grade elementary school around next year.

Looked it up. It's from 1997 after the Syrian government agreed to put a ban on PKK political operations and activities as legitimate and legal in its own country (btw even the broken agreement only says reserving the right of Turkish military force and operations activities only 5 kilometers deep into the country and not 30 km deep, and it says nothing about occupying indefinitely it as a ''peace corridor''). But since the onset of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, neither Turkey nor the current Syrian central authorities in power abide by it, respect and no longer uphold it, since Turkey and the Turkish military effectively violated Syria's sovereignty in the north by occupying the portion of the country and also logistically and strategically helped, armed and supplied some of the Islamist jihadist portions of the rebels of the ''Free Syrian Army'' also in the north stationed in their stronghold in Idlib, that has now effectively dropped and renounced the Syrian currency in their enclaves and now use Turkish lira - effectively setting up a para-state government entity (''Syrian Salvation Government'') there backed by the current Turkish authorities and government and whose rebel Islamist jihadist fighters are also used by Turkish authorities and military to attack the Kurds and the Kurdish militia in the north of Syria. However, nothing of this excuses military invasion and violence against Kurds in the north who are effectively running their own self-governing autonomous region in Syria. Btw, how is this breaking news video far-right in this specific content, apart from this guy as Syrian being biased towards the current authoritarian central government and the regions it administers currently within the internationally recognized borders of the Republic of Syria with Bashar al-Assad at the helm?

By which privilege does Turkey have a special right, from all other countries in the region, to invade and annex a part of another country's region, citing faux claims of Article 51 of the UN charter for countries' collective right to self-defense against a non-state actor. It's almost no different from Russia's invasion of Ukraine using the excuse of the several thousand recruits of the Azov battalion in the Ukrainian National Guard and its other affiliates in Ukraine, to invade and annex entire parts of its country - it's cynical and it almost always doesn't have anything to do with that own state's domestic, national security reasons or political stability but for the sake of survivability, popularization, and stabilization of an authoritarian regime in a country with the launching a glorious military campaign to pander to the jingoism of its nationalist base on the basis of contemporary ideological irredentist fantasies of strengths, powers and glories of empire past in order to retain their needed support in order to prolong their regime in the country. It's the epitome equivalent of the contemporary version of toxic stage blue consciousness beliefs, values, and thinking using the past as its useful revisionist tool to achieve its cynical short-term regime survivability goals at the cost of the lives of other nationalities and minorities in the surrounding region.

Aren't there still some U.S. troops present in SDF controlled Raqqa to "secure" the oil? From what I see this military invasion plan of SDF controlled northern Syria won't go deep into and encompass areas more to the south detected rich in oil reserves where there supposedly still U.S. military forces present, patrolling and guarding those oil fields. And also areas to the lake basins in the south and east also supposedly rich in crop fields and fertile land controlled by the YPG, but it aims to target and seize those several northern city communities in the north indicated on the map still controlled by SDF Kurdish militia YPG forces.

I would advise and suggest turning on the English subtitles below for better clarity, understanding and comprehension of the narration subject presented in the video. It's a 22 minute long video essay prediction, prognosis and analysis.

@DocWatts Thanks for clarifying more in depth than I previously heard (or was probably euphemistically disinformed by) the explanation behind the background and some of the ideological inspiration of the author of the original novel that came around him in order for him to be inspired to write it in the way that he did. BTW, big props to Verhoeven for doing and getting the studio lisence to do a 180 turn post-modern satirising irony deconstruction of it in order to turn it into a literal parodying of fascist-like ideas in whatever imagined, speculated context they may rise up and be popularized. And the WH40k franchise inspiration sources and origin background explanation seems to be more at cursory layman's glance more good- intentions hearted to make people become more skeptical and take with a dose of irony when approaching some common, in some parts widespread ideas and beliefs about other people and the world and more appreciative of good composed dark humor, satire and irony regarding the creative freedom imagining of the hyperbolizaton of the end game results, paths and dark worlds created in the future as well that unquestioningly following and dearly holding onto and gripping such ideals, ideas, mental projections and beliefs upon the world might lead oneself and his society to - i.e. a literal constantly endlessly self-repeating destructive, miserable, hateful and depressing constant war ravaged hellscape reality ? - I would also take a wild guess that the authors of the said franchise also probably took a lot inspiration in their dark sense of humor and mood they set and created for their world precisely also by Verhoeven's own interpretation of the end results of Heinlein's original imagined sci-fi novel world. Yeah they were/are probably mostly fools for the intentional caricature representation of hypermasculine aesthetics and ideals aspect of the game represented in the games - based on what I saw they mostly unironically praised, lauded, and were putting forward and identifying with (muh Space Marines). (Even though the game I played unironically states several times and subtly implies that every character in it will eventually become nothing more than an expendable cannon fodder in the pointless meat grinder of endless war just for the aesthetic and the laughs if they keep following their comic path of constantly unloading, desiring and wanting to attract destruction and self-destruction with anything and anyone new they approach or face or wherever they go - it was like trying to depict the ultimate skit hyperbole of a comical depiction of self-destructive ideals, beliefs, attitudes, behaviour and eventually path that it leads one to a pointless, stupid laughable premature meme death ?)

Interesting. I knew a bit about the lore beforehand just from playing the earlier first 2000s PC game franchises as a kid/teen, but not about it in depth that it is an equivalent of a comic book universe. Though I first encountered that cringefest of God Emperor Trump [or insert any other personal favorite right-leaning authoritarian political leader] memes and even sculptures participating in festival parades a few years back. It is seems that it went through the same symptom as Starship Troopers movie directed by Paul Verhoeven intended at first at parodying and satirizing fascist ideas manifesting in future imagined societies just in slightly different forms, language and symbols but then it got appropriated and revisioned again by some alt-right con skeptics as being a movie in favor and lauding such ideas by discussing the potential possible future validity of those ideas presented [given their views on the present state of Western society ?] in the movie, by which a society like that can be based around of, by referring to the supposed right libertarian leanings author of the books Robert A. Heinlein the movie was based around of.