https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/05/16/Turkey-s-Erdogan-says-will-not-approve-Sweden-and-Finland-joining-NATO
https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/cumhurbaskani-erdogan-turkiyeye-yaptirim-uygulayanlarin-natoya-girmelerine-evet-demeyiz/2589592
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Erdogan has made his official public announcement that he will veto Finland and Swedens application to join NATO;



Technically his careful phrasing opens the door to Finland/Sweden if they drop sanctions on Turkey and end support for the Kurds, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that

Poland is desperately trying to white-wash it's history banning any historian who dares bring up it's ugly past but that's not reality. Some Poles during WW2 are absolutely responsible for the genocide. That's not to take away from the ones that helped, because many did, but don't try to lie to yourself and others.




https://www.timesofisrael.com/complicity-of-poles-in-the-deaths-of-jews-is-highly-underestimated-scholars-say/

Part of it has to do with the fact that Poles really don't want to give back the wealth that was seized from these Jews.



https://www.dw.com/en/nationalized-jewish-property-warsaws-restitution-problem/a-52156875

I would not call it leeching. the US is very happy to provide these funds.



Spanish police are known in europe for having no nonsense. ultimately I can acknowledge that all parades like this are divisive and ideally no such parades would ever occur but life is full of things that we dont like and we either live with them or do something about it. assaulting a police officer is probably not the first option i would take.

i say this noting that (as ppl know, i am irish) in northern ireland parade season always results in rising tensions, violence etc and if you want to move forward you have to compromise, and rubbing salt in peoples wounds, intentional or not, is not the way to do that, thus my view: no parades for anyone.

ALSO, thank you for translating.



this also happens. refugees are always vulnerable to shit like this. for myself all i can say is, my family is in the process of housing a refugee family from ukraine.



Its probably safer to provide this wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_repressions_of_Polish_citizens_(1939%E2%80%931946) as it gives further background and explains some of the things to which have been thrown at you. note that this link to my mind also supports your view.

This post was edited by ferdia on May 16 2022 12:11pm

and thats the problem with US government

you will not see me disagreeing on this point ok!

And the whole world has to answer right now
Just to tell you once again
Who's bad?

it all goes back to this:



your comments are basically like a brush, claiming ALL Russians, or say, ALL Irish, or say ALL Israeli, or say ALL Americans, are inhuman. When you use broad statements like this, it is naturally going to get under peoples skin. ultimately use whatever terminology you want, but then dont be surprised when people either call you out for it, or flame you in response. I personally, if I was Polish, would have stuck to firmer ground and said something like this:

1. The Russian army Invaded
2. The Russian governemnt treated Poland deplorably (and could provide ample links as proof)
2. Elements of said army commited war crimes (and could provide ample links as proof)
3. Putin is very dangerous
4. Enter something here about LGBT/Siberia/PPL that disagree with Putin and what happens to them (also easily retrievable)

This post was edited by ferdia on May 16 2022 12:22pm

The Warsaw was totally destroyed during the WW2. By nazi Germans and help from Stalin's Russia.
City was like a Mariupol today. Or worse, not sure. In fact Hitler ordered a total demolition of the whole city, as a punishment for uprisings.
Communist government decided they dont move the capital away, dont abandon the ruined city, but nationalize the ruins and rebuild it.
The whole Polish country worked hard to rebuild our capital.
Now, after like 60 years, we are back in EU and western world, and some jewish people came and wanted us to return land with buildings that werent there after the war, or were ruined.
Do you consider that fair? I dont.
Ask the Germans for money, they did the damage, why you dont ask them, yet all the time you jewish guys want money from the poor polish people, that were under occupation for 80% of the last 300years.
300years of robbery, of killing our intelligence and elites.
Also of course we dont even have valid documents about the jewish ownership of this land anymore, as nazists and later communists destroyed them.
So we cant really be sure that a person who comes is a real owner.
The guy can have documents from lets say year 1920, but how do we know that he didnt sell it later or if his documents werent faked?
Its all a big "sorry, no money for you".
Jewish people can be mad at us, but really its not even feasible for a country to give away our capital city.

This post was edited by Ironfister on May 16 2022 12:57pm

Chopsticks2.0
Hows things going mate.
I have some new Geo Political stuff that you might find interesting

Not Russian, Soviet. Soviet regime treated us all the same. Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, Jews. If there were some Irish then I have no doubts they would go to GULAG as "enemies of the people". Socialism means equality.
A week ago Mr Ironfister noted that it was hard to get a pair of boots of proper size in Warsaw and poles have suffered a lot finding a guy to change it. Well, we have to do one step more taking a train to Warsaw, not to mention getting an approval.