Well that was incoherent.

Agreed. What were you trying to say, taylor? Seriously. try again. We'd like to follow your train of thought, but not over a cliff.

@taylor4


“ is the enemy of my enemy or the ally of my ally my enemy etc.?”

Perhaps, and perhaps, etc.

“Mugabe?! An authoritorian state. Defined as ‘one party’, or maybe one Tyrant (in the modern, not the Ancient Greco-Roman sense.”

Indeed, Mugabe is one man and he to a great extent calls the shots.

“Not a ‘Benevolent Dictator’ or monarch.”
Nope, Mugabe is neither of those.

“Lots of them.”

They’re all over the place.

“Papa Doc, the notorious Uganda leader”

Incorrect, Papa Doc was in Haiti. You’ve confused him with Mobutu.

“nobody anywheres near on the Nobel Peace Prize short List”

I wouldn’t be so sure. Kissinger and Obama both have one of those, so it’s pretty much anything goes.

“Putin's Russia acting for its own diplomatic and military advantage:”

I’m sure it’s trying to.

“the naval presence on the Mediterranean supplied by the Syrian port Tarsos ….”

What the fuck do you mean?

Russia (with barfely [oughta be a word, BARFELY ] WELL, barely hegemonic Ukraine nearby has a Naval Flotilla in the Black Sea; a fleet at Archangelsk, useful in summers; a Baltic fleet, and then there's the Mediterranean.
NOT To Be Confused with Tartus in what is Turkish soil, is the Tartos and-or however it's spelled T. port. In Syria.
WHILE There has been some weather-related delay in getting vessels from Cyprus to a Syrian port to remove Syria's chemical weaponry supplies, etc., that operation is not backed with the O-punted USA Congressional joint resolution. It's devolved by default to Putin's Lavrov's Foreign ministry.
Is War not Diplomacy by other means?
Quod Erat Demonstrandum. What the effing I submit.
Sorry about the Haitian mix-up. Heavy drink at the solar New Year & all That.

Forget the orthography. Prose alone is much more difficult.

Russian proverb: Your true poet can get drunk on water.

Who is Global Waming? Is he knew?

idk but the globe could certainly use some waming

RUSSIA: Asian ports: Vladivistock, Sakhalin island.
While the Classic Diplomacy game board does not encompass that area, the 1905 Loss of Port Arthur in the 1904/05 war with Japan can compare with what the Russian navy fears off Syria's coast - the Loss of a refueling point, according to news reports. - For purposes of historical basis of Classic Dip games, that start at 1900 spring season. - In 1890: Heligoland Bight 2 Germany. - Kriegsmarine in WWI goes out 2 Battle/Jutland. - Not going 2 digress 2 the U-boot storey.

WAME

Who's U-boot? Is he knew?

@Draug: A submarine. U-boat a l'anglaise.
But U Gnu that

Did Germans call them u-boots? Unterwasser boot?

Sie hießen unterseebooten.

You must have seen Das Boot at some point, Draug. Everyone has.

Actually, no, I haven't. It is on my list of must sees along with Lawrence of Arabia, but I haven't seen it. Thanks for the proper German, Putin. I didn't think about untersee as I was think underwater not undersea.

@Putin

Is it just me or did you just screw up two out of three there? ;-)

Ow and Happy New Year to all :)

German is SVO for main clauses.
Sie = they; hießen = past tense of to call; Unterseebooten = submarines.

You tell me.

"You’ve confused him with Mobutu."

Mobutu was in Zaire. You're confusing him with Idi Amin.

"
What the fuck do you mean?"

He means Russia's only overseas naval base is in Tartus, Syria.

@ Putin : das Boot => Singular 1 Fall, Nominative ,
des Bootes => S 2 F, Genitive ,
dem Boot => S 3 F, Dativ ,
das Boot => S 4 F, Akkusativ,

die Boote => Plural, 1 F, Nominative ,
der Boote => P, 2 F, Genitive ,
den Booten => P, 3 F, Dativ ,
die Boote => p, 4 F, Akkusativ , also :
Sie hießen Unterseeboote, Plural, Nominativ,
I hope i could help :-)

But why the hiessen and not heissen?

But back to the question we all need answered. Do the Germans shorten it to u-boot?

Ow wait I didn't follow the discussion. Anyways, looks like you got the plural wrong and screwed up by not using a capital U. 2/3 ;-)
But how was New Year's?

More like U-Boot.

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@ redhouse : you are right hießen is past tense and heißen is present tense.

"But why the hiessen and not heissen?"

Because it's past tense...Hence why I said "past tense".

"Anyways, looks like you got the plural wrong and screwed up by not using a capital U. 2/3"

Your counting is funny. How is getting one word wrong 2/3?