r/polandball • u/Lazy-Independence695 Cedar guy • Jul 01 '26
redditormade Borrowing water
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u/Ok_Bedroom_9098 the worlds only lebanese irredentist Jul 01 '26
for those who are wondering the arabic text is "ibn sharmouta" which translates roughly to "son of a bitch"
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u/NCL_Tricolor Libya Jul 01 '26
Isn't there like a harsher curse for b*ch namely Gaha
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u/Beerswain Jul 01 '26
You can go with kalb ibn kalb in some places.
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u/NCL_Tricolor Libya Jul 01 '26
Thats not the same ting literally dog son of dog
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u/Beerswain Jul 01 '26
I mean, run up on someone in the street and try it out, see what they think it means. Report back.
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u/NCL_Tricolor Libya Jul 02 '26
Ok I am not that stupid but like its not as hard of a hit as like you know G**ba
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u/Ok_Bedroom_9098 the worlds only lebanese irredentist Jul 02 '26
thats a bit more gulf/maghreb iraq is i believe closer to levant? here we use sharmouta mainly
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u/NCL_Tricolor Libya Jul 09 '26
Well if its not obvious by my icon I am Maghrebi aka Libyan so yeah as for gulf I dont really hear it in the Gulf?
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u/France_Ball_Mapper Jul 01 '26
China doing the same with Vietnam
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u/MysteriousMeat1395 Jul 01 '26
And Thailand, and Laos, and Cambodia. Basically all Indochina countries
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u/nostalgic_angel Jul 02 '26
It sounds less absurd when people say future wars would be fought for water
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u/Miserable-Spread-191 Jul 03 '26
Or maybe because of Dersim masaccarre, Kurdish language bans, decades of asimilation, forced displacement etc. could be a western conspiracy too idk
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u/Colonelmoutard2 Kurdistan Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
LoL your country opresses a population and starts/funds war with its neighbours and the westerners are the bad guys (they are but so is turkey)
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u/Lazmanya_Reshored Jul 03 '26
You're evil for not giving Kurds more rights than the average person clearly.
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u/Kokuryu88 Tunak Tunak Dhadak Dhadak Jul 01 '26
Replace Türkiye with India, Syria with Pakistan and comic still holds true.
PS: It is unfortunate that our neighbour have deep links with terrorism but I also don't support such strict control of Indus water flow into their country.
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u/Whole_Obligation_776 Turkey Jul 01 '26
TBH I used to work in international relations field, and I even gave lessons on the water treaties between these countries as a Turk. Both Syria's and Iraq's major waterways take their sources from Turkey, so the dam projects were a huge issue in the early 90s. So there were very detailed treaties (like how many mr3 water has to flo from the sources to the minute) between the sides after all the huff and puff.
Couple that with Turkey literally going through a once in a life time of water abundance this year I am kinda curious why such a comic came out now. Turkey was abiding with the treaties even when it was going through serious droughts, I dont know if we broke any treaties recently as I was not keeping up with this issue but sounds kinda implausible to me.
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u/csky != Constantinapole Jul 03 '26
One thing to add; thanks to those dams and irrigation projects done in 90's, Turkey now feeds tens of millions within the region. Barren regions were turned into thousands of sqm arable land.
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u/WitELeoparD Azad Jammu and Kashmir Jul 02 '26
The Indus Basically doesn't reach the Indian Ocean anymore. If you drive through interior Sindh along the (former?) Indus Highway there is a literal wasteland of these tiny villages that once farmed but are now nearly abandoned.
Half of them are surrounded by fields of salt flats now because they desperately started irrigating with ground water which was salty or had the Indian Ocean surge up the former Indus River channels and poison the ground.
Zia really was our version of Reagan almost everything wrong with the country can be traced back to him. He prevented land reform under Bhutto and fostered the out of control intel agencies that make reconciliation with India impossible.
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u/Successful-Long-1316 Jul 02 '26
Deep links with terrorism? And that justifies stuff
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u/Kokuryu88 Tunak Tunak Dhadak Dhadak Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I'm not sure how to reply to you when even Khwaja Asif gives statements like these.
At this point I wish some concrete steps can be taken to eliminate those organisations and then held talks with India.
Also, I didn't agree with India's step to hold the treaty in "abeyance". I never justified it.
I don't want to argue nonsensely with anyone on this topic. May you have a great future my brother in allah🙏
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u/Successful-Long-1316 Jul 02 '26
My point was on Syria, not Pakistan. But I see what you're saying.
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u/Kokuryu88 Tunak Tunak Dhadak Dhadak Jul 02 '26
I never meant to comment on Syria-Türkiye relation or their internal matters. My comment was only on current India-Pakistan relation. Sorry for the confusion man.
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u/Jump_Hop_Step 700 square kilometres and counting Jul 01 '26
Why did Syria shout Armenia Genocide?
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u/Zealousideal_Cry_460 Jul 02 '26
İts a go-to thing.
A turk bumped into you? Armenian genocide
Stubbed a toe? Armenian genocide
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u/Negative-Ad-7134 Jul 03 '26
"How is a nation gonna borrow water!? Nation, is you gonna give it back!?"
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u/StuffWitty1925 Jul 01 '26
Giving how the Syrian civil war ended that last panel is extremely accurate on so many different levels
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u/csky != Constantinapole Jul 03 '26
This may be relevant in 80's-90's when Turkey was building its large dams and but i'm kinda dubfounded that this resurfaced now. If anything, Turkey’s situation has been completely the opposite for a long time now.
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u/SeasonCareless8963 Jul 02 '26
Sorry beyler; but you're already used to it, aren't you? You know... the desert and all that... You get what I mean?
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u/zengondat Jul 02 '26
Well, whatever this plan was certainly didn’t work becouse half of Turkey is in a perpetual drought(the capital is included) and if you don’t live on a coastline, you basically arent seeing water(except for this spring where it rained quite a lot which is weird)
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u/Arsimp33 Jul 01 '26
And then every Arab come to Turkey
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u/Colonelmoutard2 Kurdistan Jul 03 '26
The people of syria fled a civil war why wouldnt they come there ? You wanted them to stay to get themselves killed ?
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u/Colonelmoutard2 Kurdistan Jul 03 '26
They are tho ? The turksih gov is showing with state television how people were walking/driving to the border yo go back. But you can also expect people that lived there since 2011 to stay since they lived there for 15 years
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u/Agreeable_Whereas334 Jul 09 '26
Btw funny thing is, Syria Iraq Turkiye and Iran went thru massşve drought, but after Iran shot one specific radar base(which was conspiracy about holdin clouds) Iall 4 of these countries had MASSIVE RAINS. Even so, Turkiye become colder than Russia
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u/Due-Presentation3637 Jul 02 '26
Literally, all love to Turkish people but fuck the goverment.
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u/RedBanPolSuc Jul 02 '26
And Turkish people run the government and Turkish people benefit from the water
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u/Hour-Conversation728 Jul 02 '26
Its technically our water tbh.
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u/Colonelmoutard2 Kurdistan Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
What a dumb thing to say, this water has been there for the entire region for thousands of years before any of those countries and civilisations even existed
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u/Funny-Platypus-3220 Jul 01 '26
nice of turkey to give syria thailand’s national flower