Well, he doesn’t push around Turkey anymore… So, it’s historic evidence, not legends.

So far they don’t, so “would” is not enough.

I do believe there are smarter ways to break a leg

Explained here: https://lemmy.world/comment/15815089

It is not in the White House that people are dying. In fact, the White House is just going through 2 years of madness that will end at the half-term elections at latest.

The Black Sea is their one and only domestic summer holiday destination… Used to be.

Not something that affects many people. By Moscow standards, several tens of thousands is a few apartment buildings.

News came out that he personally called to stop the construction of a gunpowder facility. We all know that this is a critical resource in the war. https://www.svobodnaevropa.bg/a/33266401.html Now you see how much the presumption is off and how infuriating all this is.

Right now Turkey is the military dominating the Black Sea. The only actual risk for them is if the sea gets demilitarised. They certainly don’t want this.

He declares things like this for ages, yet he informally controls the chief prosecutor’s office (and with this practically the entire legal system) in the country and as a consequence nobody moves a finger. This is not something that any politician on the continent doesn’t know. It is a deliberate and well-informed act. https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-how-it-became-mafia-state-of-eu/ Watch this space, but so far no actual signs.