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Category: Countries
If a president decided to go rogue and wants to nuke a country, what would happen?
Like everyone else said, that’s why you try to have a sane Secretary of Defence. Anon mentioned Nixon during Nam: Anonymous’ answer to If a president decided to go rogue and wants to nuke a country, what would happen? Anon doesn’t mention Nixon during the death throes of his presidency, when Schlessinger his SecDef was […]
Why were consumer goods important symbols of progress for both Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon in the Kitchen Debate?
That is a very good question, Dan. I look forward to many more from you! I’m pleasantly surprised that you’ve asked me, but I’ll run with that. With Ambrose’s biography of Nixon as my guide. The Kitchen Debate was an impromptu kind of affair, that both Nixon and Khruschev had a blast doing. Nixon was […]
Are Turks appropriating European culture?
https://www.quora.com/How-many-Turkish-consider-themselves-as-European/answer/Sinan-Ozeren Greek neighbour here. And hello to my neighbours! “Cultural appropriation.” I don’t think that word means what you think it means. I also happen to think that as a cultural critique, the notion of “cultural appropriation” is so vague, so clumsily wielded, so thoughtlessly conscripted in identity battles, that it deserves to be subverted […]
How did Richard Nixon’s parents react to him becoming President?
As others point out, they were dead by 1968. However Hannah Nixon lived until 1967, and Frank Nixon until 1956. So they saw him Vice-President, and she fretted over how he looked in the Kennedy–Nixon debates. How they reacted to him making Vice-President would be evidence enough of how they would have reacted to him […]
Quorans describe your reaction to the 2016 US elections with an emoji and why?
As noted here: Nick Nicholas’ answer to Why do some questions, answers, and messages on Quora contain figures like this: U0001f60f? Only Plane 0 Unicode emoji will render in the Quora text editor: ⏱ ☃☹☺☻♨⛄⛱✊✋✌ I wish to convey a negative yet hopeful reaction. So: ☹ It’s sad, and ♨⛄Lots of stuff will melt down, […]
What is your favorite city in the world and why?
Vienna. Monumental architecture, cosy atmosphere, livable scale, awash with the history and the ghosts of some of the best culture Europe ever produced. Love love love Vienna. My wife and I both loving Vienna was one of the first things we bonded over when we started going out. (The second was Richard Nixon, God help […]
On this Electoralgeddon evening…
On this Electoralgeddon evening, I think, to my own surprise, of an exchange I had here during the Brexit referendum. I was transfixed here by the arguments during Brexit, the distress of the Remain camp, the snapping back by the Europeans. When the results came out, there was despondency on Quora, and a lot of […]
Regarding the fact that Iranian Azeris are much more than Azeris of Azerbaijan, which group should be considered as the main and central Azeri group?
I will preface this by saying that I am speaking from a position of profound ignorance. As full disclosure, I will now say everything that I know about Azeris. Azerbaijan and Armenia seem to have been on the edge of going to war, for a while now. Azeri sounds to me like Turkish with Persian […]
Do other countries have any equivalents to “states rights”, as in the USA?
Like other reluctant federations, Australia has a constitution that safeguards powers of the states. These have become less attention-grabbing with time; Australians are still parochial about their states, but they’re more excited when that parochialism involves beer brands than legislature. The WWII switcheroo, whereby the Federal Government appropriated all taxation power of the states as […]
How many of you are aware of atrocities done by the Assyrians, Armenians and Kurds in 1918 in Western Azerbaijan?
A2A from Pegah. Same answer as User. I know of the Armenian genocide, and the counterclaims of Armenians massacring Turks. Being Greek, I have been disinclined to research the counterclaims too seriously. I wouldn’t be surprised if the statistics of Azeris killed were conscripted into the statistics of Turks killed. But no, I was not […]