“Turkmenbashi” - President for life Niyazov, of gas rich Turkmenistan sadly died last yesterday. He brought stability and a sense of reassurance and national identity to the Turkmen people. Very sad.
In case the American military want to know, Turkmenistan is just above and to the right of Eye-ran.
Don’t trick them with that funky spelling, Broon, they’ll get lost for sure. Remember what happened when they attached the crazy Forumosan pinyiniser to that war head heading to Serbia?
That should be I Ran Once, or Iran for sure, which is next to IWrackmybrainsandstillcan’tfindawayoutofthisshitpit. or Iwrack for short.
But he opened the markets, encouraged the movement of capital, even if it was just out of the country and into his Deutsche Bank account. A few dead here and there. . . c’mon. he was on our side!
What would you have preferred, godless communists? We all know what’s lurking down that particualur road. Are you a communist by any chance? Is that not Castor man juice on your chin?
There’s a Shi’i tradition to the effect that the Qa’im (or Mahdi) will come with black flags appear in Khorasan. Now black flags are used in mourning. And Khorasan is modern Turkmenistan!
Interesting - but leaves out the main question - what next for Turkmenistan? There are a lot of possibilites, and it’ll be interesting to see how it all shakes out.