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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK
If I was a potentate and wanted to curry favor, I would allow the Cursed Infidel Dog Turistas some slack so as to sway their leaders to vote my way at the UN and/or EU/NATO.
Many would see Turkey's aggressive activity as a win win. Muzzies shooting Muzzies. How can you lose..
Look at how "HELPFUL" Turkey was with the Golf War. I know, Wikipedia is not the best quotable source, but the gist of the topic is useful..
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I don't underestimate the potential value to Turkey of leveraging it's ANZAC Day hospitality towards certain Commonwealth countries.
Countries have interests, not friends or allies…..so I can imagine the pressure on some governments on certain issues from Turkey could potentially prove problematic.
Turkey is at the epicentre or on the periphery of a whole mess of major geopolitical storms……in the recent past, today, and for the foreseeable future.
I just hope the country chooses wisely and doesn't completely stuff it all up.
But then Turkey has slaughtered Armenians, battled literally with the Kurds, battled figuratively with the Greeks, and invaded Cyprus.
Maybe Turkey is, in a way, echoing it's role in WWII as one of the main centres of gravity for the likes of the OSS and intrigue/espionage/subterfuge, but "reimagined" for the 21st Century?
Except now instead of being a grey battlefield between Nazi Germany, the US/UK and the Soviet Union it's a grey battleground between Russia, Western Europe, US, Iran, Iran influenced Iraq, Iran influenced Syria, Kurds, Israel, Kablamistani pipelines, nuclear proliferation, the decline of secularism in Turkey, the next chapter of the GFC are to give Turkey a kick to the crotch…..did I miss anything?