I've been predicting the imminent demise of the Turkish president for pretty much as long as I've been writing this blog. My record on Erdogan is worse than when I told folks to dump their Apple shares at $400. That was before the 7 for 1 split.
The wily fucker is still making me look like an idiot.
Just when you figure he can't possibly survive the latest imbroglio, he pulls another miracle out of his ass.
Case in point, he just had a marathon one-on-one with Bad Vlad. Even though, in theory at least, Erdogan is one of Washington's bumboys, he does owe his frenemy Putin some major respect, especially since it was Putin who gave him the heads up on the July 2016 coup attempt.
That was where Erdogan's NATO besties thought they'd knife their troublesome ally once and for all and install the much more pliable sultan-in-waiting in his place.
Turkey has been a police state ever since. All that shit about NATO members' shared values goes right out the window when it comes to Turkey. Erdogan gutted the officer corps of his armed forces in a futile attempt to eliminate the Gulenists. Maybe he got them all and maybe he didn't, but the one thing he accomplished for sure is to destroy morale in his military.
He was also left holding the bag when his NATO betters gave up on regime change in Syria.
Now he's a flailing and failing despot lashing out in all directions. But remember; he's still a NATO ally!
Is Erdogan's run nearing its end? Who knows? Don't forget he's holding the US nukes at Incirlik hostage...
Anything could happen.
Erdogan, in his own inimitable way, wishes to share with Israel, Poland, Greece et al,that "Diversity is a strength!" And that "Multiculturalism should be embraced shared and promoted!" Why don't these countries realize that they 'suffer' from a 'lack of diversity!' It's so self evident, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI suppose you could argue that Erdogan is helping to erase Europe's diversity deficit by sending them a few more hundreds of thousands of "refugees."
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