Pyrpolizer wrote:Get Real! wrote:So coming back to the issue at hand...
Is it worth monitoring whether the Turkish Lira is now worth 2 cents or 0.1 of a cent, given the global corruption that drives this planet, the long-time favorable position Turkey has always enjoyed, and the history of rescue packages propping Turkey up time and time again?
I hate to be the party pooper Maximus, but I’ve seen this scenario replayed many times before to be so naïve as to think that Turkey will ever be allowed to "sink"!
To understand the politics of this planet you’ve got to think like an old NATO General who’s had his blinkers glued, stapled and bolted in place, and has no chance of ever removing them.
That old Nato General had a different map in mind.
Today Turkey has absolutely no land frontiers with USSR. What exists today is Russia, and assuming Russia is still a threat while providing the whole Europe with gas, it is already surrounded by other countries like Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine (Oh yes the big apple) Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Let aside the ex Eastern block countries Poland, Romania, etc etc that form a huge 2nd line of defense. Actually back in the old days Iran was far more important to the Americans in containing the USSR and look at it today...
if you think Turkey is going to come out of this decorated and smelling, then you better start thinking who's is doing all this to Turkey? Who is turning it's currency to shit, and for what reason?
Then you may understand that history is not static.
I’ve never stopped monitoring America’s foreign policy… it’s in my face every day anyway as an avid reader of politics.
What I still see happening is that Democrats predominantly hate Russia and that Republicans hate China and whoever comes to power steers the US into more and more hatred and attacks towards that perceived enemy.
As we speak, there is a sudden major instability in Kazakhstan and much is being written (as we speak again) as to the instigators and their aims… and it sounds no different to a leaf taken out of a 1960s or 1970s newspaper.
I'd be the first to welcome change but I'm really not seeing it happening.