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brad johnson it is the 26th of july
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and yesterday the 25th there were some
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bizarre news it happened really quickly
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as far as i could gather it looked like
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like erdogan in turkey had made a fairly
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classic islamic demand on greece
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surrender territory or go to war and
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greece surprisingly sent
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its fleet out to meet the turks and the
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turks
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turned tail and ran what can you can you
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give us any insight on that
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yeah i mean that’s kind of the yeah this
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was just i think yesterday that all that
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part of it took place but
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this is kind of on the heels of the uh
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sofia which is the
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uh like it’s kind of like the vatican of
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the orthodox
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church that was taken over many many
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years ago by the ottoman empire in that
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from when it was
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constantinople and they converted it to
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a mosque and then back in like the 1920s
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or so
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uh when ada took took took power in
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turkey he made it into a museum and uh
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so now many years later now but
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right around 100 years later now you
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have a current
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turkish president erwan uh has now
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reinstated that as a mosque which of
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course is an
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insult and a an act of essentially
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aggression towards christendom
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at the same time he made his speech
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which
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was the part that was it the reporting
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in the united states in the west was not
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very accurate on it and
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interestingly enough the jerusalem post
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did a report on it that said
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you know here’s what was reported in
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english but that’s not right here’s the
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actual words that he said
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essentially he was saying that he’s
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going to also
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take back the holy places in jerusalem
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which means reconquer
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jerusalem and and essentially spell the
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end of
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of christendom and israel so
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that was kind of the essence of what he
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was pushing for at that speech following
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the
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announcement of haggai sophia right on
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the heels of that also he made another
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speech
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uh where he was saying that and i’ve
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mentioned this before
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from his perspective in turkey
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everything that was ever conquered by
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the ottoman empire
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rightfully is his and so he views
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all of those greek waters as his and the
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fact that the
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greeks are exploiting oil and gas
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and things like that in those areas of
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greek waters is them stealing from him
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that’s the turkish perspective and so
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uh he was very aggressive with this and
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basically came out and said i’m sending
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out the fleet
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and by the way they’ve already done some
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exploratory searching
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in those waters uh which is a
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provocation of course from
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everyone else’s perspective not from
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turkish perspective but
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from everybody else’s and so he said
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either uh you know you either
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be willing to pay the price which of
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course in this case means
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face me militarily or
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enter negotiations either way you’re
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going to lose
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and those waters are ours and so he then
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on the heels of that sent out the fleet
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and as you say
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the greeks had no choice but to send out
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their
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own fleet and uh and when they came in
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to
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to confront the turks the turks turned
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around and went back to turkey
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now that’s an interesting thing in many
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ways he he chose
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uh to make a threat and and it turns out
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to have been a bluff
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now everything that president erdogan
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does out of turkey is not going to end
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up being a bluff
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but in this case it was so that’s
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interesting i think what he was doing
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was testing the resolve of the greeks to
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see if that he could just bluff his way
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into
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it which i would say is uh
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very hitleresque i mean if you look at
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how world war ii
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started hitler would just like go in and
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try to take places
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and was very surprised when nobody
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pushed back so i think what you’re
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seeing is
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is the equivalent of that today on
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on the part of the turks to see just how
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far they can take things before they hit
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opposition so i mean his tents are
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completely clear
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intents are completely clear i would say
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uh president erdogan of turkey
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is uh doesn’t lie about these things i
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think he’s saying what he
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honestly believes that he should and
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will achieve
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and certainly the destruction of israel
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is now on the list
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and the repression or conquering of most
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of christendom is on his list
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and he’s acting accordingly so
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the problem out of all of this is that
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greece
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militarily cannot stand up to turkey
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if it’s any sort of fairly full
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military conflict and
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they’re both part of nato so there’s no
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natural alignment this hasn’t happened
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before
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so there’s no natural alignment here
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where aid is going to come necessarily
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to
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to greece in a conflict with turkey
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france has made some noises uh
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and they’ve pointed out that the the
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drilling that turkey has already done
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in these greek territorial waters is a
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violation of sovereignty and that they
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shouldn’t have done it
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but france you know they don’t you know
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they’re
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while there be a huge support if they
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were to take on turkey
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again both nato nato members i i don’t
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think that’s
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something that france could or would do
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i don’t think macron has the
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political fortitude to do anything of
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that nature so it’s unlikely
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now russia’s in the mix too and i i
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point out that
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russia and turkey are have been in uh
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various levels of conflict for you know
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hundreds of years there’s no surprise
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that they’re in conflict they it doesn’t
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mean they can’t cooperate on issues
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because there
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are things where they have levels of
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cooperation but
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there’s more areas where they have
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conflict
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so of course against your fiance
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orthodox church
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the greeks are orthodox the russians are
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orthodox
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so there is a certain um
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you know camaraderie there if you will
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and russia has made some noise about
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supporting greek
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claims and reactions to all this on the
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part of turkey
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but i again with turkey being a nato
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country i just don’t know how this would
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play out i don’t know how much aid
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russia would send to greece and of
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course russia doesn’t give
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aid without there being strings so uh
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i would now france and russia have
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variously cooperated and
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beated through the years too but this is
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something where potentially
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they could team up and try to do
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something to support greece
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in what appears to be a growing conflict
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but uh
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i would not i i don’t think so and i
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think
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it looks more and more to me like turkey
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there’s no way turkey’s giving up on
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this just
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absolutely not it’s not in erdogan to
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just completely give up on this and go
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away
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and so it’s going to continue to grow as
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a conflict
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will there be a response or is turkey
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going to have its way
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and i think it looks like it’s going to
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go all turkey’s way
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the united states doesn’t have a strong
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position on this they’re not reacting to
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it
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so until unless united states takes a
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position
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i don’t see any other player out there
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that’s going to
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so uh i wish this is something where
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president trump would put this up
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to a higher level on the burner but i
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believe president trump’s been fairly
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clear kind of in his
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general take on these sorts of things
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that those areas have been points of
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contention
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for centuries if not a thousand years
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and so
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he doesn’t like to get involved with
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those sorts of things because it’s going
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to be a never-ending
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conflict so i think he’s hesitant to do
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so which is why we don’t see
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strong policy for that area of the world
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and
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i don’t think you see any other players
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that are fully bound and determined
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besides turkey so i think that’s the way
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we’re going to see this
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play out now just as a general update
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i am with turkey since we’re on the
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subject of turkey
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we’re also seeing something in parallel
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play itself out in libya and this is
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something we’ve much talked about
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because
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part of the justification justification
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for
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turkey doing what it’s doing in greek
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waters is
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uh this this treaty that was signed with
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libya
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and so uh turkey has just has got to
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protect
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the uh the government the government of
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unity it’s called
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in lib in the capital of tripoli and
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um in libya and so they’re they’re bound
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to determine is something i mentioned in
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a previous interview
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they’ve already said that if that they
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will that they’re bringing in
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supplies and that they’re going to treat
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attacks on that government
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as a tax on turkey and will respond
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using turkish military
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uh to to those sorts of things now egypt
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has responded in kind
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i uh uh was speculating that it looked
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like that that would be what egypt’s
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next move would be
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and indeed it has turned out to be so
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and egypt
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has gotten it through parliament that
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they can send troops and men and
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material all that sort of stuff to
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libya and they have said something
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similar that firing on these troops
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would be something where
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uh where they would be responding with
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egyptian
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military units so that’s an interesting
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thing that is a serious
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um step up in the
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the possibility of serious conflict
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where you would have
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uh you know the libyan troops facing off
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against each other but also to the point
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where
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uh egyptian forces and turkish force
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forces could actually in direct conflict
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with each other
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now that’s important there are other
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countries at play basically it’s turkey
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on the one side
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and then some other countries that play
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including russia on the
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on the other side supporting the half
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tar side now
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the eu has the union has recognized
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this government of unity in uh libya
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that’s something that a number of people
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have mentioned
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i don’t think any of that’s particularly
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significant i mean it’s it’s a turkish
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creation and it only exists because of
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turkey if turkey
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were to withdraw it would go away almost
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instantly so
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it is a it is a surrogate of president
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erdogan’s it’s not
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some actual independent government they
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philosophically are in an agreement
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with erdogan or he would not back them
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so yes while it’s true that it’s a u.n
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recognized government i don’t think you
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see a lot of interest
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you’re seeing pushback out of france a
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little bit out of germany uh so you
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there’s the backing out of the eu
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countries i don’t think is there
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and i think you see a lot of people
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revisiting this
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thinking we may be backing the wrong
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horse on this egyptians take
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egypt has taken a very strong position
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and i think in this sort of conflict
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you’ll see the other area most of the
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other many of the other arab countries
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fall in line with the egyptian position
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which by the way egyptian egypt is by
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far the largest
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arab military the largest standing army
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and their position is that turks
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you stay out of arab business and so
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they view libya as part of
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arab business and turkey shouldn’t be a
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player in there so
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i think uh the arab world in general
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and you know they may fall on one side
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or the other but they recognize that
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uh part of turkish intentions and and
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looking again
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at an ottoman type of empire would of
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course include these arab lands and so
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i think some of them are starting to
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look at this with alarm some of them are
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looking at it with some possibilities
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for them perhaps but
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uh all in all i think egypt is a
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reflection of kind of the general mood
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and and why they’re viewing this with
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quite a little bit of alarm and why
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they’re coming in and backing general
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haftar
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and trying to stymie try to stop turkey
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from doing what they’re doing and
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expanding in the area so
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real problem out of all of that when you
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take this grease and libya thing
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all as a whole even though we’ve
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discussed them here as separate issues
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they’re not really they’re all one
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kind of one thing you now have quite a
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few countries
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squaring off against each other and
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it’s getting to the point where these
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countries could then begin
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actually shooting at each other’s troops
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in a
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direct fashion not through surrogate
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countries or surrogate
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militia troops for example and uh
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that was is similar historically to kind
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of what we found
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ourselves in prior to world war one
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there were a lot of opposing groups that
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had kind of faced off against each other
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and all it took was a spark and world
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war one was kicked off which
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i remind everybody i mean most people
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probably remember aware that this is
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what took place but
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it was a single assassination by a
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serbian of
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duke ferdinand when he was in sarajevo
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and
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that one incident then kicked off a
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major world conflict which
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you know was world war one and we’re
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starting to see some
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uh parallels to that and what was also
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lacking in world war one
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was a powerful united states who was
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taking positions on all of these issues
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that cut all of this off and that’s
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similar to what
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we see ourselves and now the united
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states is turned
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inward because of what the democratic
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party and the mainstream media
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and uh and corrupt political officials
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and and law enforcement officials doj
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and fbi and all those corrupt political
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politically corrupt officials have done
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it has taken up
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the the atmosphere out of the room the
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oxygen out of the room in the united
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states
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so that we’re turned inward and looking
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at all of those things and while that
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power vacuum has been created by
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what the democrats are doing this is why
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we’re seeing some of these things play
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out
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if the united states took a strong
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position
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and you know had sat across the table
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from turkey and said
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you know you do this we’ll do that these
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situations wouldn’t be taking place
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but the reason that the united states
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and president trump and the
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administration are not in a position to
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do it
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is part of what we see what the
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democrats are doing this
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idiocy and stupidity on the part of the
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democratic party
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is dangerous and this is one of those
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ways that it’s playing out
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and if that turns into a shooting war
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it’s it’s because the cat’s away and the
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mice are playing
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and the cat’s away because the cat’s got
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to be here paying attention to the
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problems
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here in the united states and it’s a
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horrible pity that
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the the democratic party as a whole
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not i’m not talking about just people
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that are democrats in the united states
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but the political types
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as a whole in the united states cared
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nothing about anyone or anything
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other than trying to take power and that
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is such a dangerous
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thing and this is exactly an example of
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why it’s so dangerous
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to have that stupidity and selfishness
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uh playing out here in the united states
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and
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i i do fear that there’s a very good
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chance now that you’re going to see
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uh the egyptian and turkish troops
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square off and it’s only a question of
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time then until shooting takes place
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back and forth somewhere along that
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those lines and they go go
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wholeheartedly at it and then
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i think you probably see other countries
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become more involved
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and does it spread from there or not you
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know who knows i mean that’s kind of
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like i say
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it’s a fairly similar scenario to how
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uh world war one got started and i don’t
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like that stuff
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this stuff needs to be quashed and we
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need to
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you know the democrats need to back off
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on all this stuff and win or lose the
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election
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you know on the issues
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and do they get through until they win
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whatever
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but to use all these things that they’re
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doing to create such turmoil in the
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united states and
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riots in the street and everything we’re
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seeing in portland all backed by the
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democrats
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uh that stuff is wildly irresponsible
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and if it’s not currently these guys go
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to jail the democratic party as a whole
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has become nothing more than a uh an
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organization that backs criminal
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activity and thereby
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agree or does it have itself just one of
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many dangers that we’re starting to see
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play out around the world
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as the internal pressure is building
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here in the us
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so that’s what i one of the areas where
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i would look at is a real danger
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beginning to develop
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that we should have the opportunity to
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take uh take stronger steps there to cut
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this stuff off before
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before our shooting war takes takes
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place thank you very much brad johnson
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it’s not like china’s doing nothing also
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in the background so
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certainly it’s certainly an important
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absolutely
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