Erdogan’s belligerence showed through his recent speech as he demands Turkey gets back former Ottoman Empire. Problem is, those areas are not currently part of Turkey. But Erdogan is convinced Allah wants him to conquer and rape and pillage are his will. Germany and France have already pleaded to Trump to step in. This situation is escalating quickly and Erdogan is bent on conquering.
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brad johnson september the 4th of 2020
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and erdogan is if nothing else
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consistent
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and uh memory published a fascinating
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video
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uh with him explaining that it isn’t
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really pillaging and looting
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if it’s done for islam so
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catch us up to date on uh on turkey and
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it’s its
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current state of belligerousness
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belligerousness
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yeah that is an interesting what you
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referred to came out on august 26
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and uh turkish president erdogan gave a
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speech
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at the mensa curt national park in
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turkey which is in
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uh it’s either in or near anatolia
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uh which that was uh
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in uh celebrating or in commemoration of
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the 949th anniversary
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almost a thousand-year-old victory uh
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that the turks had
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against the byzantine empire and that
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was where they
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they took that portion anatolia
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and armenia away from the byzantine
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empire that was their
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victory that consolidated all of that
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under turkish ottoman rule so
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a big victory in the history for those
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guys
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and at that speech the amount of vitrol
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was quite
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interesting and the the take that
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erdogan had on things about
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how when they conquer uh it is the will
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of allah
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and so raping and pillaging it’s not
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raping and pillaging it’s just
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them getting what is their due that was
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sort of the
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the underlying philosophy of his speech
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there remembering this
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great ottoman victory of the past now
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that is where you know carrying that
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forward to today what he’s really
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talking about and by the way he’s like i
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say quite
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blunt in this speech saying you know
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anyone that stands against us will be
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destroyed you know we’re gonna we’re
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gonna take you out
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and then whenever we do whatever it is
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we do to you because you’re a conquered
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people
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it’s good it’s fine it’s what we should
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be doing because you know
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we’re the we’re the last islamic
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civilization on the planet and it’s
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us up up to us to save the world sort of
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thing that’s kind of his point so
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carrying it forward as i was saying what
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you see in greece today
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all those waters as i’ve said many times
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where these natural resources are
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he views as his and this is his
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he believes this stuff it’s not he’s
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saying it to get this or that or the
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other
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he believes those things are his now he
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wants those because he’s an expansionist
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and plans to conquer all of that area
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again and he needs oil and gas and those
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those types of natural resources in
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order to do it
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now kind of some interesting things that
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have developed
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over the last two months this has been
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chugging along behind the scenes
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and we’ve seen for example these
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almost confrontations between the two
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navies of greece and turkey
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turkey’s navy is much larger and more
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powerful than the greek navy not that
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the greeks wouldn’t be able to put up a
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fight but
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in the long run it would be hard for
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them to win what has happened though
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france has
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at least made sounds of committing to
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support
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greek the greek navy with their navy and
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this would be a battle
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as everyone would imagine it would be an
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air and sea battle combination
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and uh if you take the french and the
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greek
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together uh they’re they’re probably a
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solid match with a mild advantage over
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turkey
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when combined and behind the scenes now
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this is interesting too
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france and germany and some other
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countries including some arab countries
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have been contacting president trump
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behind the scenes
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saying you know this is a problem you
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know you’ve got to get turkey under
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control
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help us this is this is this is spinning
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out of control
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uh so far it’s it’s interesting i i
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don’t know what the response on the part
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of
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president trump has been but it’s been
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something the effect of
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you know leave it to me i’m working on
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it sort of thing so the good news out of
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all of that is that president trump is
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aware of it and looking at it and
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thinking about it so
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what comes out of that i don’t know
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don’t have any inside information in
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that sense
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of what the administration plans to do
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uh
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but it’s interesting that this is very
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widely recognized
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in europe and the arab countries
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and we’re seeing uh now egypt makes some
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noises of joining in now if you were to
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see
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uh the the countries of greece
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and france and egypt join up then
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essentially
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uh turkey would be completely
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overwhelmed they wouldn’t have the
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wherewithal to face
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that much of uh you know of an advantage
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in men and material and
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equipment so uh it would be pretty
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one-sided i think then at about that
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point and that’s the noise they’re
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making
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other countries like united arab
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immigrants and people like that
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these guys are all looking and you can
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see it if you look at their news i
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i follow the these news that they put
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out in english
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and and are watching kind of the
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reaction of what they say to these
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things
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that part of the world europe and the uh
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arab countries are
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very worried about turkey they see where
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it’s headed
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and they’re all beginning to line up and
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cooperate
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and worry about it and commit to troops
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and they’re trying to stop it now
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that’s on the one hand erdogan has said
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kind of in some you know possible chance
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for a peace
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agreement of some sort has said that
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he’ll look at some sort of sharing
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arrangement
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but what is a sharing arrangement in his
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definition a sharing arrangement is
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he gets full access to greek waters to
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do whatever he wants
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and greeks can do whatever they want i
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guess and that’s his concept of sharing
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so i don’t see a lot of chants of that
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even though the germans have continued
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to
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come in and out of turkey and greece
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trying to negotiate
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broker some sort of peace deal it
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doesn’t look like it’s headed that way
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this speech that that erdogan gave on
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the 26th
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really kind of lays out his perspective
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very well if you listen to it
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he just doesn’t believe
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that he could or should concede anything
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on any of this stuff
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he views those natural resources as i
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said
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as as his you know as what he needs to
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do and he
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and what he plans to do and conquering
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these regions again
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so uh it’s it’s it’s again i i remain
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at the at the definition of it’s it’s
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it’s no longer uh if it’s when
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and i think this speech reinforced it i
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think that these these countries coming
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back to
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president trump and asking for help all
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reinforces this concept
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everybody sees this going south now
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president trump probably has within his
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power
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to do substantial things to stop
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this from actually turning into a
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shooting war
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don’t know that he’s convinced that he
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wants to do that
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we’ll have to see probably not much is
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going to happen until after election
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because he’s not
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it’s just too risky to make a bold move
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right now before the november elections
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so erdogan probably has that period of
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time to kind of do what he wants
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we’ll see if he’s if he wants to start a
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shooting war
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if he thinks that france who you know do
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they
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live up to their commitments you know
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sometimes
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uh egypt i think they’d be more inclined
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if they said they were going to do it to
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do it
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uh but their economy
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in turkey is bad uh there’s
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there’s a lot of things that sanctions
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that could be done that would cripple
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uh their ability and uh will they make a
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deal they’re they’re flirting a lot with
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iran because of those
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oil resources and they need the oil so
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could they
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turn towards an axis type agreement with
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iran and china or any other countries
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it’s something we’ve speculated about
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it’s possible i think those things are
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certainly being discussed we know
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they’re being discussed with iran
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so uh how it plays out i just it’s just
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it’s barreling towards war we’ll see
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what happens
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oh boy well it’s not like to be the
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first time turkey started major war
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thank you very much
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you
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https://intelreform.org/2020/06/26/france-and-germany-want-turkey-out-of-nato/
https://intelreform.org/2020/06/15/greece-et-al/
https://intelreform.org/2020/03/22/brad-johnson-on-turkey-greece-storm-clouds-on-the-horizon/
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