What’s going on in Turkey?

Update on Turkey

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brad johnson december 16th 2020
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and there is geopolitics to discuss the
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usual actors turkey russia
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and i know nothing of where you’re going
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so
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please just take it away okay well kind
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of the latest
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provocation that’s kind of setting
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certain events in motion was that
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turkey sometime back was started
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purchasing
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russian equipment the s-400s it’s a
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surface-to-air missile
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uh that that turkey purchased
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that isn’t something that can be
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integrated with
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nato and since turkey is a member of
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nato with the united states
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and russia is like on the opposite side
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of that
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uh it makes no sense for turkey to buy
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these and not that it’s not a
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worthwhile weapons platform or something
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like that but it’s
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not integratable and doesn’t work in
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conjunction and
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also there could be uh you know russia
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could leave software in there that
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backdoor connections to get in where
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they could screw that whole system up if
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it’s ever
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tried to be used against excuse me
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russian equipment
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so it’s one of those things that does
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not make sense and turkey was warned
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over and over about it
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but they were most insistent and i mean
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let’s face it turkey has been
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now trying to uh kind of go down its own
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road for quite some time
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and its interests and so on have
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diverged from nato
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and at one point they were trying to
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become part of uh the
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eu and because of their human rights
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records and problems
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that’s just dead on arrival now it’s
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completely off the
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off the plate for consideration and
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they’re just as they diverge
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because of their long-term interests
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turkey views itself this is
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something we’ve talked about quite a
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little bit but turkish president erdogan
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views himself as the future
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reinstatement of the ottoman empire so
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the neo-ottoman empire
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so essentially that’s what he’s after
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and all of the things that he’s been
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doing
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go to support it and his when he has
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state visitors over
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you know he shows a big ottoman arm and
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has gone to doing things like
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reintroducing
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ottoman terms back into modern day
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turkish things like that
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it’s a clear goal of his there’s not a
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lot of debate
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over that i haven’t heard anyone really
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come out and detract and say no that’s
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not what’s happening
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they may like it or they may hate it but
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everybody kind of agrees that’s what’s
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going on
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so this is part of that divergence
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that’s going on that i’ve been warning
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about for a long time
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and uh once they’ve done that the u.s
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threatened to
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impose sanctions which they have now
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done turkey has been saying you know if
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you try that it’s not going to work you
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know we’re you know we’re too great as
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strong a country and
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we’re we’re as strong on the field as we
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are in the
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you know on the negotiating table and
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that’s sort of their take on this what
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they’re planning to do right now
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of course is wait for a biden
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administration which they figure will
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is not going to have the wherewithal the
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testicular fortitude to stand up to them
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so i think that’s what they can
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reasonably expect also out of biden i
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would say that’s a good
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tactical choice on their part just hang
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on let the trump people who are willing
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to stand up to them and
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get uh thrown out and then go after go
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after biden and i think biden will get
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weak kneed right away and
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kind of take away the sanctions and let
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turkey go on doing what they’re
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they’re going to do an unfortunate thing
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that turkey’s going to be
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turned loose to start trying to
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re-conquer all of the countries around
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them and certainly we’ve seen them be
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very aggressive in a number of areas
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azerbaijan
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greece different countries around now in
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conjunction with this there’s a lot of
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things going on between russia and
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turkey russia and turkey are kind of
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frienemies is the term i’ve been using
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with it because while the
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uh russians are selling equipment to the
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turks to get the money
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there’s also other things going on where
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they’re kind of
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fighting over things like ukraine uh
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turkey’s definitely pushing back
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kind of supporting ukraine against
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russia for the annexation of uh
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of a part of ukraine there an industrial
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region of ukraine
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and so uh the russians are reacting also
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at the same time under this sort of
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large stimulus that’s going on and they
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just moved one of their fleets out into
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the mediterranean now
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they have their black sea fleet but that
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has come out into the mediterranean
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and the news reporting on it is
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basically stupid what the
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news reporting is going is the u.s navy
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is going oh my god
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the russians they’re in the
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mediterranean so i mean that’s
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moronic the navy would have known they
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were coming
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for a long long time they wouldn’t have
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been surprised in any way shape or form
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as soon as that uh fleet was preparing
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to sail leaving its port
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the navy would have seen all the signs
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of that seen the supplies being brought
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on ships
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loaded up and all taking off together
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and they would have been able to
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almost immediately identify where these
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guys were headed so
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to suggest that this is a surprise to
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the us navy
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like i said that’s that’s actually
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really stupid so
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uh why are they out there and this isn’t
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even the first time
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probably four or five months ago we also
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talked about here
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how the russian navy was off the coast
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of libya and they had i think six or
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eight ships there
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a smallish fleet but a fleet off the
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coast of
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libya and that’s this area where turkey
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is confronting essentially russia on the
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one hand
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and egypt in particular on the other uh
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for their own ends they’re planning on
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taking over
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completely libya using the government
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that’s there that’s kind of a puppet
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for for turkey right now and uh
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using the port agreements that they have
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to uh
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to control large swaths of the the
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mediterranean sea there which also
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concludes includes greece
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so it just goes back to what they’re
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after now like i said you have russia
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kind of standing up for it making a show
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of force in the mediterranean
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which i don’t know if anybody had asked
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me four months ago or five months ago
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would would russia send another fleet
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out to sail around perhaps off the coast
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of libya around the mediterranean
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as a sure force i’d have said yeah
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no-brainer so again i go back to the
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the what little news coverage there is
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here on the u.s and go my god these
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people are morons they don’t know
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anything at all
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you get better reporting on it from here
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than and all the rest of the
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mainstream media including fox these
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days so uh that’s what’s going on now
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uh this is uh heating up
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but i think what’s going to happen under
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uh is if the biden administration does
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indeed come in in
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january what you’re going to see is
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turkey put the screws to the biden
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administration right away
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they’re going to be weak need and buckle
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and so you’re going to see
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a momentary reduction in tension
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but behind this it’s going to get much
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much much much worse
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turkey’s getting really emboldened to go
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ahead and you’re going to see that play
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out in lebanon
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libya in greece and like you say entire
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region around
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turkey is going to become a much hotter
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zone and this puts more storm clouds on
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the horizon unfortunately something that
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we do not need you think that
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turkey wanted the s-400s in order to
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be able to take down israeli aircraft
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um certainly that would have been a
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consideration there’s no question
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whatsoever
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and they’ll be able to forward this out
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into these areas where they’re fighting
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so it was a weapons platform that’s
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really of use to them
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of course on the negative side being
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sanctioned like that
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they’re not going to be able to get the
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updated
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excuse me the updated uh us fighter the
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nato fighter which is the f-35
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so that’s actually a big deal that’s
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that
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gives them air superiority uh aircraft
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and the ground-to-air anti-israeli
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aircraft
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i i don’t i don’t know i mean maybe they
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thought it would be easier to get away
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with that
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shooting down an israeli aircraft or
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putting it in areas where they could use
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it to shoot down israeli aircraft
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uh is is a higher priority than having
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the air superiority aircraft of the f-35
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which is
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that’s a that’s a very effective
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aircraft i mean i i’ve
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only heard you know really really good
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stuff about that aircraft
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so uh i think what they were
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probably keeping in mind is that to use
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a us-supplied aircraft
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to like shoot down a what is considered
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an ally of the united states
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if if it were to be used to target uh
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israeli aircraft that would be a
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a big deal and there’s a lot of
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sanctions that you’re using this
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equipment to do stuff
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that you’re not supposed to do like
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attack another uh nato country like
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greece for example
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things like that so i think that’s part
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of why
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turkey wanted these is because it gives
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them more freedom to use the s 400 in
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areas where they where they want to do
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stuff that
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the us is not going to agree to so i
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think that’s part of their long-term
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strategic planning yes and under abiding
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presidency
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the consequences for attacking an
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israeli aircraft would probably be much
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lower
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thank you very much brad johnson for
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that update and we’ll be back shortly on
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another subject
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you
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