Duality of Turkiye's Position at the Bosporus

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), May 16, 2022 at 00:41

As the eminent Dr. has elaborated and the evidence has accumulated for decades, the leaders of the Islamic State of Turkiye have demonstrated feigned allegiances when it suited the circumstances and during the 44th American Administrative reign, placating them seemed to be all that the foreign policy makers were able to present, the ultimate circumstance being that Turkiye desired to be the arbiter of things foreign and domestic as it related to Middle Eastern politics. Straight out, NATO participation is extremely contraindicative to any complications of mediating a 'Palestinian' solution when a strengthened NATO (adding Sweden and Finland) would factor in a response if NATO is called upon to defend against a Russian expansion into the Middle East (Syria) through a Black Sea connection that runs right by a Turkiye-controlled entrance into the Mediterranian. Tell us Dr.; is that at all the impossible?

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