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Moving From Blackmail to Extortion - Turkiye's Ambitions Taking on a Hardened Stance as the Timing for Advancement Approaches

Reader comment on item: Turkey's Stance on NATO Expansion Is "Blackmail"
in response to reader comment: Turkiye's Ambitions Fully Revealed - Satiated

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Aug 13, 2022 at 01:55

The longer the theaters of incursions in the Ukraine and Syria continue to fester the innate desires of empire on the part of the invading parties, the appearance of any relief any time soon dissipates and replacement clouds of expended munitions seen in satellite imagery over cratered military sites seems to indicate that all fronts are still intending to exttract their desired results. Who will pay?
Certainly, billions of dollars in United States support is rushing into the Ukraine, but what of the status of American support in Syria and Iraq as those issues fester even deeper and little in the way of achieving peace is seen. It's Afghanistan all over again, is it not(?); and where are the true American interests there?
A misunderstood mistake has been made there; how long before it becomes irretrievable and the American taxpayer foots even a bigger cost no one approved to be spent except those who lied for their avarice.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
Does Turkiye Fear Sweden and Findland for Becoming NATO More than Russia? Or is Turkish Membership the Real Liability? [218 words]M ToveyMay 19, 2022 10:34281454
Erdoğan's Latest Play Blocking NATO Expansion Plays Into Russian Gambit - Wreckless Endangerment to Follow [230 words]M ToveyMay 26, 2022 10:35281454
Kurds. [46 words]Albert E.May 30, 2022 22:38281454
1Turkey in NATO [116 words]PrashantMay 31, 2022 16:42281454
Remembering Turkiye Today is NOT Attaturk's Turkey of Yesterday [172 words]M ToveyJun 1, 2022 10:02281454
In Further Recognition of Turkiye's Emulation of Russian Incursions [280 words]M ToveyJun 9, 2022 00:54281454
Turkiye's Ambitions Fully Revealed - Satiated [159 words]M ToveyJun 29, 2022 17:42281454
The Russian; the Ottoman; the Iranian; As Dr. Pipes Presupposes: What does it Mean That China Hides in the Wings? [188 words]M ToveyJul 12, 2022 19:46281454
Moving From Blackmail to Extortion - Turkiye's Ambitions Taking on a Hardened Stance as the Timing for Advancement Approaches [158 words]M ToveyAug 13, 2022 01:55281454
Turkiye's Timing Examined - Fortuitous or Foreboding - Objectives Not Met Not Expected to be Forfeited [176 words]M ToveySep 22, 2022 11:05281454
Duality of Turkiye's Position at the Bosporus [143 words]M ToveyMay 16, 2022 00:41281275
1Expulsion from NATO may have to wait [92 words]DaveMay 15, 2022 19:26281265
don't hold your breath [140 words]DavidMay 15, 2022 18:58281263

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