It is extremely symptomatic that the nation (Turkey) which had fought dozen or so wars with Russia since the late 1700’s and has generally been considered main regional rival to the Russians (except briefly, during the Stalin-Ataturk rapprochement in the mid-to-late 1920s), is now consistently a more friendly and reliable ally of Russia than it is to United States, the nation it practically never warred with (except very, very briefly and on an insignificant scale) with which it was militarily allied since at least 1949…
The United States government should seriously and as a matter of the highest national emergency, analyze what it is about its international behavior that is turning off and away friends and foes alike and transforming them into sworn enemies…
May I respectfully suggest that general dishonesty, duplicity, cynicism and total unreliability of the American officials and casual, nonchalant pragmatism (read: Wild West Gangsterism) of the American foreign policy and blatant in-your-face lack of respect for the rest of the world may be to blame…
Turkey – like the rest of the world – is quickly learning/has learned the invaluable lesson: a reliable enemy is much better than an unreliable friend…
WtR
I tire of people who constantly trill, “You have to work within to change the system”…
MOSCOW—Saying that he had been “totally blindsided” by the revelations from the recently released findings of the Mueller investigation, a shocked Vladimir Putin reportedly came to the realization Tuesday that he didn’t conspire with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign after all. “What the hell? I worked so hard on this—if I wasn’t colluding with the Trump campaign, who the hell was I colluding with?” said the dumbfounded Russian president, growing increasingly angry as he scrolled through his email inbox and recounted his numerous efforts at covert communication with individuals who he had thought were high-ranking Trump officials, but now he suspected were bots or anonymous internet trolls. “Man, it seemed so legit. I can’t believe I let myself get conned like this. I spent so much time emailing back and forth with DonaldTrump46@hotmail.com about compromising the democratic voting process, and now it turns out it was all fake? And we spent so much time gathering all that kompromat on the wrong people. Goddammit, I feel like I’ve wasted my life.” At press time, Putin was frantically double-checking that Russia had assisted in propping up a dictator in Syria and not some other country.
