Erdogan starts to straighten up
Erdogan is finally figuring out that Russia is the better partner for Turkey.

I don't know why he played both sides for so long. Even after you eliminate ideology and power, the geography and economics are obvious. Turkey has a border with the Russian Empire, if not Russia itself. Turkey has a major gas pipeline from Russia leading to the Mediterranean. The Bosporus is the gateway into the Black Sea, which is Russia's Mediterranean outlet.

Turkey is two oceans away from America, and doesn't touch any American sealanes or pipelines or anything.

We were using Turkey as a forward base for our constant aggressions against Russia, but we weren't giving Turkey much in return. Our Syrian war poured millions of refugees into Turkey, which has been feeding and housing and educating them for years without any compensation.

With all of those permanent and temporary factors, the choice should have been immediately obvious.

Erdogan is still stupid on economics. He continues to force Goldman-style policies which harm everyone except Goldman. Since Turkey doesn't have any members of the Goldman tribe, there is nobody in Turkey who benefits from low interest and high exchange rates. Turkey has a strong manufacturing sector which is directly harmed by high exchange rates.

Erdogan should learn from Russia's head central banker Elvira Nabiullina, who comes from a Tatar family, linguistically and ethnically close to Turks. [Most Tatars are Muslims, but I can't tell from online sources if Nabiullina's family is Muslim.] Nabiullina has done the HARD WORK of cleaning up the damage done by Soros in the '90s and restoring Russia's economy to proper Russian/Soviet form, with low debt and strong productivity. She's not afraid of high interest rates because she understands BASIC FUCKING ECONOMICS. So far she has made all the right moves for God's side, which is absolutely unique among central bankers. All other central bankers are 100% Satan.

Semi-relevant sidenote: Nabiullina is also the only banking or treasury official in all of history whose face would make a coin more pleasant instead of more repulsive.

Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law, Turkey

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