“What’s with presuming what US conservatives think about the affair, besides?”
I’m not presuming, I know! I’ve been dealing with “US conservatives” in Washington at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue about this since 1974 and the present crop in Congress is the most pro-Turk, anti-Orthodox Christian I have ever seen, very much a reflection of many here on FR!
And what it has to do with Erdogan and Davotoglu is that they both believe they have the support of the American congressional right wing, especially in their latest depredation, the invasion of Cyprus’ economic zone in the Med which is backed by American oil and gas interests.
Well, how come the two you named (Nixon and Kissinger) are liberals?
You seem paranoid about anti-Orthodox feeling on FR. I get no such sense of it, not even in the religion forum.
And when it comes to Cyprus right now, the big two dangers are Turkey and the European Union, the latter of whom cares only about Cyprus’ strategic value. Pax Americana has been undermined by the liberals, some of which (it seems to me) you are trying to call “conservative” or “right wing” mistakenly. (Please don’t call the GOP establishment “right wing”.)
BTW, “American oil and gas interests”? That’s lib-speak. The main players there are the EU and Russia, frankly.