Posted on 12/09/2014 6:54:41 PM PST by dontreadthis
The latest, spectacular “Exit South Stream, Enter Turk Stream” Pipelinistan gambit will be sending big geopolitical shockwaves all across Eurasia for quite some time. This is what the New Great Game in Eurasia is all about. In a nutshell, a few years ago Russia devised North Stream – fully operational – and South Stream – still a project – to bypass unreliable Ukraine as a gas transit nation. Now Russia devises a new sweet deal with Turkey to bypass the “non-constructive” (Putin’s words) approach of the European Commission (EC) concerning the European “Third Energy Package”, which prohibits one company from controlling the full cycle of extraction, transportation and sale of energy resources.
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The Turks had best be very careful. It has been every Czars dream to control the Bosphorus the Dardenelles and to restore the eastern church in Constantinople
“If one would sup with the Devil, best to bring a long spoon”
I’m with Russia on this one.
Erdogan really is quite the fool. He is casting aside 100 years of progress under Kemalism and will turn Turkey into another Iran.
~Erdogan really is quite the fool. He is casting aside 100 years of progress under Kemalism and will turn Turkey into another Iran.~
How is it any related to the subject? This move is a huge geopolitical and business win for Turkey in the first place.
It is factually appointed an agent to distribute Russian gas in south and Central Europe or elsewhere. It actually gives Turkey a power they have dreamed about for centuries and an opportunity to add a few thousand dollars per capita in GDP. Not to mention enormous leverage over EU.
See my post above. Russia under Putin has become a threat to all of her neighbors. If Turkey falls under Russia’s sway it will gradually disappear as a democratic society.
LOL. When have you been to Turkey last time? You think unrealistically high about ‘democratic society’ there.
All democratic societies are not alike.
Turkey? The ones that let ISIS kill the Kurds while they watched?
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