Turkey continues to play us. We can land there but only by paying through the nose. And that payment rises each time. When the time comes, Russia will slip them a few extra rubles and they’ll immediately turn their backs on the US.
Rubles are worthless. Russia is in economic trouble
The money Could come from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but Erdogan refuses the attached strings.
He is somehow muddling through with a 70%+ inflation rate