Erdogan has expressed STRONG INTEREST in Turkish MEMBERSHIP in the emerging BRICS organization of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS just agreed to create a major alternative to Washington’s IMF and World Bank to finance infrastructure and other projects in the emerging markets, independent of severe Washington conditionalities that historically acted as a covert neo-colonial wedge to force emerging economies to open to major US and EU multinationals and banks. All this adds up to a potential significant GEOPOLITICAL SHIFT to Turkey, a country that Washington lured into NATO along with Greece in 1952. Over the past sixty some years Turkey was not only a NATO watchpost to spy on the Soviet Union and later Russia. Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991 NATO and especially the CIA and US State Department have worked to use Turkey, especially via the CIA-run “former Imam, Fetullah Gülen, now in exile in Saylorsburg Pennsylvania, to organize fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist organizations in Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Chechnya and other Islamic regions of the former Soviet Union. A shift by Erdogan, who has had a bloody falling out with Gülen and Gülen’s powerful bloc within Turkish police and court system, could deal the Washington neoconservative warhawks a major blow in their current drive to foment conflict across the Middle East, Eurasia and beyond. Since the British manipulated the 1850’s Crimean War to foster tensions between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Turkish empire, it has been Anglo-American policy to keep the geopolitically strategic Turkey an enemy of Russia. That era may soon end. journal-neo.org/2014/08/23/turkey-s-erdogan-comes-closer-to-russia/
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:33:04 +0000
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