Once upon a time #Erdogan & #Turkey was seen as a success story that had 0 problems with its neighbours and great relations with #Israel - to the extent that the pro-Israeli Jewish diaspora were very keen to host Erdogan and collaborate across many issues https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/52400/president-erdogan-meets-with-high-level-businesspeople-in-the-us
Attending the meeting were Citi's Chief Executive Officer for Europe, Middle East & Africa James C. Cowles, Partner at Caxton Associates Jeff Enslin, CEO of Lazard Ken Jacobs, President of Blackstone Hamilton E. Jones, CEO of Warburg Pincus Chip Kaye,
Henry Kissinger, president of WL Ross and Co. Wilbur Ross, Representative of the Secretary-General for the Investments of the Fund Carol Boykin, chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen and his manager Espen Agdestein, James Rothschild of the Rothschild Family.
but a whole load of things went terribly wrong
fast fwd to now and look at what the Mossad is stating in front of UAE collaborators about the risk of Erdogans Turkey
more recently Erdogan is going for it with his ambitions. Erdogans "nuclear itch" and pivot to China is forcing US to consider Incirlik situations
To manage Erdogan Risk you have MBZ MBS in the opposing faction working with the French Greeks and Israelis and this is becoming clearer and clearer by the minute
also we can see the France-UAE relationship work into the East Med - evidently with blessing of the US Israel Abu Dhabi deal
and now the Israel Abu Dhabi US deal is formed and others are joining its definitely escalating a situation and coming to crunchtime. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/the-conspiracy-theory-of-the-uae-israel-agreement-642553 -
its becoming clearer that MBZ is fronting for an MBZ-MBS partnership to shake up the region
with everything in the open it will minus the need for very meticulous and quiet backchannel diplomacy between key interests. Now things will become apparent and things will start to click
As Cyprus Greece get closer to France UAE US Gulfies Israelis etc then you see Qatar trying to throw a spanner in the works probably on behalf of or in some coordination at least with Turkey maybe also Russia
as all this starts to happen we see a US vs Russia diplomatic push into Cyprus
Then we see Qatari Turkish team up against Arab Israeli deal .... followed by problems for Turkey in their economy (again)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/al-jazeera-condemns-aj-fara-registration-order-200916173319684.html ... Given how things are working out for Trump with the Arab-Israeli deal id bet he turns the pressure on Qatar to comply or face consequences
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