Guest Post by Seymour Hersh
Let’s start with a silly fear but one that does signal the Democratic Party’s growing sense of panic about the 2024 Presidential election. It was expressed to me by someone with excellent party credentials: that Trump could be the Republican nominee and will select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate. The strange duo will then sweep to a huge victory over a stumbling Joe Biden, and also take down many of the party’s House and Senate candidates.
As for real signs of acute Democratic anxiety: Joe Biden got what he needed before the NATO summit this week by somehow turning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inside out and getting him to rebuff Vladimir Putin by announcing that he would support NATO membership for Sweden. The public story for Biden’s face-saving coup was talk about agreeing to sell American F-16 fighter bombers to Turkey.
I have been told a different, secret story about Erdogan’s turnabout: Biden promised that a much-needed $11-13 billion line of credit would be extended to Turkey by the International Monetary Fund. “Biden had to have a victory and Turkey is in acute financial stress,” an official with direct knowledge of the transaction told me. Turkey lost 100,000 people in the earthquake last February, and has four million buildings to rebuild.
“What could be better than Erdogan”—under Biden’s tutelage, the official asked, “finally having seen the light and realizing he is better off with NATO and Western Europe?” Reporters were told, according to the New York Times, that Biden called Erdogan while flying to Europe on Sunday. Biden’s coup, the Times reported, would enable him to say that Putin got “exactly what he did not want: an expanded, more direct NATO alliance.” There was no mention of bribery.
A June analysis by Brad W. Setser of the Council on Foreign Relations, “Turkey’s Increasing Balance Sheet Risks,” said it all in the first two sentences—Erdogan won re-election and “now has to find a way to avoid what appears to be an imminent financial crisis.” The critical fact, Setser writes, is that Turkey “is on the edge of truly running out of usable foreign exchange reserves—and facing a choice between selling its gold, an avoidable default, or swallowing the bitter pill of a complete policy reversal and possibly an IMF program.”
Another key element of the complicated economic issues facing Turkey is that Turkey’s banks have lent so much money to the nation’s central bank that “they cannot honor their domestic dollar deposits, should Turks ever ask for the funds back.” The irony for Russia, and a reason for much anger in the Kremlin, Setser notes, is the rumor that Putin has been providing Russian gas to Erdogan on credit, and not demanding that the state gas importer pay up. Putin’s largesse has been flowing as Ergodan has been selling drones to Ukraine for use in its war against Russia. Turkey has also permitted Ukraine to ship its crops through the Black Sea.
All of this European political and economic double dealing was done openly and in plain sight. Duplicity comes much differently in the United States.
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Trump/Kennedy? I’d bet the house against it. RFK has come down hard on Trump’s lockdown and warp speed and with each passing week more people are waking to the fact the jab was a bioweapon. I think Trump will pick another dish rag like Pense. He’s not one to share the stage.
Kennedy already publicly rejected the idea. I don’t know why people would still put it out there.
Because if it would happen, it’s fun imagine all the ‘splodey heads?
Does it really matter what Turkey asked for? They exist to sit and get bribed because of their position.
“Turkey has also permitted Ukraine to ship its crops through the Black Sea.”
So did Russia. No one is making Russia keep the gas and oil flowing.
I’m getting real tired of this jew and his rumors and unnamed sources.
Who is Meloni getting all googley-eyed over? Biden or is that Orban behind Biden? For God’s sake, sweetie, don’t fucking embarrass yourself by getting weak-kneed just because you’re near the US president. He ain’t shit. She turned out to be another globohomo lackey.
She probably spotted the Jew. She really likes those people.
Gitanis Nausdea. He is 6’4”. A giant compared to the dwarf Zelenskyy.
Kennedy will never partner with Orange Loser</or anyone that
would besmersh his stellar reputation as a respected Environmental Lawyer
known for his achievements via Big Law.
Orange Felon could never expect to have a respected lawyer as his runningmate.
You can't polish a turd. And Trump is an unpolished turd.
Hersh is dreaming in Technicolor as is Kunstler.
MOU
“Pale Blue Dot” by Carl Sagan puts all of this bullshit in perspective.
Carl Sagan is a fucking moron.
We can thank him for the “greenhouse effect” nonsense, which he came up with to explain why Velikovsky was right about Venus being super hot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
Carl Sagan noted that “The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space, but the launching of this ‘bottle’ into the cosmic ‘ocean’ says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”[3]
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The good news: this will never be found by any alien civilization.
The bad news: Sagan’s folly was the equivalent of pre-european native Americans launching messages in bottles into the Atlantic with a message reading,
Gee, thanks Carl.
But for the fact that there was literally zero point in wasting taxpayer resources on your pet project because no one will ever find it; you’d have doomed humanity to extinction with your stupidity.