{"id":36737,"date":"2018-08-16T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36737"},"modified":"2018-08-16T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:51:34","slug":"always-blame-your-enemy-turkey-is-endangering-the-entire-world-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36737","title":{"rendered":"Always Blame Your Enemy \u2013 Turkey is Endangering the Entire World Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/international-news\/politics\/always-blame-your-enemy\/\">Always Blame Your Enemy \u2013 Turkey is Endangering the Entire World Economy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Erdogan-Pointing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80453 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Erdogan-Pointing.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Erdogan-Pointing.jpg 440w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Erdogan-Pointing-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Erdogan-Pointing-300x380.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMENT:<\/strong> Marty,<\/p>\n<div>On Aug 12\/18 you wrote about \u201cIran and &amp; Turkey Ripe for Revolution?\u201d and in that blog, you mentioned \u2026 They will both turn toward Russia for help and portray their political crisis as a CIA plot.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When watching the news the other night, I noticed this is exactly what Turkey is doing; turning to Russia and blaming the USA (in this case Trump). It\u2019s ridiculous how countries turn to the USA for help but then when the USA doesn\u2019t answer these prayers, these countries demonize the USA. This is akin to praying to God to give you millions of dollars and then when you don\u2019t magically win the lottery, you blame God even though he provided you with opportunities and skills that you ignored.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Once again,<\/div>\n<div>Marty, you called it.<\/div>\n<div>Cheers from Calgary.<\/div>\n<p><strong>REPLY:<\/strong> The real crazy thing is this is so standard, it is not even taking a guess. Erdogan has<a href=\"http:\/\/Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the U.S. that he may look to new allies amid a political conflict between the two nations and an economic crisis battering Turkey's currency. Bloomberg's Bill Faries reports on &quot;Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power.&quot; (Source: Bloomberg)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>threatened<\/strong><\/a> to\u00a0walk into the arms of Russia and Erdogan is simply not someone the West should trust. I have been warning that NATO should absolutely withdraw from Turkey. Until the people overthrow this guy, he should be distanced <strong>RIGHT NOW!!!!!\u00a0<\/strong>He has been against Greece and Israeli. He is by no means of a particular side. He has been fixed on his vision of restoring the Ottoman Empire and he has ruined the economy of Turkey. Erdogan is far more dangerous than any other world leader and the West had better wake up before it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always Blame Your Enemy \u2013 Turkey is Endangering the Entire World Economy COMMENT: Marty, On Aug 12\/18 you wrote about \u201cIran and &amp; Turkey Ripe for Revolution?\u201d and in that blog, you mentioned \u2026 They will both turn toward Russia for help and portray their political crisis as a CIA plot. When watching the news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5496,6608,5479,553,1908,694,818,827,965],"class_list":["post-36737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-enemy","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-nato","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-russia","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36738,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36737\/revisions\/36738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}