[lbo-talk] Multipolar Geopolitics and the Middle East

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 19:13:37 PDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Gar Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM,  <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
>> They can't be bullied, nor are they  susceptible to pressure by a US Empire bogged down in economic crisis and  failed colonial wars.
>
> I certainly hope you are right, but I have a certain skepticism about
> any but the largest of nations being immune to bullying.  Turkey does
> not look to me to quite have the military or economic might that would
> make it immune to bullying. But I certainly hope I'm wrong and you are
> right on this.

Mostly I'm baffled why Turkey appears to be doing what it's doing.

-- Andy



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