> Turkey does
> not look to me to quite have the military or economic might that would
> make it immune to bullying.
Indeed not. But as client states go, which is more useful to the global hegemon -- Turkey or Israel? Naively, I tend to think it's Turkey, by any kind of objective, cold-blooded, imperial-rational standard. Still, of course, it's not at all clear that empires are really so very rational.
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