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Interesting oped from Peter Koenig

Full Spectrum Dominance in the Anglo-American Great Game

I've been reading about Turkey's currency crisis 'round the net. There seem to be some authors that are confusing correlation with causation.These op/eds put forth the idea that the fundamentals of Turkey's economy are the reason for the currency crisis.   I disagree and suggest that these persons are confusing correlation and causation.Explainer:

Wonder how many people thought about the fact that Chrystia Freeland employed the Trump playbook method allegedly engaging in diplomacy for twits on twitter? As opposed to the reality of a twit's (a silly or foolish person) twittiness on twitter being a distraction from something else. Isn't it interesting that a twit is a silly or foolish person?-Should that definition inform us all about the twitter reality?-The concept behind twitter? -The reason for the creation of twitter?Personally speaking. This row between Saudi Arabia and Canada is a smoke screen.

Was I "wrong" on Imran Khan? It doesn't appear so.The question is: Was the 5/6 eyes media, mainstream and alt, up to their usual tricks?Not my hero. Imran Khan. hattip anonymous commenter-

WSJ

From the comments section of this post: After Pakistan’s Soft Coup- Imran Khan’s Dangerous Victory 

via NPRShamila N. Chaudhary (@ShamilaCh) is senior adviser to the dean at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a fellow at the school's Foreign Policy Institute and senior fellow at New America. She served as director for Pakistan and Afghanistan on the National Security Council during the Obama administration.

I’d started working on this yesterday: Personal matters kept me from finishing.Shocked and flummoxed cannot begin to describe my feeling when reading 5 eyes alt media present Khan's win as  anything remotely close to being a good thing for Pakistan. But then what else to expect from 5 eyes alt media that actually claimed the US backed Kurds were the best fighters against US backed ISIS.??  Or one that suggests another nations government needs to be violently overthrown.

 Authoritarian Gold bugs is a reference to this previous post:

• Russia, Turkey and Other “Authoritarian Gold Bugs”

As reported for years at this blog. The US has been targeting Turkey. Turkish leadership knows this and has taken a number of measures to protect the country.One such example of this move to self defense from potential US attacks is rather obvious in the purchase of the Russian S-400.