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Raison d'État on Nostr: I am reminded of WW1-era Turkey, whose cabinet ministers were taking bribes from ...

I am reminded of WW1-era Turkey, whose cabinet ministers were taking bribes from multiple foreign governments to get their men killed, and almost ended up on the Allied side instead of the Entente's.

Ergodan is if anything more treacherous, self-dealing and two-faced than Enver Pasha, while the Pakistani and Sa'udi regimes are abject lickers of any boot with the Stars and Stripes on it.

This is Trump spinning off some toxic assets into a new corporate structure, and (he hopes) getting somebody else to pay for the IPO.