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Sunday, 12 January 2025

Sunday, January 12/2025

 


Well hypocrisy hardly covers it as the bottom line is so clearly mercenary. So Türkiye President Erdoğan, always happy to take two incompatible positions if there’s something in it for him, made loud noises about cutting diplomatic and economic ties with Israel last October but crossed his fingers behind his back. So Türkiye continues to ship Azerbaijan oil down to Haifa. The ships cite a false destination and repeatedly turn off AIS tracking. But they pass between Cyprus and Syria in a channel that is only about 125 km wide in places. Pretty well equivalent to the Mediterranean long distance swim record. 




And were we to look northeast off the coast of our other country, Canada, there is politics responding to equally naked mercenary motives, as Vice President elect Vance unabashedly admits that the Trump government desire to take over Greenland is for its natural resources. Why bother with a cover story?