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Turkey is building the new artillery shell factory in Mesquite, Texas. Turkey and Erdoğan work for their own narrow interests. They still service Israel, despite all their bluster and the genocide going on in Palestine. Erdoğan's son-in-law owns the shipping company that sends oil from Ceyhan Turkey to Haifa Israel. They sold a large number of drones to Ukraine until the Bayraktar drones no longer worked. The Erdoğan family owns the Bayraktar drone factory.,

Erdoğan is strictly bad news. Russia saved his butt in June 2016 when the US sponsored a coup attempt and Russia warned him just in time. A normal leader would have gratitude, but Erdoğan is some sort of psychopath. The strategic problem for Turkey is that the US has the Gulenist movement as the alternative to Erdoğan, but an optimist can hope that problem is going away. Aside from 100,000 Gulenists being arrested in 2016, the Ukraine serves as a wake-up call. Some Turks are saying they don't want to be the next Ukraine.

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Good-paying jobs for hardworking Americans--err, Turks--@ the shell factory in Mesquite, Texas--!

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And where, precisely, are the raw materials sourced for these "American made" metal shells packed with explosives?

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"Russia saved his butt in June 2016 when the US sponsored a coup attempt and Russia warned him just in time. A normal leader would have gratitude, but Erdoğan is some sort of psychopath"

Once you buy in to the my God is greater than your God answer to all questions, then you must accept that your God persuaded Putin to save you.

Religion is never tempered by rationality nor skepticism.

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