Turkey’s exports of military-linked goods to Russia soar
(Posted JUNE 15, 2017)
"I could go on and on for days so I'll try and make it brief. Suffice it to say sometime in the near future Turkey will leave NATO. This single event will radically alter Geo-political realities in ways I don't think we've seen or are quite prepared to deal with. After the recent coup attempt the military was purged of officers who have worked with the US through NATO and younger more Islamic non-western leaning officers took their place.
Turkey is also likely to be the place where the Anti-Christ comes from. Think about it, what better way to snub your nose at the west and the US in particular than to leave this treaty\organization? Whoever pulls it off will become a rock-star in the Muslim world.
All seven of the letters Christ instructed the Apostle John to write in his vision (the Revelation) were directed to churches which are now located in modern day Turkey. One of those churches was located in Ancient Pergamum and was the center of pagan worship in Asia Minor. Pergamum was also once known as the "place where Satan dwells."
Like I said, I could go on and on but I'll leave it there for now Lucy."
"The effect of this blessing: They shall prophesy; they shall receive new discoveries of divine things, and that not for their own use only, but for the benefit of the church. They shall interpret scripture, and speak of things secret, distant, and future, which by the utmost sagacities of reason, and their natural powers, they could not have any insight into nor foresight of."
Matthew Henry commentary
on Joel 2:28-29
Find the other guy
that said that then...
along with everything else...
Good luck.
Just not gonna happen.
He aint
"out there".
He's right here writing this.
"Growth in shipments of restricted parts fuels western suspicions that Turkish companies are conduit for Moscow"
"Turkey’s exports to Russia of goods vital for Moscow’s war machine have soared this year, heightening concerns among the US and its allies that the country is acting as a conduit for sensitive items from their own manufacturers."
(Chickens come home to roost much for that failed coup attempt?)
"The growing trade, and the corresponding rise in imports to Turkey of 45 civilian materials used by Russia’s military, has undermined US and European attempts to curb Moscow’s ability to equip its armed forces, fuelling tensions between Ankara and its Nato partners."
"In a sign of how it has become a priority in Washington to rein in this trade, Brian Nelson, US Treasury under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, will visit Istanbul and Ankara this week, where he is set to discuss “efforts to prevent, disrupt and investigate trade and financial activity that benefit the Russian effort in its war against Ukraine”.
It will be Nelson’s second trip to Turkey this year and comes amid indications that some dual-use parts — identified by the US and its allies as being of particular value to the war — are being transported directly to Russia even when they have been labelled as going to another country."
"Turkey’s imports of high-priority goods from G7 countries are up more than 60 per cent so far this year compared with the same periods between 2015 and 2021 to nearly $500mn."
“With some of the third-party countries like Turkey, we’re really at a weaker enforcement position than we’d ultimately like to be,” said Kilcrease, a former deputy assistant US trade representative. “We really have to lean on those countries to take enforcement actions in their own jurisdictions, to get at the specific entities that are facilitating the trans-shipment.”
(One Russian official said early on in the war
that the US suffers from:
"Sanctions dementia"
Ask yourself:
Where and when?
Have they ever really worked to their stated aim?)
"Official data from Turkey showed a surge in declarations of exports of high-priority goods to ex-Soviet nations Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, but those countries’ statistical agencies have not recorded a matching rise in imports."
(Odd...
"The dismemberment of the Soviet Union
led to the independence of several countries
that speak Turkic languages, namely:
Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan
and Kyrgyzstan.
Turkiye is now making efforts
to bring them together,
despite disagreements among them."
Thats the same list
(Minus Turkmenistan)
as the countries turkey is trying to bring together.
I wonder why that could be?)
“The US, EU, UK and our G7 partners have made clear that we do not want any of our key partners to become places where our sanctions are circumvented,” James O’Brien, US assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, told reporters on Monday in response to a question about the surge in Turkish exports to Russia. Turkey has “made it more difficult for certain items to transit . . . especially from the United States, but obviously there is always more to do”, he said.
“It is a job that is never done. The Russians are always trying to import more. And it is important that we continue to close doors for Russia otherwise we see more events like this weekend with a very large attack on Kyiv,” O’Brien said in reference to what Ukrainian officials have described as Russia’s largest drone attack to date. “We know that the kinds of goods that support those attacks are things that are imported often from the west or from G7 countries through a few key entrepot countries, so we’d like all that to stop as soon as possible.”
(My dad had a saying...actually he had a few lol...
In regard to:
"...we’d like all that to stop as soon as possible."
So this one goes:
"If if's and buts were candy and nuts
what a wonderful Christmas it would be...
HOWEVER...
)“the US and its partners ...
take enforcement action”
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