Well, howdy there internet people? Let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about Turkey and the election and NATO and Russia, the EU and what it means for everybody.

We're going to do this because I got a message that was basically like,

hey, why am I seeing more coverage about Turkey's election

than I did about my own state election.

Yeah, that tracks. That tracks. What's happening in Turkey right now is important for the international poker game where everybody's

cheating.

There's a lot of chips at stake in this election. So what's happened over there multiple people

can run but you have to have 50% to actually win. So you have a first election and then there's a runoff election.

They're moving to the runoff now because the current leadership

didn't get 50%.

The current leadership been in power a while. Like most people who have

been in power a while, they become more and more authoritarian. No different, okay?

Over the years, has moved away from NATO, the EU, the Western general, not in any treaty sense but more in just attitude and rhetoric

type of thing. Nobody at State Department would admit this, but I'm pretty sure they're all rooting for the

challenger.

The challenger has indicated they plan to move back towards the EU and NATO.

Current leadership also has a tendency to greatly overestimate the value of Turkey to not just NATO, but really

time

important,

important, not so much today.

not so much today.

And this is something that we've talked about on the channel before Ukraine

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