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How Russia is Smashing the Turkish Game in Syria

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As for Washington's "strategy", it now boils down to the CIA need of a new rat line. That could imply sitting on the -- weaponized -- sidelines watching Turkmen and Kurds slug it out, thus creating an opening for the Turkish Army to intervene, and the Russian Air Force to prevent it, with all hell guaranteed to break loose.

The fact remains that Sultan Erdogan badly needs a new CIA-secured rat line to weaponize not only his fifth column Turkmen but also Chechens, Uzbeks and Uyghurs. And Bilal Erdogan, a.k.a. Erdogan Mini Me, desperately needs new oil smuggling routes and a couple of new tankers; Russia is watching their every move. The latest news from Russia's Defense Ministry has struck like a volcanic eruption; the Erdogan family mob was branded as "criminals", with Moscow presenting only an appetizer of the all the evidence it has in store.

So we have the Afghan heroin rat line. The Libyan oil racket (now over). The Ukraine fascist rat line. The Libya to Syria weapon rat line. The stolen Syrian oil trade. The northern Syrian rat lines. Let's call them UEBA: Unregulated Exceptionalist Business Activities. What's not to like? There's no business like war business.

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