“Friend Or Foe?” - Turkey Joins BRICS: U.S. Faces CRISIS With NATO Ally’s Bold Move

turkey bids to join bricks which by the way kind of weird right and NATO and all this stuff but turkey bids to join bricks in push to build alliances Beyond uh uh uh West and that's a Bloomberg story turkey has formerly applied to join bricks with President eron's Administration viewing the geopolitical center of gravity as shifting away from the West the decision is driven by frustrations over turkey's stalled EU membership uh bit and strained relations with NATO allies particularly with after maintaining close to Russia post Ukraine Invasion erdogan stated that turkey must improve its relations with East and US simultaneously seeing bricks membership as a way to boost economic ties with Russia and China and potentially becoming a help for gas exports between the EU and Asia turkey's application follows bricks recent expansion and which added Iran the UAE Ethiopia and Egypt to the list uh Vinnie thoughts on the story um wait wait Pat which one was this one turkey deciding to join bricks I I don't I I listen the the story that I had with the was the two Navy guys did you see that one that's the okay here it says that talk about we can talk we can talk about this as well Tom I'll come to you first so what are your thoughts about this year them wanting to join uh bricks while they're part of NATO um number one they have always been kind of the back of the line with NATO except one thing they get tons of money and arms from the US because we've got some big time strategic bases there you look where turkey is in the world we've got some very strategic bases there number one but on the other hand they have been dying to get into EU for economic reasons because remember EU has two sides to it you basically have Germany and France large powerful economies and everybody else getting subsidized and that's why you hear the Germans always getting upset if you put one more you know second rate country in here and I have to do the welfare program for it I'm GNA kill somebody and so that's where that's where Germany is that the EU has not worked out for Germany because they've been footing the bill for these other countries well turkey has got a labor base and it's got things but it's not exactly a manufacturing power like like Germany or France so the people in the EU been yeah maybe turkey you stay outside the Velvet Rope we want to trade with you we'll have treaties with you but we're not sure you're going to come in here and get the EU currency and everything that goes with it and they're sitting there well this is really pissing me off I really you know I want some friends well Brazil you know Russia China India they are looking around for friends and they've got energy they have trading partners and so they're like all right I'll still be NATO but maybe I'm going to go talk to my to the bricks people who want to play nice economy games with me it's that I think it's that simple and then all the subtext in there about who's got NATO bases United States but you still get money from the United States I think that's what's going on and it's it's got everybody thinking you know maybe we got to do something on the CU thing because we don't want them walking down the street too much and um so that's it's kind of a little bit of a pretzel in the middle of this but it's significant because of where they're located look turkey is one of the most important regions and arguably countries in the world just because the way they're positioned and who they are uh culturally politically diplomatically you know they're called what the gateway to Europe so they're the one country massive country by the way uh I think they have the most powerful uh military possibly even economy in the Middle East they're a major player now if you go to I mean just look at Ukraine you know there's parts of you know Far Eastern Ukraine that identify more with Russia then there's part the Western Ukraine identifies more with Europe well that's Amplified even more in Turkey because Turkey Istanbul which was formerly Constantinople a massive you know part of the Ottoman Empire what does that border that bord what Bulgaria uh Romania it's it's it's Europe so then you have uh anara which I believe is the capital uh fact check me anara is more Muslim it's right next to Syria which is right next to uh Armenia and azerbijan and everything that you know on there look the thing with turkey is they're are they a friend are they a foe are they a partner are they an enemy it really all depends on who you ask and what the issue is this brick situation is not good you think we need more massive countries aligning against the US dollar in the US hedony no but at the same time do we need them to defeat terrorism and help with NATO I think they were they they they weren't one of the first countries that KN joined NATO in 47 or 48 I think they joined in 52 we don't need them we don't need them cozing up to the Russia of the world the chin of the world or certainly the irans of the world you know um the uh the president uh of turkey give me his name again one more time Eran erdogan you know not exactly uh a fan of uh us Israel diplomatic relations yet erdogan he's veering towards the side of authoritarian it would seem uh he's also very pro-islam I mean that's his thing but um what I would say is take your take your alignment and relationships where you can get it and agree on what you can agree upon cuz it's never going to be 100% with this country and respectfully disagree and push back where you need to push back but this is uh this is a country bottom line with a lot of ugly past we know what happened with The Armenian Genocide straight up it was Joe Biden that I believe recognized it for the first time a syrians I learned that you know they were kind of part of that whole situation oh yeah uh World War I very ugly history this Ottoman Empire and then after the Ottoman Empire how how the Middle East sort of got carved up by Britain France everything there they're a major player they shouldn't be discounted but proceed with coition with this country you mind pass so by the way can you nailed it there there are natal Ally correct uh Monday two US service members were attacked in Turkey uh by a group of anti-American protesters during that violent uh interaction caught on camera Rob has it the man was identified as a serviceman from the USS Wasp uh he they just docked in turkey and the incident occurred uh in the Turkish Port City of ismer five of his other soldiers had to jump in and say like look look at look at this guy this guy just shopping in the town and then he gets caught up by some guys from turkey look has no idea by the way look and they're chanting Yankee go home Yankee go home and then that's his other Navy uh partner coming in to get involved and it's like bro what kind like that is happening in the streets of turkey to our soldiers that's absolutely ridiculous and that's not the first time it happened in 2014 uh three US Navy soldiers from the USS Ross were attacked by the youth union members also chanted Yankee go home Pat it seems as if they the sentiment towards us is not a positive one and they don't like us why are we even go why are we even going over there well I mean maybe that's why they're I mean you you have to realize the last year has changed a lot increased emotions a lot temperature a lot mhm revealed a lot of people's motives anger that people have been sitting on for a long time some purely driven by emotions some driven by years of hostility and hate towards a community that's now being public and by the way I'm convinced Tom I don't know if you agree with this or not that 90% of the uh hate and stuff that's being said from both sides you know Palestine Muslims uh Israel Jews those 90% are following the 10% of True Believers who they're just getting caught up they're like uh so do you know what it means uh you know River you know do you know what it means when there's do you know what they no do you know what the capital no do you know what uh do you know I so why are we here I honestly I don't know why I'm here so a lot of people are just following it but some of them are truly um going through it so turkey turkey and Israel they typically had a good relationship together it's not improved in the last 12 months they don't have the best relationship that they once had together um so he has to sit there and say where am I going to be welcome selfishly what's erdogan's job his job is to defend his beliefs which is what he's a Muslim he's the leader of turkey that's what his responsibility is his responsibility isn't you or I or you know whatever anybody else thinks about it his responsibility is what do his people want him to do what's best for turkey what's best for his people that's how he's processing that decision and maybe if he's going to be more welcomed in Bricks by who Russia by Iran by China yeah I'm going to a party that I'm welcome you ever been to a party where you're not welcomed how do you feel when you go to that party awward I want to leave us how bad is it when you go there it's like everybody kind of gives you the look ah whatever he's here right how does it feel when you go to a party when you're welcome how comfortable are you how content are you how like you go on a vacation with some you're like man I freaking really enjoy my time I just feel welcome and then you go to one you're like oh these people are snobby and they think they're better than me and all this I'm not never going on vacation with you guys ever again that's how erana is feeling right now doesn't make it right or wrong it just means he sees that as a bigger opportunity for him than NATO because who is the enemy of NATO Russia why was NATO created purely for one country okay it's it's it's who Soviet Soviet Union so why am I with NATO when the origins of NATO is hate towards Russia while Russia is actually being a good Ally to me the hell with NATO I'm going to leave so that's how that's how I see that he's processing it they also sorry they also have a little bit of uh sort of bipolarism as a country and sort of impostor syndrome because think about it you know the whole phrase like if you're the smartest in the room or the richest in the room you got to find a better room so what happens is and this is not my opinion this is sort of what I've been told by friends who have spent time in in Turkey journalists what have you they go look you know when they compare themselves to the Arab world they actually are like we're we're we're we're number one we're the best country around they're sort of elitist don't compare me to Iran or Saudi we're we're better than that but they are though right in their in their mind in the Middle East best military yes best economy so they they are they're saying the truth there there there there's reason to believe that exactly but then so that's when they look uh East but when they look West they're like oh there's the UK there's Germany there's France our GDP doesn't compare to these guys they're marginalized and they don't feel as powerful so you're going to have this you know how Pat you do this thing with me sometimes you can go this way can go this way that's literally what turkey's going through right now they're being pulled to the east they're being pulled to the West do you want to be the best country in a basket of not so great situations or the fourth best country in a way better situ situation in the EU I would hope that they come towards our Direction but we're not going to be 100% with a country like this one thing to know the uh debate is officially happening next is a Tuesday night Dr so we're doing right after the Vault conference I'm going to be at the Vault conference this weekend at Palm Beach Convention Center bunch of people will be there thousands of people are coming from around the world cannot wait to see all of you guys however next Tuesday 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