It’s funny to see the Ankara regime accounts on here celebrating Ankara lira “gains” and its “strength”….after weeks in which it was weakening now they post that it got better…economic nationalism is so boring and banal…the whole thing is chicanery anyway
Does anyone believe that the lira really weakened so much so quickly and then magically went from like 18 to 10 to the $1 overnight…the whole thing is some scheme cooked up by Ankara…it’s not based on reality of the economy
When you have uncertainty and fluctuation, volatility and government intervention, it means something else is going on…currencies aren’t supposed to fluctuate wildly.
Just look at the chart. The idea that anyone can ascribe any of this in the last days to some great success, or failure, of the regime in Ankara is only that the regime intervening spread uncertainty and volatility…and that’s not good. You don’t want currencies to do this
Also predators come into a market like this to try to benefit off it, and that’s is not good; middle class people can see bank accounts harmed.

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Thread: People's responses to antisemitism are sometimes guided by their politics...to the point they treat antisemitism on their side of the political spectrum like it was just a bad joke at a cocktail party but "we're all in the in-crowd so it's ok, please don't say it so loud"
Basically it amounts to "please don't hate us all as a group, we're on the same political team so if you can just tone down the antisemitism next time, let me educate you about how to say it slightly differently, or just don't say it out loud next time"...
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First of all you should never empower one vicious authoritarian regime that crushes media in order to confront some other adversary….second Ankara is buying S-400s, it is a partner of Moscow. It’s not confronting it. It has its own allies like Azerbaijan…but not NATO, US etc
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For instance, ok I’m interested in any confirmed successes Ankara’s drones had, whether it is supposedly striking hundreds of armed vehicles in Syria or Armenian vehicles…but how can any of it be confirmed. It’s usually just reports of Blitzkrieg like success at face value
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Although some people who oppose Ankara’s current ruling regime think that collapse of the lira is a development that shows how bad the regime is…I wonder if this has actually become regime policy now. Erode the lira, create a crises, concentrate power, get opposition to migrate
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