What's wrong with the world

[james_davis_nicoll]

Commies. Definitely Commies.

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[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I've been watching Turkey ease into the role of local Great Power again. Turkey has three times the GDP as Israel on what's looking like a transition curve -- per capita, it's roughly where Israel was in the 1970s. Turkey spends 2% of its GDP on the military. Israel spends 7%.

Don't have to be a genius to figure that one out.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness from Israel's point of view that Israel and Turkey have generally been amicable and that there are no inherent reasons Israel should want to piss Turkey off. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Turkey_relations#2010_Gaza_flotilla_raid)