The Gygsaw

  India doesn't need nor sought these from Turkey. Your DefCos are our target. Why would we buy from you? It is Turkey's stupidity on two counts. 1. The state of #Turkey 's economy, they need not say no to a potential superbuyer. 2. Erdogan is facing political / military crisis & is in search of a new adversary. India is a thousand miles away, fits well. From fake graduation to imprisoning opposition to never ending wars to depleting economy. Stretching its military from Kosovo to Libya to Sudan to Somalia to Pakistan to Bangladesh to Kazakhstan. It will boomerang very soon. Picking on India is one of its worst call! Days of Erdogan is numbered anyways. His domestic political crisis will only deepen from here on.

Fear grips Tripoli that the deal will wreck Libyan economy to a point of no return. It was behind closed doors earlier. Now, is being echoed even in diplomatic chatters. Here's why. Libya's Haftar - a militia leader, runs half the country. With enormous resources comes lots of money. And here, the money (or half of it!) disappears from financial system of the country. Now, that "disappeared" money is being used to buy arms from Pakistan. Why? 1. We need to understand that the money is coming back to the economy - through Pakistan and arms. Basically, black --> white. 2. The money that was "disappearing" was actually Dinars being printed by Russians. 3. Saudi is not paying for the arms. Of course, state of their economy in bad shape. 4. Pakistan is the only country that can accept such non-sovereign currency. 5. Why would Pakistan do that? Well, for its crypto project. It requires lots of Gold and cash. Libya has both. 6. Now, fears that the economy would ...