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Turkey's election and its implications for NATO, Russia, and the EU are closely watched globally, with the challenger likely to steer Turkey back towards Western alliances.
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The full transcript provides a detailed analysis of Turkey's election and its global implications, offering a comprehensive understanding beyond surface-level news coverage.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Beau again.
So today we are going to talk about Turkey and the election
and NATO and Russia and the EU
and what it means for everybody.
We're gonna do this because I got a message
that was basically like, hey, why am I seeing more coverage
about Turkey's election than I did
about my own state election?
Yeah, that tracks, that tracks.
What's happening in Turkey right now is important for the international poker
game where everybody's cheating, there's a lot of chips at stake in this election.
So what's happened over there, multiple people can run, but you have to
have 50% to actually win.
So you have a first election and then there's a runoff election.
They're moving to the runoff now because the current leadership didn't get 50%.
The current leadership been in power a while.
Like most people who have been in power a while, they become more and more authoritarian.
No different.
Over the years has moved away from NATO, the EU, the West in general.
Not in any treaty sense, but more in just attitude and rhetoric type of thing.
Nobody at State Department would admit this, but I'm pretty sure they're all rooting
for the challenger.
The challenger has indicated they plan to move back towards the EU and NATO.
That leadership also has a tendency to greatly overestimate the value of Turkey to not just
NATO but really the United States in particular.
There was a time when Turkey was really important.
Not so much today.
Not so much today.
And this is something that we've talked about on the channel before Ukraine.
just really kind of brought everything into focus. Moscow is going to want the
current leadership to be re-elected. He's not really like the Kremlin's man in
NATO or anything like that but he is the current leadership is more more
More sympathetic, let's just say.
Not to the point of actually like really being on Russia's side, but is warmer to them than
most NATO countries.
Most NATO countries.
So the US is going to want the challenger to win, Moscow is going to want the current
leadership to get reelected and in addition to all of the economic and the
standard stuff dealing with Turkey itself, Sweden, if the challenger wins,
Sweden is a whole lot more likely to become a NATO member faster. There's a
whole bunch of little stuff like that that's at play. That's why it's being
covered. Not necessarily anything huge in and of itself. There's not one specific
thing. It's a whole bunch of little things that make a whole bunch of people
really interested in the outcome of this election. And that's why it's
getting the coverage it is. That's why so many different outlets have kind of
zoomed in on this because there's a bunch of little stories that will come
out of this depending on who wins and the the odds are I guess traditionally I
don't know this for certain but from what I understand generally speaking the
challenger is going to win on this one because basically all of the other
candidates were kind of against the current leadership so all of those votes
that went to the third candidate or fourth candidate should transfer to the
challenger. But either way it's probably going to be really close. So we'll have
to wait and see what actually happens when they have the run-off election.
Anyway, it's just a thought, y'all have a good day.
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