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This is why I subscribe! So well written, thorough, pulling all these bad actors together. I was having lunch and sitting at a table next to me and my friends was Flynn’s sister and sister-in-law, latter’s husband fished worked for my husband. She came over to say hello, and I was so tempted to ask how that military grade psyop Q was going for them. Very dangerous family. Thank God Oz was destroyed by crudite and Jersey Shore actress destroying his campaign 😂

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Excellent! ⚠️ And perfectly timed (again). ☣️ ☢️ ☕️☕️☕️ 😉!

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Thanks for this great essay Greg.

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Wow! This reads like a spy-thriller novel, which I might think was unbelievable. Except it’s true. And dangerous. Great work on your part giving us the links between the characters. Thank you.

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If I remember right, Dmitry Peskov did his Russian foreign service work in Ankara 🤔

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Was the Ottoman/Turkish Empire ever not corrupt? Also, how much of the never ending conflict in the Middle East can be attributed to the fallout from its Ottoman history?

People need to stop supporting strongmen.

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This is FANTASTIC!!! As you were putting this together, did you come across any mentions of my personal white whale, good old Willlburrrr Ross?

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No one puts it together like you Greg. Humans are tricky. Or might I say Turkeys. Gobble. Gobble. Gobble.

I will resign my membership in the race soon. I don’t think I’ll live as long as Carter.

It’s hard to tell the difference between chicken breasts and turkey breast meat. I worked in restaurants that diced turkey breasts for the chicken salad. No customer ever complained.

There are turkeys. Chickens. Hawks. Doves. Ostriches. Owls. Eagles and rats. Each with a reputation. I think I can tell the difference. billserle.com.

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If it wouldn't help Trump, I'd write in your name when I vote for President. You at least should be appointed advisor -- a sort of Geiger counter, detecting The Corrupt. You'd have to be a plug-in device, though. If battery operated, you'd continually be run down by sheer volume.

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So, Turkey is transitioning to Türkiye? Give me a break. Turkey is NOT a deadname I will respect. And if anyone thinks I'm going to search for the Alt-code to get an umlaut-U out of an American Windows keyboard, they have another think coming. If I use it, it means I copy/pasted it.

One has to wonder why the man who constantly says that "I did nothing wrong," Donald Trump, always seems to be a part of these lists of criminality, usually followed by some of his lackeys. Trump's "Field of Dreams" principles of "if you steal it, I will come," are tiresome and perpetual, it seems. And then people like Flynn, Flynn Jr. (GREAT parenting, Mike!), Giuliani, and the whole cabal of miscreants follow close behind. No matter where it is, when it is, or how many billions are concerned, Trump is there. Eric Adams is nothing more than a MAGA Democrat (a MAGAcrat?); dishonest, entitled, and a crook. What's-his-face Menendez also falls into that lot. Dems are not perfect, but Repubs are not even trying.

Their "deadname," Turkey, is a perfect representation of what they are now, after Erdoğan's 20 years as first, Prime Minister and then, President: a shithole country. That tends to happen in ALL cases where strongmen take power. That's why we're NOT going back and we're NOT letting it happen here. Ukraine is the country that should be sliding into NATO's DMs, and Erdoğan and Türkiye (lots of copy/pasting here!) can fuck off to Moscow.

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There is one commonality, they are all descended from the mastermind of original sin, the Snake. No rhyme or reason for their evil other than because they can be evil, it plays well to their self loathing. If you hate yourself there is no room for love and empathy of anyone or anything else.

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Good god! What a list of miscreants you’ve cited; except for Kashogi of course. You are a wonder Greg. Like others here, this is why I subscribe.

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Wow! That’s one messy plot!

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Amazing job how you connected so many dots, past, present, and maybe future! Your mind, immense knowledge, and your well-honed craft make you a unique source. Thanks so much! Now I go off to study a bit more about Türkiye’s stance vis-a-vis WW2. Was that signed alliance really ever put into practice?? Was the neutrality they preached real? Back to the present & Adams, though… Damn, he sold himself for peanuts! And I wait for the peeling of more onion layers! 😂 Thanks again!

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The reach of evil that is DonOld trump & his cronies, members of our government as well as immigrants such as Oz who, like Elon Musk seemed to have acquired US citizenship to cause harm to our country while a pardoned criminal such as Flynn is still going by his military title.

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