O, hail, my fellow bored American Idol fans curious peeps who are so utterly concerned about peace and justice in the world!
Realpolitik can be a real biach, I say. The biachiest biach of them all, actually. So here are a couple of fancy maps with many colors that look kinda realpolitik-ey.
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It's the only way.
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Human greed knows no boundaries.
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But then, to a cop the explanation is never that complicated. It's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right...
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It's just that the system of geopolitical relations is such that it creates prerequisites for pulling certain levers and using certain tools in certain ways by the main players in the game, and pushing things in a certain direction that is considered beneficial for said country/society/economy/group-of-business-entities.
A government doesn't actually need to be "bought" or even infiltrated by shape-shifting lizardoid Illuminati Andromedans to figure out that it's in its best interests to, well, vouch for the interests of its respective big business players. When Obama met with Erdogan, he was discussing the energy corridor on behalf of the United States. We all know who the beneficiaries of that project would be, though. You certainly won't be among them.
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As for the Leviathan gas field, it's in international waters (mostly). Hence the potential claims from all adjacent countries: Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt. Everyone would want a piece of the pie, and the bigger players are trying to clear the table for themselves from smaller players before the gas field begins to work at full capacity.
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