Dozens of renegade commandos in three Black Hawk helicopters
swooped in on the president’s holiday residence.
Their mission was to capture him—or more likely, to kill him.
The commandoes engaged in a fierce gun battle with the
president’s bodyguards, killing a number of them.
The president, however, was nowhere to be found. He’d been
tipped off and made it safely to his private jet, cheating death by mere
minutes.
When the renegade soldiers learned of his escape, they
commandeered a couple of F-16 fighter jets and sent them to shoot down the
presidential jet.
To escape the rebel F-16s, the president’s pilots hid their
aircraft’s identity by altering its transponder signal, making it “look” like a
civilian passenger jet.
The confused rebel F-16s ran out of fuel and had to land before
they figured out what had happened.
This story sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel. But
it actually happened last summer in Turkey. The failed military coup d’état
killed over 290 people.
Today,
Turkey is at the epicenter of many crises destabilizing the world…
·
The migrant crisis in Europe
·
The ongoing carnage in Iraq and Syria
·
The battle with ISIS
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The Kurdish conflict
·
The new Cold War with Russia
Turkey is one giant powder keg, and the fuse is already lit.
When the next global crisis explodes, Turkey—which straddles
Europe and Asia—will likely be involved. It has more tripwires for a global
meltdown than any other place in the world.
In the
coming weeks, Turkey may also play a big role in the collapse of the world’s
largest economy.
You see, the EU has harshly criticized Turkey’s response to the
failed coup. This has not endeared them to the Turkish government.
It’s actually incredibly stupid. (And by stupid I mean exactly
that—an unwitting tendency toward self-destruction.)
That’s because Turkey could quickly and easily flood Europe with
more unwelcome migrants.
The migrant crisis is the
most explosive political issue on the Continent right now. It played a key role
in the Brexit vote. And it’s a political accelerant for anti-EU parties gaining
traction throughout Europe, including Marine Le Pen’s Front National party in
France.
It’s a simple
relationship. The more migrants that arrive in Europe, the more popular anti-EU
political parties become, and the weaker the EU gets.
This is where Turkey holds the
key to the EU’s future…
Turkey is a major transit point for migrants headed to Europe. The
Turkish government doesn’t want these migrants to stay in Turkey. So it has
little reason to stop them from leaving for Europe.
This gives Turkey leverage with the EU. The Turks have essentially
said, “Give us what we want or we’ll open the floodgates.”
What the
Turks want is a lot of money.
Last year, Brussels partially gave in to the blackmail—to the
tune of $6 billion. In return, the Turks agreed to stop migrants from illegally
entering Europe.
This arrangement worked for a while. But recent tensions between
the EU and Turkey have reached a boiling point.
The Turkish government has warned the EU. If Brussels walks away
from its part of the deal, the Turks will, too.
Specifically, the Turkish government has threatened to flood
Europe with migrants… just in time for France’s presidential election on April
23.
This election could lead to the end of the euro and the EU
itself. Ultimately, it could trigger a global financial meltdown of historic
proportions.
The Financial Times explains what could happen if an
anti-euro populist party wins and causes the collapse of the EU:
It would probably lead to the most violent economic shock in
history, dwarfing the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008 and the 1929 Wall
Street crash.
If Turkey sends a new wave of migrants into Europe just before
this key election, it will help seal the EU’s fate.
Doug Casey and I (Nick Giambruno) went to Turkey not long ago.
It’s the latest of many spots we’ve visited with literal blood in the streets.
We put our boots on the ground in the same area where rebel
soldiers nearly assassinated Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president.
I think there’s a good
chance Turkey will flood Europe with migrants before France’s April 23
election. This would virtually ensure an anti-EU win in France—and kill the EU
itself… triggering an unprecedented global financial crisis far worse than
2008.
Of course, when there’s a crisis—especially one this
catastrophic—most people only see danger. But Doug Casey and I see opportunity.
Reprinted
with permission from International Man.
Nick is Doug Casey’s globetrotting companion and is the Senior
Editor of Casey Research's International Man.
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