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DavidDvorkin

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7. Erdoğan needs to be reined in

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jul 7, 2026, 01:23 PM

6 hrs ago

Or even better, replaced with someone who will reverse the slide into autocracy, but Trump's hardly the one to do anything.

The same applies to Netanyahu, of course, but at least in his case, the upcoming elections seem likely to do the job.

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