The Turkish tyrant is a power junkie who clearly wants to rule the world or at the very least, rebuild a much larger ottoman empire.

And President Putin whom he's clearly already in bed with is also wanting to be a president for life and recreate an expanded Soviet Union. Likewise China, which dreams of the Ming dynasty and emerging as the ruler of all of Asia?

What is the only impediment we in the west would have if these three formed, along with a few useful idiots, a trilogy of power that would more than match the west?

Thorium is that answer and the cooperative industrial muscle we could grow if we put it to work in our co-op factories and farms and in a cooperative fight against poverty, when and wherever we find it!

And have this emerging new national wealth, placed in peril by the unconscionable activities of the aforementioned. Trump? Too busy building his own exploitative empire to be bothered!?

We have a decade maybe, to build ourselves up to be powerful enough to be able to take a lethal bite out of any expeditionary adventure sent here to annex land and or mineral wealth!?

And now on the cards, as we sleepwalk toward this inevitable destination!
Alan B.

But isn't what Erdogan doing the same as what the trumpenfuhrer is doing /invoking when he wants to make white "christian" America great (grate) again. Many of his ardent supporters are conservative Christians, some of whom pretend that he is "god's" agent for doing so.

From the Turkish perspective everything described in this essay is completely justifiable. They are quite rightly celebrating a Turkish military victory - a victory which incurred great human loss and suffering.

This is also part of the rise of the world-wide phenomenon of back-to-the-past "religious" nationalism.

Meanwhile as far as I know the Australian Veteran's Affairs Department spends millions of dollars creating glossy "educational" materials promoting the Anzac myth/legend which are distributed to all Australian school students. Never mind of course that the Gallipoli misadventure was a military failure/defeat.

Shouldn't the Veteran's Affairs department be spending ALL of its money on catering for the very real needs, both physical and psychological, of former members of our armed forces.

Daffy Duck,

I agree with your last comment completely. Also Gallipoli should be remembered for what it was, a strategic disaster, Australians were involved in someone else's imperial war far from home.
When I was young, Anzac Day was fading away, as it should. It's probably only a matter of time before there's a very nasty incident between drunk Australians 'commemorating' Anzac Day at Gallipoli and some local Turks.

The Turks have been stewing about revenge for having been shown the way home at Vienna hundreds of years ago.
They have now come to the realisation that the advent of do-gooderism has created loopholes to invade another country without fighting. All they need are iphones to instantly co-ordinate.
The western academic policy makers are a pushover.