Peanuts
Groucho: “That’s a heck of a lot of turkey there. Are you going to have enough cranberry sauce?”
From my friends over in that area now, they say Qatar is still a proxy for Iran. FYI.
Get OUT of QaTAR ( pronounced KATAR!!) Get OUT!!
All senior members of Qatar’s Al-Thani family and Erdogan himself are Muslim Brothers of decades standing. And yet, Foggy Bottom continues to play footsie with the treacherous Ikhwn al-Muslimun.
$15B will fund a corrupt state maybe 2 months. The Qataris will learn the same lesson that the Chinese learned in Venezuela.
Money down a Rat Hole!
My guess is they are on a buying spree in a bargain-basement economy. Last I heard the Lira was at sixteen cents on the dollar. A week at a five star hotel for two was $200 US.
The problem with going there is that Turkey could erupt in civil war at any moment. And, don’t you just love democracies where the next leader, already chosen, is a relative of the present leader?
Erdogan said, “Democracy is like a bus. You ride it to the destination you want and then get off.”