We know why it’s so easy for Turkey and Azerbaijan to bribe and butter Eric Adams, Tony Blair, the BBC, UNESCO, the entire state department, Elon Musk, etc: they’re all violently corrupt, they enjoy blood money. But what favors are the Turks purchasing in these arrangements?

To be fair if they couldn’t be bought/controlled by interested power parties on either side of the ocean they could never get their leadership roles

Why would a successful gangster throw money around at politicians and newspapers on all sides, museums and charities, the police, and the richest buffoon in town? 🤔 Easy: to normalize their operation and continue the killing spree! 🤪

NYC has one of the largest surveillance apparatuses in the world, and Erdogan wants it.

Likely fixing parking tickets. They really add up.

Eric Adams might take bribes, but not butter, he’s vegan bruh, he sends that dairy shit back at his table of success

Better parking and zoning favors with Adams. Long run they want to black bag dissidents. But usually Turkey is just a middleman for Saudi goals. The Saudis want nukes, the Turks want cash. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/n...