Which is why they don’t waste their time or resources staging fake assassination attempts that would be impossible to keep secret.

Turkey, after a decade, is still run by a strongman our very own Donald J Trump calls a "tough cookie" and "very smart" ...

CIA did not buy Erdoğan government’s story on 2016 coup attempt

Nordic Monitor, July 15, 2025

Two inside sources from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have cast doubt on the Turkish government’s narrative regarding a coup attempt in 2016, which many believe was a false flag operation designed to consolidate the power of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

In his book titled “Never Give an Inch,” released last year, Mike Pompeo, who served as CIA director and secretary of state in the Trump administration, described the events of July 15, 2016 as a “purported ‘coup,'” casting doubt on the accuracy of the Erdoğan government’s narrative.

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The CIA officer also found it perplexing to witness the Turkish government’s swift removal of over 10,000 alleged members of the Gülen movement from various government institutions within just 12 hours of the alleged coup. ” … they [Turkish officials] must explain how they could produce a long list of suspects” in such a short period of time, he said.

Although the Turkish military itself said the military mobilization on July 15 was very limited and involved less than 1 percent of the troops, the Erdoğan government was quick to conduct mass purges of senior officers from NATO’s second largest army in terms of manpower. A total of 23,971 personnel, primarily in the officer ranks, were purged from the Turkish army without any military, administrative or criminal investigations.

The purge primarily targeted pro-NATO officers or individuals who had served in NATO assignments, at NATO headquarters in Brussels or at NATO-affiliated bases in the US, Norway, Germany, Italy and Spain. Evidence presented in coup trials revealed that the profiling of those to be purged was quietly carried out between 2014 and 2016 by Turkish intelligence agency MIT and its extensive network of informants.

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https://nordicmonitor.com/2024/07/cia-did-not-buy-erdogan-governments-story-on-2016-coup-attempt/

In other words, Erdoğan and his co-conspirators targeted those who believe in Democracy for Turkey, our NATO ally.

Remember Viktor Orban?

In 2024, I brought up how the fascists don’t think We the People will notice what they (VRWC) are doing.



Project 2025 Leader Working to Implement Policies of Putin Ally: Professor

by Flynn Nicholls
Newsweek, July 2024

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, is working to implement the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to institutionalize Trumpism, an analyst and professor wrote on Thursday.

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Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, joined the growing chorus of analysts criticizing Roberts' comments and policy proposals as being authoritarian. In Letters From an American, her Substack blog, she discussed Roberts' close affiliation with the regime of Orbán, Hungary's strongman leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest ally in NATO and the European Union.

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Orbán is a hard-line anti-immigration Euroskeptic who regularly expresses sympathy for Russia. Like Donald Trump's campaign, Orbán has described George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire, as a puppet master controlling the global political left. In 2022, Orbán's party won a decisive fourth consecutive term, running on a platform that Hungary, the EU and NATO should not be involved in the Russia-Ukraine war.

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The Heritage Foundation has long admired Orbán. In a 2022 interview with Hungarian Conservative, Roberts said, "Modern Hungary is not just a model for conservative statecraft, but the model." In 2023, Roberts brought the Heritage Foundation into formal partnership with the Danube Institute, a conservative think tank funded by Orbán's government.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/content/ar-BB1ptiAS

“Second American Revolution” is how they (along with their pals on SCOTUS and Congress) are transforming the power in the Constitution from “We the People” to “Me the Donald.”

2024 DU OP: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=edit&forum=1002&thread=19165167

Of course, I’ve been writing about the NAZI influence on DU for more than two decades now.

2006 DU OP:

Know your BFEE: Like a NAZI

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=133897

Fun to see how few of those who denigrated those warnings remain.

DC, or Wall Street-on-the-Potomac, serves the rich to make them richer.



While of infinite importance to the U.S. Constitution, citizens of democracies, and 99.99 percent of the planet’s population, Wars, Politics, MAGA, Doge, Epstein etc. etc. etc. are Side Show.