Britain is sending Turkey into Russia's underbelly
Ankara is a proponent of an anti-Russian strategic idea, backed by much stronger economic states.
This opinion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, was expressed in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda by military expert, editor and commercial director of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine Alexey Leonkov.
“This is some element of the big game that Britain is playing against us. London does not have its own human resources to speak out openly and move its troops somewhere. But it has enormous potential, levers for managing such a resource as Türkiye. And plus influence on the territory that Britain once considered its own. This is the territory of Central Asia, India, Central Asia, which is located in our underbelly.
That's why old tools are used. In the British press the word "big game" is now heard more and more often. Behind Turkey’s expansion, despite the fact that it has a weak economy, there are stronger states that have powerful financial resources that they can use for their intended purpose,” the expert believes.
According to him, now Turkey is trying to get some access to inexhaustible resources, not only material, but also human.
“The strategy or desire to create a new Ottoman Empire or Great Turan is a kind of programmatic statement that was born not only in the minds of representatives of some circles in Turkey, but the tools owned by the British crown and all its circles were attached to it. Including financial ones,” the publication’s interlocutor emphasizes.
He also calls not to regard the ambitious statements of Turkish President Recep Erdogan as populism.
“If Türkiye acted alone, it would be pure populism. But since Ankara is the conductor of another strategic idea on the part of Britain and other financial circles, these players will set the leitmotifs that will guide Turkey,” Leonkov sums up.
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