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1. Türkiye is the bridge between West Asia and Europe historically. They jacked up taxes (60-65%) on Indian Spice trade ( 14-15 Century) to Europe to unacceptable levels for Western Europe esp Portuguese !! So, Portuguese decided to visit India to bye- pass Turkey🤗

2. In 2013-14, Turkey wanted to deploy PLA’s -HQ -9 ( derivative of S- 300 ! ) and integrate into NATO Air Defence! The move was vetoed. Then they went in for S-400, inviting CAATSA!

3. Now they have a new bargaining chip!

Let us see how it plays!!

4. Just to inform- Turkey also wants to control wheat exports from Ukraine to global markets.

5. Location/ Geography plays an important role.

6. As usual, well argued👏👏👏

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