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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (61240)	3/22/2005 9:28:24 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) of 74559

The EU has been expanding rapidly, and will be getting Ukraine (which has a huge land area), probably Moldova. An inclusion of Turkey is a fork in the road - ** On the plus side, it could lead to the economc integration of a number of Turkic speaking countries(Turkemistan, etc.) with resources and growing popultaions. It is also obviously a bridge to the Middle East, including Iraq, Iran, Syria, and others. The cost side - So far all EU countries have had a Christian history - including a Muslim country will decrease future EU solidarity, which will tend to limit the EU to economic matters. It would make an aggresive foreign policy much more difficult, and thus limit challenges to US power. It will also tie the EU into investing and risking more to stabalize and economically integrate the Middle East, picking up some of the burden from the US...while the US maintains maximum leverage in the Gulf area. * If Turkey is NOT included, they will look more to the US. There has already been talk of some form of NAFTA lite which could embrace Turkey... ******** Glad to see some people at the CFR and State are earnig their pay....;-)

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