re: wondering why you think Russia is "safe" and Turkey is not
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... in my view, Turkey will "blow" in future, due to its government's alignment with the US and US interests in fundamental contradiction to the views of the general population. After Iraq fully ruptures, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, in my view, will follow in pattern.
Also, I suspect a conflict is imminent as regards the minority Kurds that will either spill over into, or from, Iraq.
As to Russia -- and provided, of course, miners have a Russian partner (i.e. BGO) -- and provided the miner is incorporated outside the US -- I view it as a relatively stable region for investment.
In my view, it's a game of locating the lesser of geographic evils -- I'm not terribly comfortable anywhere...
I suspect Putin -- after he purges the onerous, one-sided energy agreements of the Yeltsin era, arranged when Russia was bankrupt and energy prices were low, will run a fairly balanced ship of state as regards foreign investment, while certainly maintaining majority control over specifically energy interests... He's working hard for WTO membership. |
