It seems somewhat ironic that a country like America which so repudiates international law, as evidenced by President Trump's UN speech last Tuesday and John Bolton's recent speech to the Federalist Society, then condemns the growing dictator Erdogan for misbehaving in the same way. The irony is further enhanced by the US state's reliance on assassination (CIA and military drone-strikes, bombing and missile raids against states with which you are not at war, SOF raids in states with which you are not at war, rendition and off-shore torture or detention) while simultaneously complaining that an authoritarian upstart in Turkey is beyond the pale for flaunting international law and national sovereignty, is too rich. Finally, recent threats to sanction, criminalise or even use force against agents of the International Criminal Court or cooperating third-party persons, organisations and states by the USA seems to make such criticisms ring hollow in the extreme. Erdogan is is a nasty, viscious dictator in the making, who will likely cause Turkey great suffering and harm but criticising him while behaving in the same way and while cooperating with the Egyptian dictator El-Sisi as he kills tens of thousands of Egyptians with or the Saudi and UAE royal families as they attack Yemen is the height of hypocrisy.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.