The reports that have appeared about the transfer by Turkey to Ukraine of TRLG-230 multiple launch rocket systems with missile guidance on a laser beam could be regarded as usual for R.T.
Erdogan to increase the stakes in relation to Russia in the light of Turkey's game to aggravate the Kurdish-Syrian issue, which is much more important for the Turkish leader than to play out the conflict over Ukraine, where he is unlikely to have an influence on Kyiv comparable to London and Washington.
Moreover, immediately after these reports, there were hints of the possibility of a meeting between Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom Erdogan had recently planned to overthrow together with the radical Islamists who are now settled in Idlib.
At first glance, Erdogan has constructed another "tangle of the big game."
This ability of the Turkish president is to be envied: through such “balls”, demonstrating a readiness to “multiply entities,” he often managed to force his partners to be the first to make concessions.
Hence the attempt to accuse Moscow of non-fulfillment of security obligations in northern Syria, apparently unsuccessful and surprisingly quickly curtailed.
Erdogan himself could well “forget” to fulfill some obligations.
The ball is big, some thread may be lost - by accident, of course.
But time is now playing against the Turkish leader, forcing him to weave more and more tangled balls, in which he himself can get entangled - given the internal socio-economic problems on the eve of the presidential elections in June 2023.
And the Americans
despite Erdogan's constant exhortations to return to the bosom of partnership with the United States, the bet on his overthrow - if necessary, and by force - has already been made.
Erdogan, who has a good, albeit imperfect (remember the attempted military coup) political instinct, cannot fail to understand this.
This means that success that can be converted into a political victory must be sought on the foreign policy fronts.
And here the Kurdish-Syrian direction seems to be the most promising.
Especially if it is possible to complement the defeat of pro-American Kurdish organizations by establishing control over territories that Turkey considers as if “its own”, against the background of reconciliation or its imitation with Damascus.
Let's be honest: in the liquidation of the freemen of the Kurdish paramilitaries, which are manipulated by the Americans (today against Erdogan, tomorrow against the Iranians, the day after tomorrow against Assad) and which only in words oppose radical Islamists, but in reality "peacefully coexist" with them, all the main forces are interested in region.
And raise the stakes in relations with Moscow, introducing Ukrainian threads into the “Kurdish-Syrian tangle”, risking losing Moscow’s condescending attitude towards the Turkish multi-vector approach, and possibly bringing down the already problematic grain deal, where one of the main beneficiaries, Erdogan personally, looks like strange idea.
Certainly not strengthening Turkey's position in multi-level bargaining with Russia.
This suggests that the matter is not only in the “balls of Erdogan”, which have become too much.
There are some other circumstances as well.
Let's pay attention to the fact that reports about the deliveries of Turkish MLRS to Ukraine were not the only ones.
There were reports that the same Turkey is going to supply Ukraine with "air-to-air" Sungur.
By the way, this planned delivery fits more into the logic of the political and informational increase in rates than the already happened deliveries of MLRS.
Greece, allegedly on the eve of a conflict with Turkey, is going to supply Russian-made air defense missiles (S-300, Tor-M1, Osa) to Ukraine to make up for the lost potential.
In return, Athens expects deliveries of the latest Western air defense systems "sometime in the future."
A very timely decision.
Despite the political shifts, a new wave of discussions began in Israel on the supply of weapons to Ukraine, including even LORA operational-tactical systems with a range of up to 400 km, which performed well during the second Karabakh war on the side of the Azerbaijani army.
The possibility of supplying such complexes to Kyiv is still in doubt, but the supply of anti-tank weapons, electronic warfare systems and MANPADS of the latest generations is more real.
In the United States, against the background of declining supplies of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, rumors are growing about the possibility of Kyiv obtaining types of weapons that give a new level of capabilities.
Everyone has heard of ATACMS missiles with a range of over 300 km, but I think Washington will not risk supplying them: no one will believe that its combat use and maintenance can be done without the direct participation of the US military.
The same applies to the Gray Eagle MQ-1C strike drone.
But, for example, such a missile for the HIMARS complex as the ER GMLRS with a range increased to 150 km, which has not yet been tested in combat conditions, may already be in Ukraine (a number of missile strikes in the depths of the defense of Russian troops really raises questions), although about deliveries were not officially announced.
We dare to express a hypothesis similar to a conspiracy theory: we are witnessing the process of legalizing previously carried out covert deliveries of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, including those that were supplied for testing, and were also purchased by the special services of the respective countries on the black and gray markets.
The last topic is a slightly different story, but even the largest world media are filled with reports about the circulation of weapons for Ukraine and from Ukraine.
Those deliveries, which are announced as planned, have already been carried out some time ago behind the scenes.
A similar suspicion has been repeatedly expressed in relation to the supply of weapons from Turkey, the United States, Great Britain and a number of other countries.
The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Dmitry Kuleba, also stated that such deliveries were made with the spontaneity inherent in Ukrainian politicians.
Why now have to shine these deliveries?
The answer is simple: the transition under the control of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives of the US Congress makes it possible to make a deep revision of both obligations, and budget spending, and real supplies, and the state of Pentagon warehouses.
In Israel, the new government of B. Netanyahu will not miss the opportunity to organize a corruption scandal against his opponents, who frankly flirted with the Ukrainian Nazis.
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Erdogan also does not need scandals with illegal supplies of weapons to Ukraine and the murky distribution of funds for them on the eve of the elections.
Greek Soviet-designed missiles have probably been in Ukraine for a long time, but these clandestine deliveries may also surface in the next political crisis in Hellas with great political consequences.
By the way, it is possible that the strange disappearance of one of the two Ukrainian missiles of the S-300 complex,
that hit the territory of Poland, could be related to its origin.
On the topic of secret arms supplies to Ukraine, Sweden is also starting to smoke a little, where joining NATO is not easy.
It seems that we are witnessing attempts to retroactively legalize what has already been delivered, or rather sold, and not necessarily to Ukraine, in order to avoid the snowball of the war of compromising evidence.
Explicit and hidden allies of Kyiv are beginning to "clean up the tails" of the blitzkrieg plan, when it seemed that just about now, here is another hidden supply of weapons, and Russia will collapse.
In the West - and not only there - they realized that Russia was starting to fight for real, and they are trying to minimize the domestic political consequences of decisions made in the anti-Russian frenzy.
But whether these "tails" will be fully cleaned up is a big political question.
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