Turkey Blocks Dual-Use Goods Exports to Russia

While propaganda tells how Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke for an hour with the great strategist Putin at the BRICS summit, it has become known that Turkey has begun blocking the export of dual-use goods and technologies to Russia.

Under American pressure, Ankara is refusing to act as a transit point for “parallel imports” to Russia.

In recent weeks, Ankara has adjusted its customs system to block the export of more than four dozen categories of American-origin goods that Washington and its Western allies deem critical to Moscow’s military operations in Ukraine.

Turkey’s electronic customs system no longer allows exporters to send shipments of so-called “battlefield goods” to Russia, although it previously permitted their transport there. Similar goods originating from the EU were blocked earlier and remain blocked.

This year, Turkish banks sharply reduced their operations with Russian counterparts after the US issued a decree threatening sanctions against creditors servicing transactions for the Kremlin’s military machine.

One can talk endlessly about BRICS, puffing up with the perceived greatness and influence of Putin, but the result is that none of the rational countries in the world wants to face sanctions due to military cooperation with Russia.

All these stories from Kremlin propagandists about Putin being the main figure at the BRICS summit are just another bluff. Just compare the share of the world economy of China or India with that of Russia, and everything becomes clear.

These countries only use Russia as a raw material appendage with cheap energy resources. Turkey does the same, and it will never trade its alliance with the US, as Turkey is a NATO country, for vague and uncertain prospects of friendship with Russia.

The recent events with the blocking of dual-use goods confirm this. Putin only has two allies left – the plump Kim Jong Un and the mustachioed Lukashenko. But even the latter may turn his back on him if Putin ceases to be of interest to him.