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“Former Turkish deputy PM: The death of America is nearing,” SCF, August 23, 2018 (thanks to Joshua):

Former Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Çavuşoğlu said the United States would soon be finished and that Turkey does not fear the power of the US dollar, according to a report by the Cumhuriyet daily on Thursday.

Turkey is embroiled in a diplomatic dispute with NATO ally the US over the imprisonment of several US citizens and a range of other issues. The row has contributed to the fall in the Turkish lira, already battered by worries over the independence of the central bank and the government’s unwillingness to push up interest rates to tackle inflation.

“States like people are born, grow and die. … Hey America, you have been born, have grown and your death is approaching,” Çavuşoğlu told a crowd at an Eid Al-Adha celebration. The evidence for this included the United States’s failed project to prop up Kurdish rebels in Syria as well as its failure to stop Turkey from buying air defense systems from Russia, Çavuşoğlu said.

“This nation does not fear the dollar, this nation did not fear tons of tanks or heaps of iron,” he said and added: “With God’s blessing we will overcome this. This increase in the dollar is completely artificial.”…