But focus with me on what is after the word "but": if we are forced to simply be consumers of what others make, and if Mr Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seeks to lead the east, and if Turkey's stance on Israel will cause it great economic losses, and if Turkey were not to sustain losses economically or politically, but instead were strengthened both economically and politically, and if this were to lead in the end to the disappointment and fury of Israel and the United States and those allied with them…