"Cheney has Turkey in his sights
The vice-president highlighted an unheralded goal of US foreign policy when he took a shot at Russia, writes David Gow
Thursday May 11, 2006
Dick Cheney, the US vice-president who famously peppered a 78-year-old lawyer in a quail hunting accident, shot wildly again last week.
This time, as well as hitting a supposed friend, Russia, he shot himself in the foot as he denounced Russia's geo-political use of its oil and gas reserves as 'tools of intimidation and blackmail'.
He highlighted, in doing so, a relatively unheralded goal of US foreign policy: to turn Turkey into a conduit for energy supplies that bypass the control of President Putin and the majority state-owned Russian gas giant Gazprom."
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