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Turkey’s downing of a Russian bomber on November 24 was another salvo in the US-Russian imperialist proxy war in Syria and Iraq.  This intensifying conflict has many twists and turns.  The bottom line, however, is that every power involved is fascist.  Each is an imperialist or an imperialist lackey.
Every capitalist boss will willingly order soldiers and workers to their deaths in their wars to dominate the world’s markets and workers’ labor power.  This intensifying capitalist-imperialist rivalry shows the urgent need to dump them all by mobilizing the masses for communist revolution. 
We must fight harder for a communist world without competition, markets or profits.  In communism, the world’s workers will collectively produce and use energy only to meet the needs of our international working class.

Turkey’s crucial geopolitical position
“Turkey is the gatekeeper to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea through its control of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. That means if Russia wants to send container ships, oil cargoes and warships westward, they pass through Turkey. If NATO wants to threaten the Russian underbelly from the Black Sea, Turkey has to give the green light.” (Stratfor)
In the long term, the US wants to position itself for World War III.   In the Black Sea region, this means building alliances to confront Russia.  Such alliances could include Turkey and Eastern European countries like Poland and Romania. Meanwhile, through its pivot to Asia Pacific, US imperialism aims to control the South China Sea, building alliances there to confront China.
For this, the US imperialists need to break Russia’s chokehold on Turkey’s and Europe’s energy supplies. This would guarantee their support for the US on today’s geopolitical issues.  It will also be indispensable for the eventual world war.
In the short term, the downing of the Russian plane put the brakes on Russian efforts to control gas pipelines (see map).  The South Stream pipeline was to have taken more Russian gas to Turkey and Europe.  That was torpedoed when Bulgaria, pressured by the European Union on behalf of the US, denied it a route through its territory.  Russia’s “plan B” to replace the South Stream was the Balkan Stream. 
This pipeline would have connected to the Turkish Stream, an existing underwater pipeline from Russia to Turkey.  It would have tied Turkey closer to Russia.  This would have benefited Turkey by making it a major transit hub for Russian gas going to eastern European markets.

Stopping the Balkan Stream was crucial for the US.
The US Black Sea strategy, anchored on Turkey and these countries, can’t succeed unless they are freed from the Russian bear’s embrace.  The US and its European allies want to construct the Eastring pipeline to connect Eastern Europe to Turkey in place of the Balkan Stream. 
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine and Western Europe have drastically cut their imports of Russian gas.  After Turkey downed the Russian jet, Russia imposed sanctions on Turkey.  Turkey has announced it will cut its Russian gas imports by 25% next year.  US gas exporters are scrambling to make up much of the difference. 
So whatever the true story is behind the downing of the plane, US imperialists are so far coming out ahead.

“We don’t want to be soldiers for the imperialists!”
The world’s capitalists-imperialists compete for the world’s natural resources to better compete for market share and profits.  Current events are showing that this competition can only lead to bigger and more lethal wars, including world war. The world’s workers have absolutely no interests in the world’s bosses’ dog fight.
We should follow the example of thousands of Turkish anti-war protesters who shouted in October 2012, “We don’t want to be soldiers for the imperialists.”  Let’s all refuse to fight for any capitalist or imperialist.  Soldiers must join workers and youth in the fight to destroy them all by mobilizing the masses for a communist revolution.
Communism will eliminate bosses and profits, and with them borders and imperialist wars.  Instead of capitalist competition, masses of workers will cooperate to produce energy safely and sustainably and to get it where it’s needed.
We call on all Red Flag readers, in Turkey and everywhere, to spread Red Flag, to write for it, and to join the International Communist Workers’ Party to mobilize masses for the communist world we need.

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