it was a marriage of convenience. one side had the political charisma and following, the other side had the economic power and also bureaucracy, so, it was the perfect match. gulen once was an erdogan ally. for almost a decade, gulen helped erdogan build the walls of a republic of fear. through what is called the ergenekon case. judges, prosecutors and cops built a court case, alleging that there was a coup plotl against erdogan carried out by the so called deep state. ergenekon is claimed to be the name of a secret network of military officers and judges
so-called budding partnership. i would not go so far as to cal an alliance. i called and marriage of convenience. in president she a potential backer she gets help from president exide. washington criticized the timin of the trip coming days after the international criminal cour issued an arrest warrant for wladimir putin on the war crime charges. live in dc think thank you with us now the former director of the national counterintelligence and securit center. great to have you on pr writes the following telling moment came as she bid farewell to putin following a steak dinner at the criminal into his day. right now there are changes at the likes of which we have not seen before at 100 years. she told putin and we are the ones driving these changes. had if you re in charge of
don t like volatility. think of them as the adult and the room and putin is kind of the teenager. there is sham shared interest and this case, but i don t thin roping in hooton is going to be easy to do pretty good what you think of this new relationship between china and russia. may be it s not new. it s a marriage of convenience. and wondering what you think because it s not just in ukraine , we re talking about in space, and in energy, and in diplomacy, they seem to be teaming up more in more in a lo of generals are very concerned about that. what you see here is really china countering the united states. this is the real rivalry that i coming across. which really is, hooton is a sideshow. at the end of the day, they are the real competition for the interesting thing about yesterday and today isn t what you saw on tv or what they showed, it was pretty general. and honestly it s a little bit of an uneasy alliance for two things to look at coming out of these meetings fraid number o