The one thing that strikes me about despots. They are all peculiarly devoid of common sense. Seriously - think Hitler's madness on taking on Russia. It proved the end of him and his evil ambitions. Hitler could not see sense toward the end. He was convinced his tactics were going to win him the world. Stalin - Idi Amin - Mugabe....too many to mention. Erdogan is exactly the same !! He is astonishingly confident. I have tended to think that this is because he knows he has the USA nuclear weapons based at Inkirlik and Izmir....but it's more than that. Erdogan is a classic anti-Christ madman. He's insane. Insane people simply cannot see common sense. They cannot connect with the real world.
It surely must be the same with our politicians. Whom appear to be going stark raving bonkers themselves.
Take courage, Doves.