Posted on 12/14/2015 6:19:39 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Russia continues military buildup around Turkey
Reports suggest that 7,000 Russian soldiers to be stationed on the Armenia-Turkey border
World Bulletin / News Desk
Russian garrisons are being deployed near the Armenia's border with Turkey on the Armenian government's request, media reported Monday.
According to local media, the decree to send the troops to Armenia was already signed by Russian President Putin, and the deployment will start soon.
Reports suggest that 7,000 soldiers from 58th Army Corps and will be stationed on the Armenia-Turkey border.
The Russian troops are expected to be equipped with missiles and tanks.
The Armenian government has supposedly asked Russia to deploy its troops to the Turkey border as it fears an armed attack on the country.
Turkey is not Georgia. Putin knows that and is posing for the cameras.
(and, I don't mean, "if Russia attacked Turkey from the rear, would Greece help?")
Would those who lord it over NATO or the EU really be all in on war with Russia if they finally took the Bosphorus? How differently would history have played out if England and the French Second Empire hadn't engaged in the Crimean War?
I have to wonder whether Russia destroying Ankara wouldn't actually be doing the West an enormous favor.
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Turkey’s alternative ?
Hundreds of billons lost in war damage.
National reputation in shambles.
Russia wins anyway they cut it.
That’s why “no one” with any freakin’ brains mucks around shooting down “Russian” fighter planes ...
No one.
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Sorry to say it, but those kids look like the kind of conscripts that got chewed up years ago by Chechen irregulars and the Turks are several classes above that.
Are those the actual troops, or merely a photo included in the story to make it more appealing to readers?
Not that it makes a huge difference.
Just asking. I don’t see an actual credit for what the photo is of, and I don’t recognize the magazine.
Another story along the same lines:
http://www.worldbulletin.net/caucasus/167371/turkey-russia-summit-cancelled
Turkey-Russia summit cancelled
And:
EU leaders set to extend Russia sanctions
http://www.worldbulletin.net/caucasus/167370/eu-leaders-set-to-extend-russia-sanctions
I noticed how young those troops look but then I look back to my basic training photo and I looked like that. That was about 40 years and 100 lbs ago.
Turkey has been not so covertly trying to overthrow the Syrian government, it might be a good tactic to turn on them.
Armenian.
I think they remember the genocide the Turks did to their grandparents and relatives.
Turkey wants a war between Russia and Nato....just as Obama does..........Erdogan will continue to set that stage. He knows Nato has to defend him if Russia goes too far.....Erdogan didn’t flood Europe to create an Immigration crisis for nothing.
Erdo probably did not receive a majority of votes in the last election. His cheating is well documented. He has plenty of opposition. Soros successfully defeated America by funding our opposition. Putin could do the same in Turkey. Soros did have an advantage though; freedom of the press and freedom of religion in the USSA.
A couple years ago I read a memoir by a Russian who had been drafted and served in Chechnya. Their military at that time was notorious for its brutality through the ranks. Corporals beat up privates, sergeants beat up corporals, etc. all the way up. Supposedly they have reformed things since then, but who knows? That photo may in fact be of new “recruits” fresh off the bus but they look an awful lot like the kind of half starved kids the Russians threw into the Grozny meat grinder. Americans who have served alongside Turks testify to their toughness so the Russians ought not be thinking they’re like your typical Arab troops or disorganized Afghan rebels. They’re a whole different animal on several levels.
Turkey would love to link up with their fellow Muslims in Azerbaijan and get access to all the Turkic countries surrounding the Caspian sea.
But they'd have to roll through Christian Armenia to do it.
A few tactical nukes might change that equation
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