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Russia to Turkey: We cannot guarantee safety of your planes over Syria - TASS
Reuters ^ | 3/1/2020 | Andrew Osborn

Posted on 03/02/2020 3:33:56 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday that Moscow could not guarantee the safety of Turkish planes flying in Syria after Damascus said it was closing the air space over the Idlib region, the TASS news agency reported.

The ministry issued the warning after Turkey shot down two Syrian warplanes over Idlib on Sunday and struck a military airport well beyond its frontlines in a sharp increase of its military operations following the death of dozens of Turkish soldiers last week.

“In these conditions the leadership of Russia’s military contingent (in Syria) cannot guarantee the safety of Turkish flights in Syrian skies,” TASS cited Counter Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev as saying.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: erdogan; kag; kurdistan; maga; middleeast; receptayyiperdogan; russia; syria; trump; trumpnato; turkey
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1 posted on 03/02/2020 3:33:56 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

You want war with Russia? Go ahead and make our day.


2 posted on 03/02/2020 3:36:07 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever po)
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To: goldstategop

Go Russia!


3 posted on 03/02/2020 3:37:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

About time the Turkish bullies were taken down.


4 posted on 03/02/2020 3:39:32 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’m glad the US pulled out of that shit-hole.


5 posted on 03/02/2020 3:40:53 PM PST by RonnG (')
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!


6 posted on 03/02/2020 3:42:18 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
I hope the Turks get driven back to central Asia.
7 posted on 03/02/2020 3:47:54 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: griswold3

“That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!”

I see what you did there. For the youngsters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk


8 posted on 03/02/2020 3:58:14 PM PST by ClaytonForester
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Okay, that was written in diplonese. Allow me to translate to English. “We are going to shoot your planes down.”


9 posted on 03/02/2020 3:58:37 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: ClaytonForester

My ear worm version
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rHRd6Cl-tQ


10 posted on 03/02/2020 4:04:54 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I suspect that Russia will give Turkey a bloody nose, and then things will end there. Trump sure as hell has no interest in helping Turkey with their aggression.


11 posted on 03/02/2020 4:11:34 PM PST by BobL (If some people here don't want to prep for Coronavirus, they can explain it to their families)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Well the Russian planes were not safe within shooting range of the Turks a few years ago.


12 posted on 03/02/2020 4:15:45 PM PST by crz
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13 posted on 03/02/2020 4:32:15 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: crz

Sneak attacks are a staple of NATO military strategy.


14 posted on 03/02/2020 4:36:50 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Russia will probably get its clock cleaned. Geography is on Erdogan’s side. He has land access to Syria, and Putin doesn’t.

The easiest way of preventing Turkey from doing whatever it wants in Syria would be an attack across the Russian border with Turkey to force the Turks to divert their forces away from Syria. Problem is Article 5 of the NATO Charter, involving an allied response to attacks against a NATO member’s territory, would come into play. The Article 4 meeting might have been an attempt to gin up NATO support just in case the Russians decide to start bombing Turkish bases from facilities in Russia proper.

It would be interesting to see whether Putin orders airstrikes against Turkey from Russian bases, if the Turks move further into Syria, and perhaps against the Russian air base there. However, I seriously doubt the Russians want to start trading aircraft with the Turks, because they’re pretty expensive. But it could happen, if Erdogan ups the ante. The issue for Putin is that the Turkish air force is a lot more capable than what the Ukrainians and Georgians had, both equipment- and personnel-wise. NATO standards are fairly high, and Turkey is one of the better-armed NATO members.


15 posted on 03/02/2020 5:02:49 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

And when I say the land border with Turkey, I mean Armenia, even though that is separated from Russia proper by countries not necessarily friendly to Russia, such as Georgia and Azerbaijan. One of them could, however, be paid off, on a one-off basis to let supplies through to Armenia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_102nd_Military_Base


16 posted on 03/02/2020 5:08:29 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

It would take Russia about 3-6 months to mobilize for such a war. They could use the Caucasus Region to maneuver but that would take a good bit of time (like Georgia 2008).

I still think there is a lot of hot air going back & forth between these nations. Interesting times for sure.


17 posted on 03/02/2020 5:31:52 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Make Constantinople Great Again!


18 posted on 03/02/2020 5:56:14 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Turkey could probably give the Russians some real problems.


19 posted on 03/02/2020 8:31:44 PM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

For the August War it took several hours to mobilize. Although I don’t expect any war in this case.


20 posted on 03/02/2020 8:34:36 PM PST by NorseViking
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