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War Looms In The Mediterranean And Threatens To Entangle The Great Powers
The Federalist ^ | July 29, 2020 | Sumantra Maitra

Posted on 07/29/2020 7:59:37 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: BubbaBasher

What part of the North Atlantic is Turkey on?


21 posted on 07/29/2020 10:27:28 AM PDT by Professional
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To: Jeff Chandler

US military will make matters worse. This is internal to Libya - let Egypt and France supply the anti-Turkish forces with means. They will then win.

Erdogan is desperate for a “win” as this year is election year


22 posted on 07/29/2020 10:38:13 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Psalm 73

The Turks are bad ass fighters not surrender monkeys like the French. And Italians are not famous for their fighting ability since the Goths took them down.


23 posted on 07/29/2020 10:56:00 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Joe Boucher
"The Turks are bad ass fighters..."

This will be a series of naval and aviation battles, not land battles.

The French will kick their asses. Not a big fan of the French, but their navy and air assets (and personnel) are way above whatever the Turks could muster in the eastern Med.

24 posted on 07/29/2020 11:26:00 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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To: BubbaBasher

Erdogan is in sore need of a dirt nap. That is the opinion of a pro-American Turkish co-worker.


25 posted on 07/29/2020 12:27:41 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: BubbaBasher

“Turkey needs to be kicked out of NATO ASAP.”

Like yesterday.


26 posted on 07/29/2020 12:32:04 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Nothingburger

Don’t forget Rachmaninoff. And Tolstoy.


27 posted on 07/29/2020 12:34:04 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Psalm 73

Well, the French Foreign Legion are good fighters, anyway.


28 posted on 07/29/2020 12:35:00 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Joe Boucher

“The Turks are bad ass fighters not surrender monkeys like the French.”

I doubt seriously this would involve much of a land war. The Turks can be dogged ground troops, but they suffer from lack of imagination. Turks can be formidable on defense, but on offense they are not that good.


29 posted on 07/29/2020 12:42:32 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

Quite right.

Actually my favorite Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich.


30 posted on 07/29/2020 12:44:11 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Kaslin

Several things at work. Turkey is trying to shut off the proposed gas pipeline from Israel and Cyprus to Greece and Italy. They have claimed the entire ocean from Turkey to Libya.

And in some ways this is an extension of the war in Syria. In Syria Turkey’s jihadis (Obama’s jihadis) are fighting to take control of Damascus. As they are driven out there, they are being transferred to Libya to fight on there. In both places they are opposed by Russia.


31 posted on 07/29/2020 3:53:21 PM PDT by marron
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To: Professional

Good one!

However, geographically speaking, both the Mediterranean and Black Seas are extensions of the Atlantic.


32 posted on 07/29/2020 5:06:57 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Kaslin

If Turkey were to invade Poland from the rear would Greece help


33 posted on 07/29/2020 6:59:22 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Nothingburger

Don’t forget Shafarevich.


34 posted on 08/10/2020 3:48:05 PM PDT by ScholarWarrior
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To: Psalm 73
And despite our making fun of their surrender proclivity, they are tenacious fighters, (and often dirty - just ask the Algerians).

To be fair, it was their sorryass political leaders who were the surrender monkeys.

35 posted on 08/10/2020 4:11:15 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Ephesians 6:12)
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To: ScholarWarrior

Thanks for responding to my post. I have to admit I was unfamiliar with the great mathematician/Soviet dissident.

Based on what I gleaned from his Wikipedia entry, Igor Shafarevich lived an incredibly full life.

I went to Amazon and read excepts from “The Socialist Phenomenon” and was impressed enough to order a copy of the book.

The popular image of mathematicians is that they’re lost outside their world of numbers.

But just reading the introduction to “The Socialist Phenomenon” was enough to convince me that Shafarevich saw clearly how forcing “equality” upon people isn’t just the rotten fruit of Marxism, but a false doctrine as old as civilization itself.


36 posted on 08/11/2020 6:45:06 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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