[kabar]

Putin is playing with fire, which is why all he can do is talk tough.

The Turkish Armed Forces collectively rank as the second largest standing military force in NATO, after the U.S. Armed Forces, with an estimated strength in 2015 of 639,551 military, civilian and paramilitary personnel. Turkey is one of five NATO member states which are part of the nuclear sharing policy of the alliance, together with Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. A total of 90 B61 nuclear bombs are hosted at the Incirlik Air Base, 40 of which are allocated for use by the Turkish Air Force in case of a nuclear conflict, but their use requires the approval of NATO.

Anyone familiar with how Turks perform in battle know that they are some of the fiercest soldiers in the world. The Russians want no part of them.

[piytar]

“Anyone familiar with how Turks perform in battle know that they are some of the fiercest soldiers in the world. The Russians want no part of them.”

Laughable. The only countries that could stand up to Russia are the US, Germany, and China.

While Obama may want the US to do so, I doubt our military would follow those orders.

Germany and China have no dog in this fight.

Putin is not the one playing with fire here.

[Travis McGee]

If by “toughest soldier” you mean at raping boy captives etc, yes, they are.

[Jan_Sobieski]

I will bet you 10 to 1 that the Russians can dispatch of the Islamohomos in 1 year assuming NATO stays out

[Mr. Jeeves]

My feeling is that - without the existence of Obama - the Turkish military would have disposed of Erdogan a long time ago and none of this would be happening.