Posted on 02/15/2016 11:12:55 AM PST by SatinDoll
On February 4th we reported that Turkey is preparing for a military incursion into Syria. We have warned as far back as October 2014, that Turkey will sooner or later find the excuse for a military incursion into Syria.
Was that speculation? Not anymore. The news now confirms, Turkey’s foreign minister said that his country and Saudi Arabia are planning to launch ground operations in Syria.
In the wake of Saudi Arabia sending in ground troops on Thursday stationed in Turkey, the Russian prime minister said the move could spark a new world war. **A ground operation draws everyone taking part in it into a war,** he told the newspaper Handelsblatt. **The Americans and our Arab partners must consider whether or not they want a permanent war,** he added.
Turkey is in fact already shelling into Syria. In two messages sent Sunday to the UN secretary general and the president of the UN Security Council, Damascus also denounced recent statements made by the Turkish prime minister justifying the shelling of Kurdish armed group, YPG, in Syria.
The Turkish military also shelled Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces at the Menagh air base near Azez in northern Syria as well as Syrian regime forces on Saturday, continuing to hit PYD targets on Sunday while demanding that the PYD withdraw from positions near the border even though the PYD warned on Sunday that they would resist any Turkish intervention.
US Department of State Spokesman John Kirby urged Turkey on Saturday to halt military strikes into Syria.
**We have also seen reports of artillery fire from the Turkish side of the border and urged Turkey to cease such fires,** stated Kirby.
In other words, the Turkish-Syrian war has already begun.
Syria’s foreign minister warned on Saturday that Saudi or other foreign troops entering his country would **return home in wooden coffins**.
Riyadh said on Saturday it had deployed warplanes to Turkey’s Incirlik airbase in order to **intensify** its operations against the Islamic State group in Syria. Turkey said that they will be meeting soon with Saudi Arabia to **finalize details** of ground operations.
Turkey claims that the troops will be combating against ISIS, Turkish media reported Saturday. Mevlut Cavusoglu, was quoted in the Yeni Safak newspaper Saturday as saying that **Turkey and Saudi Arabia may launch an operation from the land**. Turkey, a nation which did nothing to fight ISIS, is now interfering because Syria with the aid of Russia had the Aleppo gains and is defeating ISIS and Turkey wants to claim the victory.
Iran is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has sent weapons, money and military advisers to Syria to help bolster his forces.
The region is about [to] ignite. First of all, the entire airspace is defended with Russian S-400 missiles, which can hit Saudi and Turkish aircraft from inside Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
This will also rise in tensions and intensify the situation between Iran and Saudi Arabia, especially following the kingdoms execution of a Shiite cleric and attacks on Saudi diplomatic posts in the Islamic Republic. The execution of the cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, inflamed a 1,400-year-old conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
In 2014 we analyzed:
**What we should ask is this: why would Turkey allow the pawn it created and aided to be sacrificed in the end? … The plan is obvious, it is to oust Bashar Al-Assad which has quite the implications. Firstly the Turkish-Russian differences over Syria could easily deepen, with adverse consequences for both parties, in coming months or years. Despite vigorous efforts by Russian and Turkish policy makers, differences over Syria threaten to disrupt what has been a harmonious relationship. Leaders in Ankara are calling for President Bashar al-Assad immediate departure, while Moscow continues to support his regime if not al-Assad personally. In the future, we will begin to see the rift between Russia and Turkey.**
Mind you this was way before Russia’s involvement. Anyone questions today that between Turkey and Russia there is an obvious **rift**? Even in August 2014 we predicted: **Turkey by design intends to usher itself as a savior by creating, aiding and abetting its pawn, ISIS, to make havoc than intervene to end of the crisis in order to bolster its image as the ideal Islamic state to both Muslims and the West.**
Anyone now doubts? To learn about how we perceive the outcome from here forward when Turkey invades Syria read our analysis:
Turkey Is Preparing To Invade Syria And Will Commence War With Russia And Spark World War III.
Neither Turkey or Saudi Arabia have anything to gain. It’s a damn civil war and Russia has been an ally of Syria for 50 years. How stupid is the world??
Russian troops in the wrong place at the right time will facilitate a wider war in the Middle East.
Think the Russians are pissed at Turkey now? Wait till a few of their troops are wounded or killed by Turkish shelling. It will then be on....for certain.
In a war between the Turks, the Saudis, and the Russians, who do we side with?
How about we put them on notice that who defends the ethnic Christians has our support. Who executes Christians does not.
‘How stupid is the world??’
A rhetorical question, right?
I’m with the Russians, I hope they liberate “Constantinople” from Islamic occupation.
Back in 1941, FDR made the decision to support Russia because the Russians were fighting an enemy that was a greater threat than Russia was. FDR was right.
We are in a similar situation today. Putin's Russia is a threat. But ISIS (and radical Islam) is a much greater threat. We should support Russia, and tell Turkey that we do NOT have your back.
The original title of this article was:
The Islamic Alliance Of Turkey and Saudi Arabia Are Invading Syria While Christian Russia Threatens World War III
Russia is protecting Christians in the Near East, not our nation under President Obama.
Agreed. There are certain things in this world that just don't sit right. One of them is the status of Constantinople. My hope: Turks out, Greeks in.
And once again the arms manufacturers are gearing up to make their usual fortunes upon the blood of millions.
Turkey is very bad, definitely. My Turkish friend, 10 years ago, said, “It is very bad for Christians in Turkey. Erdogan is a very bad man.” It is definitely not Ataturk’s vision. Turkey should NOT be in the EU nor even, maybe, in NATO.
Exactly.
I’m with the Russians right now too. They are Orthodox Christian. They get it about Muslims, having had them as bad neighbors for a thousand years +. They get it about ISIS, and they are prepared to do something about it. And they get it about Obama.
Not one American serviceman should fight and die for that thug, Erdogan.
While we were distracted by the Russians during the Cold War, the Saudis were building mosques in America and corrupting our leaders. I'm with the Russians.
Turkey Is Preparing To Invade Syria And Will Commence War With Russia And Spark World War III
http://shoebat.com/2016/02/04/92771/
Better article.
In other words, the potential for a perfect storm. The real conflict is between Iran and the Saudis for hegemony in the Gulf.
Yuri Orlov: But in the Iran Iraq war you sold arms to both sides.
Simeon Weisz: Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?
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