Posted on 08/19/2016 10:07:11 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Russia is pressing Turkey for access to a key airbase used by the US as it tries to extend its influence in the Middle East.
The American-built Incirlik base, about 100km from the Syrian border, is used by NATO and has about 50 US tactical nuclear warheads stored on site.
A senior Russian politician said allowing Russian jets and bombers to use it would be a “logical continuation” of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s efforts to rebuild Turkey’s relations with the Kremlin.
“It just remains to come to an agreement with Erdogan that we get the NATO base Incirlik as our primary airbase,” said Igor Morozov, a member of the Senate committee on international affairs.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
I'm sure Erdogan will drive a hard bargain, but with whom?
Do it before Jan 20.
ANOTHER OBAMA/CLINTON/KERRY FAILURE!!
On an aside here, the Aussies gotta read this as they look to the US for support against Chinese aggression across the entire Pacific Ocean.
Yep. All this happening so fast is NOT a coincidence with 0dunga leaving office on Jan. 20 (hopefully).
If America's 'sphere of influence' can be undermined and degraded, 0dunga is there to do all he can to help.
I sure hope the reports that the nukes are being moved are correct, but with Obama in charge, I have no confidence.
Erdogan’s a b******. I can’t believe Obama is on vacation. Wonder if Hillary is at the vineyard, too. Wanna bet?
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. We still have 5 months of this amateur.
We are now in the time period I was talking about in the post below. I expect this sort of thing to ramp up considerably.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3170217/posts
Lately the news simply fascinates me.
And yes, I used to be Cuban Leaf.
Yes.
nObama is meeting his objectives, collapse of western Christian civilization in one fell swoop!
This is why, when companies let a member of the IT department go, they give him two weeks pay and escort him out immediately. He can do a lot of damage in those two weeks.
Another success for the Obama administration. Losing a NATO airbase to the Russians without a shot being fired. At least they waited to occupy Da Nang and Ton Son Nhut until after we left.
Well obama did tell the russians that he would have more “flexibility” after the election.
After all, obama just flew a plane load of cash to the iranians, and now is try to stall the US on pulling our nukes out of turkey.
In case you haven’t already noticed, putin has been schmoozing both iran and turkey a lot lately.
There’s no such thing as coincidence in politics and power plays.
Hey, I always liked your stuff!
You’re ‘strongman’ leader seems to be Erdogan at this point, with Putin’s backing And Iran’s cooperation...............
It seems that neither side has learned much from history.
Obozo put us in this position
Not good
Obama is so busy trying to give Guantanamo to Cuba before he leaves office, will he also have time to give Incirlik to the Russians?
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