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Russia presses Turkey for access to US Incirlik air base
The Australian ^ | 12:00AM August 20, 2016 | Hannah Lucinda Smith

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crookedhillary; incirlik; isis; obamalegacy; russia; russiaturkey
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To: Navy Patriot

Obozo put us in this position

Not good


21 posted on 08/19/2016 10:30:15 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Will88

Can they also give Constantinople to the Russians?


22 posted on 08/19/2016 10:31:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Navy Patriot

and Obama goes Golfing


23 posted on 08/19/2016 10:32:18 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mr. Douglas

If one is unethical that is true. But the folks who do that have been doing it all along just in case


24 posted on 08/19/2016 10:32:58 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: katana
Another success for the Obama administration. Losing a NATO airbase to the Russians without a shot being fired.

I prefer Reagan's diplomacy of trust when he lost the Soviet Union (to history) without firing a shot.

25 posted on 08/19/2016 10:34:35 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Mr. Douglas

“And yes, I used to be Cuban Leaf.”

...why aren’t you still? Did you get transmogrified or something?


26 posted on 08/19/2016 10:40:08 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite

The name never really fit. My neighbors call me Mr. Douglas because of my situation. Think Green Acres.”

Cuban Leaf was a name I created on a lark and never really liked it.


27 posted on 08/19/2016 10:41:29 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Mr. Douglas
"We still have 5 months..."

We won't make it in one piece.

28 posted on 08/19/2016 10:43:50 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Mr. Douglas
"Cuban Leaf was a name I created on a lark and never really liked it."

So now you're Chip's dad?

(And now I can't get that theme song out of my head)

29 posted on 08/19/2016 10:46:00 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Psalm 73

We won’t make it in one piece.


I don’t think so either. Frankly, I think it’s possible that any day you could try to use your credit card and find that it will not work. Anywhere. That almost happened in Summer of 2008. That’s why we got QE. But it’s no longer working.

And the stock markets are eerily quiet.


30 posted on 08/19/2016 10:46:08 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Navy Patriot

The writing is on the wall. Australia, Japan, Philippines, and South Korea need to provide for their own defense and to make their own deals. Free Asia might want to look to India as a defense partner.


31 posted on 08/19/2016 10:47:20 AM PDT by buckalfa (In your heart you know he's right.)
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To: Mr. Douglas

“Think Green Acres.”

I bet Kentucky is a fine place for it, too.

I’m retired now and relocating from Maryland to Texas...sometime. Kentucky was second on my list.


32 posted on 08/19/2016 10:49:51 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: buckalfa
The writing is on the wall. Australia, Japan, Philippines, and South Korea need to provide for their own defense and to make their own deals.

Agreed, and best wishes to them.

33 posted on 08/19/2016 10:50:14 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: katana

If we do leave we MUST leave the airbase in rubble, totally unusable. WE built it and WE should destroy it. Might use one of those nukes to do the job so it will be contaminated for a while.......


34 posted on 08/19/2016 10:51:31 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mr. Douglas
My neighbors call me Mr. Douglas because of my situation. Think Green Acres.”

Post a picture of your wife.

35 posted on 08/19/2016 10:52:31 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Navy Patriot

Best election ever!!!


36 posted on 08/19/2016 11:04:19 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Navy Patriot

Let’s just pack it up, bulldoze the buildings and crater the runways on our way out....


37 posted on 08/19/2016 11:54:50 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Navy Patriot

Uh... Congress? Hello....


38 posted on 08/19/2016 11:57:11 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Navy Patriot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JpPU-SwcbE

Obama is indeed more flexible after the election.


39 posted on 08/19/2016 11:58:13 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: Mr. Douglas

It is amazing. I am not afraid of Russia. What worries me most today is the London drift toward sharia.


40 posted on 08/19/2016 12:35:22 PM PDT by MarMema
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