Posted on 02/05/2016 9:46:39 AM PST by amorphous
...The Russian-Turkish conflict in Syria is not going to be an easy one for either party. If Russia threatens to cripple Turkey by cutting-off the gas supplies, it will also hurt Russia's economy while Muslim Azerbaijan will gladly provide Turkey with a new gas-hookup bringing the Turkic states closer to Istanbul and further from Moscow. On the other hand, the increasing Muslim global menace is the fire necessary for Christendom's refinement, unity, and even bringing Jerusalem (which no longer trusts Turkey) closer to Cyprus.
This conflict is the new equilibrium that will create the neo-Ottoman hegemony to form the nations of Ezekiel 38. The crucial factor to be considered is that if Turkey and Russia had a full out blown war in Syria, Turkey will initially be the victor. Putin's military options are constrained. He has only limited forces in Syria and the Trans-Caucasus area bordering Turkey, while Ankara has the second-largest fleet of F-16s in the world and the second-largest army in NATO. It also has logistical and geographical advantages that include control of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, Russia’s egress to Syria.
But even if Turkey initially wins, it will eventually be crushed by Russia, but only in the end. This is rooted in history stretching back to the Ottoman Empire. At one point or another, the Ottoman Turks ruled over or defeated all of modern Turkey's neighbors except Russia. Between the fifteenth century, when the Ottoman and Russian Empires became neighbors, and 1917, the year of the Bolshevik revolution, the two peoples fought at least seventeen long wars, all of them instigated - and won - by the Russians...
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I’m putting in a Maginot Line tomorrow in my back yard. Me unprepared...no way!
Absolute and total Bunk.
They've had a good business relationship, that's far from being "allies" and given that as a member of NATO the Turks have never shared military and intelligence information with Russia calling them allies is either stupidity or just more of the disinformation drivel that flows through the media.
have a lovely day
I can hear the hoofbeats of the coming four horsemen. War is on the horizon—grim and terrible It will be a war that will define the future of Human Civilization. This war—we may not win. The east west lines will blur. It will be Russia, Iran, China vs. USA, Japan and India—with a few other nations in the mix. Naval Battles, fighting in the Middle East and Europe—maybe So. America as well. Two years, maybe three and it will be over. This time we may well lose Alaska (to Russia) and Hawaii (to China). New reparations to China/Russia and forced migration of ten Million Chinese to USA—all school age children to learn Russian/Chinese. USA will be a 3rd world nation—only good for raising food and buying stuff from Chinese factories. See you on the breadline , Comrade.
Walid is not familiar enough with Russian capabilities.
If "this is it" - meaning all out war, I feel certain it will be a "great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be." - borrowing words from Matthew 24.
If so, there will be no more nations of men.
Daniel 2:44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
A new age may be upon us. I hope to see you when the smoke clears, brother. :-)
LOL! Seriously, the damn trenches weren’t much different than a slit latrine after awhile. WWII was horrible. (As if there is a good one)
Remember Belgium!!!
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