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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past; Vendome
This is not about Turkey but about Poland and the Baltic states and ultimately about Germany. As weak as NATO is, it nevertheless is what we have to hold Western Europe together against the nuclear might of Russia and Russia's near monopoly of gas and oil supply to places like Germany.

The breakup of that alliance resulting in a realignment of Germany with Russia and China are the possible consequences of a broken NATO and of missteps in Mideast. We must not confuse Russian adventurism in the Mideast with noble motives anymore than we should ascribe noble motives to an increasingly Islamist Turkey. We should begin to think strategically instead of reacting emotionally to Isis. Yes kill Isis, that is relatively easy if we had a commander-in-chief with the will to do so. But the long-term consequences of a realignment of the balance of power in Europe and the Mideast is a whole new dimension of threat.

Isis is not the ultimate danger, a disastrous inversion of the balance of power in the middle East is the danger because it will be possessed of much of the world's oil, nuclear weapons, and jihadist fanaticism.


62 posted on 11/24/2015 8:31:52 PM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

No question about it....


64 posted on 11/24/2015 8:33:29 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: nathanbedford

We should begin to think strategically

Which Rubio is NOT doing.


65 posted on 11/24/2015 8:34:24 PM PST by WilliamIII
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To: nathanbedford

I thought about that but, disagree.

If Puti bitch slaps the amd pawns America, there is a chance we get our dander up and right the ship, with prejudice.

Might even hurt some feelings as well....


94 posted on 11/24/2015 9:00:08 PM PST by Vendome (they arDon't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: nathanbedford

The Cold War is over and Russia is more capitalist than the U.S.


100 posted on 11/24/2015 9:03:00 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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