After Turkish â€˜stab in the backâ€™, Putin twists the knife

After a Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian bomber in November, President Vladimir Putin complained Turkey's leadership had stabbed Russia in the back. Now he is twisting the knife by cultivating Ankara's old enemy, the Kurds.

Last week, Selahattin Demirtas, leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic party, met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow and criticised Turkey for bringing down the Su-24.

It is thought unlikely that Moscow would directly fund Kurdish guerillas inside Turkey, but last month the Free Syrian Army's top commander claimed Russia had dropped weapons to Kurdish YPG forces fighting against rebel brigades in Aleppo province in Syria.

The friend of my friend is my friend.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

As practiced by Winston Churchill and FDR, Putin is my friend. All one has to do is look at his enemy list and the name at or near the top of that list is Barack Obama.

Turkey may have opened a can of both worms and whup-ass by dealing with the Russians so rudely. Should Putin go all-out and do his version of arming and supporting the Kurds, this could involve a significant portion of Turkish real estate as well, as the Kurds would then be on the march to organize their OWN state of Kurdistan, which shall eventually involve Iraq and Iran as well, and of course, the portion of Syria that would be included as part of the deal.

Kurds are not, for the most part, Muslim, but Yazidi. Yazidism is in many ways related to the older religion, Zoroastrianism, the principle religion of Persia that was largely driven out of the Middle East by the onslaught of Islam. Kurds are a particularly hardy and intransigent, even truculent, people, and they have resisted conversion for centuries,

Frankly, the Kurds scare the living crap out of the Muslims, be they Sunni, Shi’ite, Alawite, or even the Sufi.

Alawites tend to combine many more facets of Zoroastrianism with their practice of Islam than do the Shi’ites or Sunnis, while the Sufis, what’s important is approaching the inner meaning of God through mysticism. They try to reach an understanding of the hidden meanings of the world. They tend to be less wedded to an orthodox reading of the Quran. As a consequence, they have an open relationship with other religions.

But even all that may not save them from the wrath of aroused Kurds on the march.

I knew two guys in high school that came from that reason- those people are STRONG!!!

Him and his brother could lift the back end of their car. A famous strong man from that area of the country could pick up 200 pound dumbbells with one hand. PJ O’Rourke, in his book title “A Parliament of Whores” [a MUST READ for freepers] described a game they played in that country where they ride on horseback and lean over the side at full gallop and pick up a dead calf carcass and carry it across a goal line for points... He said he could not pick it up with both hands.

Turkey may have opened a can of both worms and whup-ass by dealing with the Russians so rudely.

The Motherland calls!
She too has a terrible swift sword with fateful lightning!

Maybe best for all that Mother Russia belays her sword and crushes the serpent with her heel.

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