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Did Russia Just Threaten Turkey With Nuclear Weapons
Jewish Business News ^ | February 22, 2016

Posted on 02/22/2016 8:09:10 AM PST by Strategy

The US investigative journalist Robert Parry has made an astonishing claim - and one has gone completely unnoticed.

He is reporting that the Russian government has warned Erdogan that Russia is prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons to defend its Syrian strike force from Turkish attack.

Parry's exact words are as follows:

"A source close to Russian President Vladimir Putin told me that the Russians have warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Moscow is prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons if necessary to save their troops in the face of a Turkish-Saudi onslaught.

Since Turkey is a member of NATO, any such conflict could quickly escalate into a full-scale nuclear confrontation."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Russia
KEYWORDS: agitprop; astroturf; erdogan; lyndonlarouche; lyndonlarouchebs; paidrussiantrolls; putinsbuttboys; robertparry; russia; russianstooge; russianstooges; russiaturkey; saudiarabia; syria; syriawar; tacticalnukes; turkey; vladtheimploder
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To: G Larry
I didn’t know Putin was protecting the Kurds?

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Putin pulled off a brilliant piece of diplomacy and pretty much said he backed Kurdistan. The Syrian Kurds then switched over to Russia's side and opened an office in Moscow - sort of a future embassy.

The Russians twisted Assad's arm in accepting this because the Kurds would straddle the Turkish-Syrian border and serve as a buffer state and cut off the Turkish pipeline to the Syrian rebels.

21 posted on 02/22/2016 8:34:09 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: musicman

I noticed that the UK Daily Mail published an article on 2/20/2016 discussing that EU countries had warned Turkey that if hostilities with Russia escalated into an armed conflict,, they should not depend on NATO support.

Link here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3455934/Nato-warns-Turkey-t-count-support-conflict-Russia-tensions-escalate.html


22 posted on 02/22/2016 8:35:02 AM PST by MNGal
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To: G Larry

Kurds are not ISIS so yes Putnam is protecting the Kurds.


23 posted on 02/22/2016 8:38:11 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: MNGal

Boom!


24 posted on 02/22/2016 8:39:52 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MNGal

Thank you for the link!!


25 posted on 02/22/2016 8:40:21 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: MNGal

Not credible, did not Merkel just the other day call for a no fly zone over Syria. A no fly zone only helps Turkey and hurts Russia.


26 posted on 02/22/2016 8:42:28 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: jpsb

“Not credible, did not Merkel just the other day call for a no fly zone over Syria. A no fly zone only helps Turkey and hurts Russia.”

That may very well be. It’s hard to tell these days.


27 posted on 02/22/2016 8:44:00 AM PST by MNGal
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To: Strategy

Turkish-Saudi onslaught. There’s a belly laugh.

L


28 posted on 02/22/2016 8:46:18 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: pgkdan

But if you saw the full interview, the interviewer was laughing at the Saudi which in itself was funny. The same Saudis, who are getting their collective butts kicked in Yemen, and doing the Iraqi Army Maneuver with its expensive weapons ...


30 posted on 02/22/2016 8:50:21 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: jpsb

We were supposed to be helping the Kurds but it was all talk.


31 posted on 02/22/2016 8:52:10 AM PST by Rusty0604 (oh the stories I could tell. but I really don't think scalia's death is suspiciou.)
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To: Strategy

Turkey & Saudi Arabia should realize that Syria is a sovereign nation ruled by an elected president. Any attack on that country by foreign powers is an invasion that can be legitimately defended against by that nation & its allies - Russia, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Unlike Iraq & Afghanistan, there is no broad coalition of countries, backed by the UN Security Council, with authorization to invade & subjugate Syria.

Turkey’s proposed actions against Syria are probably illegal & don’t measure up to the requirements of NATO to trigger that alliances treaty. Obama will certainly not back Turkey’s aggression, nor will the EU, both too cowardly to act.


32 posted on 02/22/2016 8:55:24 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: dirtboy

He may or may not be a loon, but even loons can be right sometimes. Bear in mind that the Russians and Turks have been blood enemies for centuries. In the depths of their Slavic souls the Russians would love to open up a can of nuclear fire on a few Turkish divisions. And the Turks are very uncomfortable with Russians on their southeast border in a de facto alliance with the Kurds. Plus there is a precedent for the Russians to mention the “N” word. Warning off an aggressor with the threat of tactical nukes if their tripwire forces are attacked was and is US policy in Korea and Europe.


34 posted on 02/22/2016 9:03:05 AM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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To: McGruff

“...environmentally friendly ...”

Well... they glow “green”, after all....


35 posted on 02/22/2016 9:05:00 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: fuente

I don’t think Rusia will nuke Turkey itself. I do however believe they would wait for a sizable Turkish force to encroach in Syria and nuke the Turkish troops on Syrian land. That is a checkmate and a half.


36 posted on 02/22/2016 9:07:00 AM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

Zactly!


37 posted on 02/22/2016 9:08:41 AM PST by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: Strategy
It's not a concern.

Turkey and the Saudis were never going to invade Syria, in spite of their bluster.

38 posted on 02/22/2016 9:13:33 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Strategy

If they do, that would leave a bad carbon footprint! LOL!


39 posted on 02/22/2016 9:14:59 AM PST by JME_FAN
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To: Strategy

They would just love to have the excuse to use those same weapons to take and keep open the Bosporus, the sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles.


40 posted on 02/22/2016 9:17:26 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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