Posted on 12/19/2016 10:21:25 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Monday’s assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey came just as relations between the two countries were warming up following a cold war over the Turkish downing of a Russian fighter jet.
Russia was accused of violating Turkish airspace in October 2015 — during the start of Moscow’s intervention in the Syrian civil war — leading Turkey to warn that it would open fire the next time.
It made good on the threat less than three months later, when Turkish F-16 fighters shot down a Russian Sukhoi SU-24 warplane near the border of Turkey’s Hatay region on Nov. 24, 2015.
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned that incident as a “stab in the back delivered by the accomplices of terrorists,” and Moscow quickly announced it was moving a naval cruiser loaded with high-tech missiles closer to Syria’s Latakia province to protect its aircraft.
Days later, Putin ratcheted up tensions by accusing Turkey of letting ISIS operate a “living oil pipe” across the Syrian border, and the head of Russia’s state-owned news agency blasted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on TV as “an unrestrained and deceitful man hooked on cheap oil from the barbaric caliphate. . .’’
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These assassinations involving Chechen dissidents are well known.
Every faction in Syria, from pro-government to ISIS to even independents have a number of Russian speakers.
Apparently the Russians have been in the region in one form or another for a long time. The shooting war in Chechnya ended but not before spreading a lower intensity conflict in other areas of the Russian Federation. Chechens get a lot of sympathy in the Muslim world.
Erdogan needs to read some history. It has been the dream of every Russian Tsar to take Constantinople and the Dardanelles. Putin has to be thinking of this too.
Bad business, poking and prodding a bear. I wish I could find it in me to give a damn what happens to Erdogan, but all I can think of is nuclear fallout and wind direction.
I am waiting for the day when once again Orthodox mass is celebrated in Hagia Sophia.
I am waiting for the day when once again Orthodox mass is celebrated in Hagia Sophia.
We need to kick those muslim Turkish bastards out of NATO immediately. There’s no way we should defend them against Russia.
This might be Erdogan’s
‘Waterloo’. You can only push your formerly communist-KGB neighbor so far, before they revert to old ways of settling scores. Erdogan is becoming a danger to the EU anyway, with his penchant for using unwanted, unvetted Syrian rapefugees as bargaining chips for power.
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