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To: Navy Patriot

Do you think Russia is playing with Turkey?

Sucker punch? Take all the chips?


12 posted on 03/31/2018 10:29:23 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
Do you think Russia is playing with Turkey?

No, I think Russia is finding common interests with Turkey.

Take the Kurds as an example, they have no common interests with Russia, and they have not offered to create any.

Turkey, on the other hand has significant common interests in trade with Russia, and has learned how to offer them.

But the most important Russian interest is to prevent a gas pipeline to Southern Europe bypassing Russian control.

Turkey has offered this to Russia, the common part is Turkey will get a transit fee, probably better than the EU would pay them if the US controlled that pipeline.

Additionally, Russia does not require Turkey to Kiss NATO ass, or EU ass, or French ass, or German ass, or Brit ass, or US ass, or even Kurd ass.

All Erdogan has to do is put up with Assad getting most of his territory back, not really hard to do considering past relations.

Of course the US could change this dynamic by simply opening fire on Turkish Troops.

14 posted on 03/31/2018 2:33:55 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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