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Ruh Roh

The Russkies could mount an assault from the Caspian Sea & cross the northern part of Iran into Iraq in no time flat, or maybe come thru the Black Sea then Georgia and surrounding nations.

This whole thing could well be about to get just a little bit hotter folks.., the choices to follow will not be as bright-line/black-white/clear-cut as some might suggest.

What say you?

RW.

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
Gog Eze 39:1, Rev 20:8
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And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
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Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
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Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

Aside from the age on cultural difference between them, which is spoken of a bit in the post, the fact remains that Turkey would like very much to expand its economic finger into Iraq.
Turkish business see a lot of good opportunities in establishing commercial ventures with the Iraqi in the northern parts of Iraq and into the traditional Kurdish area.
With Turkey being allied with the US and NATO, and with the understanding the Turks surely did not help us one bit in the invasion of Iraq, perhaps the US will be able to broker some deals between the Iraqi government and the Turks.
At least I would hope so. Obviously it is not just Turkey, but also Syria which has a Kurdish population that is a thorn in their side.
Perhaps deals will go down. The Turks know they are putting the US in a very difficult position. We cannot be sending our troops against Turkish troops. And it really would not make sense in the short term nor long term, IMHO, for such a thing to be allowed to come to past.
The IG can hardly afford just now to be worrying about having to muster it's new army to border areas.
A lot is going to ride on how Iraqi president Talabani deals with the Turkish government in the weeks to come by all looks of things.
To have the new Iraqi army that the US is primarily training to protect it's country to have to fight with the Turkish army, a US NATO allie is not going to go over very well.
The Russians must be observing this very carefully as well as Iran. It could really screw up the US's long term goals in this region, as we can well understand.

"The Russkies could mount an assault from the Caspian Sea & cross the northern part of Iran into Iraq in no time flat, or maybe come thru the Black Sea then Georgia and surrounding nations."

The Russians can't even handle Chechnya.
You think they could mess with Iraq supported by the US?
As to Russian into Iran, they do not even have a common border.
Time to buy a clue Vanna.