Posted on 11/12/2010 8:47:52 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
China and Turkey have conducted another military exercise.Sources said China has sent army special operations forces for an exercise in Turkey. They said the exercise in early November lasted a week at the commando school in Turkey. "This was an exercise planned nearly a year ago," a Turkish source said. This marked the second major military exercise between China and Turkey in as many months. In October, the two countries, in the first such mission with a NATO member, participated in a combat air exercise called Anatolian Eagle
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The Russians are planning to sell S-300’s and other hardware to Turkey now as well... And possibly invite Turkey to observe in CSTO operations.
After eating the mixed Chinese/Turkish field ration, you are hungry two hours later and your bunghole is awfully sore.
The next 2 years are the most dangerous since the Cuban missle crisis. Obama will be at his weakest. Our enemies saw America’s weakness in a similar situation under Carter. We have not been weaker economically since the Great Depression and today have more serious international competitors. Our military is spread thin. We have never been more divided as a people. I will not be surprised by a Chinese invasion of Taiwan coordinated with a North Korean invasion of the South Korea. Or by Turkey leaving NATO to simultaneously lead militant Muslim nations like Syria and Iran in an independent joint attack on Israel.
Interesting.Turkey just purchased 7.8 billion for Patriot missiles.Turkey has quietly decided to buy variants of three different S-300 missile systems from Belarus and Ukraine to test them at the Konya training center
Interesting.Turkey just purchased 7.8 billion for Patriot missiles.Turkey has quietly decided to buy variants of three different S-300 missile systems from Belarus and Ukraine to test them at the Konya training center
A newly united Russian Federation or Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and a few other ‘stans) may decide to take Eastern Europe back while promising Western Europe that they will not attack them as long as they stay out of the war.
No need to threaten them with military action. Western Europe gets all of its heating oil from Russia these days. A revived Soviet Union could just freeze them out anytime they choose.
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