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To: BenLurkin

It might have come to that anyway, but Erdogan couldn't move on that, even if his palace was burning, Israel had to make the first move (it's a punish the innocent world). Turkey opposed Greek, Greek Cypriote, and Israeli gas drilling in the eastern Med; Russia backed the Greeks (and Israelis, but without saying so). Russia and Turkey had been quietly cooperating vis a vis the various occupied minorities ruled by the Turks, or neighboring Turkey. Erdogan repudiated Israel, and in so doing transformed himself and his regime into the next Assad -- but before Assad's dynasty started to crumble. Rapprochement now buys him some time, perhaps, but Turkish civil war is likely; Zero et al are mainly concerned with avoiding that for as long as possible, and luckily, they could scapegoat the Jews in the process: Hamas is supporting one of the factions fighting Assad. Zero and Lurch went to Israel, Jordan, etc, and convinced Bibi that it was time to mend fences with the Turks. Putin was seriously thrown by this. Russia's prospects for extricating itself from the Syrian mess were not good before, now they are worse. I don't think the full import of the recent developments will be understood, or at least discussed in public, for at least a few years. Syria's civil war has been going on for two years now, and appears to be viable for perhaps another year.
9 posted on 04/06/2013 1:49:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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10 posted on 04/06/2013 2:12:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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