LOL. Do you really think there is going to be a stand up fight? Are the Russians going to invade Turkey and risk nuclear war? How many casualties are they willing to suffer taking on NATO's second largest military force, one that has access to 40 nuclear weapons?
Whose side are you on? The KGB thug who invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea or NATO?
The Russians play chess. They will cripple Turkey economically. In fact, they have already started to do so.
Russia won’t start full scale military action vs. Turkey because of NATO. But if Turkey is stupid enough to start a fight, they will lose. BADLY.
And I doubt the US would step in to save them, even if/when Obama orders our military to do so.
As far as whose side am I on, that’s an easy question:
(1) God
(2) My family (including my dear friends)
(3) Texas
(4) Free Republic
(5) The US
(6) Freedom loving parts of Europe (what’s left of it)
(7) Russia if they continue taking on worse monsters
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(10093745) Turkey
Oh, to add:
(6.1) The Kurds
(6.2) The Ukraine — yes, this is a contradiction with (7). It is a complicated world. And an increasingly ugly one.
But I can’t exactly do much on those scores. Sigh.