Posted on 02/07/2016 6:32:29 PM PST by Nachum
The reason Russia is possibly building a new airbase on the Turkish border inside Syria became clearer today as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted Turkey could enter the war on the side of the anti-Assad forces who Russia has been primarily targeting. The Syrian government made major gains against the Sunni opposition in recent weeks as the Syrian city of Aleppo looked to fall from the opposition’s control. Turkey has repeatedly urged the American-led coalition against ISIS to do more to help the anti-Assad forces. “We don’t want to fall into the same mistake in Syria as in Iraq,†Mr. Erdogan said,
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WWIII? Be careful what you wish for.
There are enough Americans who understand
and agree with what Russia is doing to
make going to war with Moscow unthinkable.
I hope Turkey’s military leaders are not that stupid.
I hope our Community-Organizer-in-Chief is . . . nevermind.
Let the Turks have it out with the Russians.
They’ve gone at it before. Many times.
Could we legalese our way out of participation by pointing out that Turkey shot first?
The last thing we need to do is to go to war to overthrow an insignifican dictator who, frankly, is a probably a better human being than his opponents. Not that that is a particularly high bar to clear in Syria.
Turkey = ISIS
And maybe sooner or late the Turks will win one...
I know we won’t, but we should make it clear to Turkey if they wade into Syria they are on their own.
We should not allow Turkey (muslim) to drag us into a war with Ruusia (Christian)
They did win the Crimean War. They were willing to fight to the last Frenchman and Englishman. They are probably hoping for something similar this time too.
yeah, if you invade a country, NATO has no obligation
Russia dare not mess with Nato or loss of the Black Sea. Turkey punched Putin in the nose and he backed down.
Let them beat each other into dust.
Our sole concern is popcorn supply.
HAVE AT IT.
Erdogen= possible pre-cursor of Antichrist ...keep an eye on this dude.
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Turkey’s crazy government has done some crazy and dangerous things, but somehow I doubt they’re nuts enough to go to war against Russia
we will see
ezekiel 38?
It does say they will fight to the death...
“Take me back to Constantinople....”
World War III inches closer... every day under Obama. With 11 months left in office, that’s plenty of time for the abomination of the desolation to fundamentally change, not only America, the entire world.
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