Posted on 04/23/2016 8:07:17 AM PDT by bkopto
According to state-owned Россия-24 news channel, President Vladimir Putin addressed a delegation of Ukrainian Orthodox Church and reiterated that nothing can shake Russia's perpetual blood alliance with Ukraine in spite of all malicious efforts exerted by the ruling junta in Kiev, adding, " rising neo-Fascism in Ukraine is like the infectious Gangrene which can spread across the European continent , and we, the people of the Russian Federation and descendents of the Soviet Union , we are determined to stop this plague."
"Should Turkey not stop supporting al-Qaeda's Syria branch, I am indeed eager to end the job the late Tsar Nicholas II left unfinished. During the World War I , He [Tsar] sought to restore Constantinople (Istanbul) to Christendom and protect Russian maritime security by liberating Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits but fate prevented him," TASS Russian News Agency cited President Putin as saying on Saturday. We also advocate Greek sovereignty over the Cyprus, added Putin, and call the Turkish regime to end its decades-long occupation of this Mediterranean island.
Referring to five-year-old Syrian crisis, Mr. Putin launched a scathing attack on Turkish president's dreadful dreams of breathing life into dead Ottoman Empire by supporting al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria and Iraq, saying prospects for a lasting cease-fire in Syria remains doubtful due to Ankara's war-like agenda and its vicious alliance with Saudi Arabia.
“rising neo-Fascism in Ukraine”
1) What the heck is that supposed to mean?
Putin wants to bully former member states of the USSR, and Warsaw Pact nations; I am skeptical of his assessment of the Ukraine.
2) Is there any real problem with the Ukraine, aside from its independence from Russia?
I’ll play the genocide card. Between 5 and 10 million Ukrainians were murdered by Stalin between 1931 and 1932. The Ukrainian holocaust should be as prominent in our minds as the Jewish holocaust.
He ought to just do it now.
Next year in Constantinople
You gotta love the guy sometimes
Btw
Sounds good to me
Turkish women could get used to Christendom pretty fast I would think
I knew a Turk Colombian gal once
Not religious....at all....very not all......like as in she could be flying with wings in an illustration for Danté
Make that ROCK they walk around/worship Radioactive !
“Now THAT would put the muzzies back on their heels.”
Russia has myriad historical, strategic interests in the region and there's no good reason for us to attempt to deny their exercise.
I DO understand the emotional, gut level reaction to seeing Russia win ANYTHING or prevail ANYWHERE. I fought the Cold War.
But it's time to recognize Russia has real interests and the pursuit of them will make for a more stable world in the long run.
In the vast majority of cases their interests do not conflict with ours.
Meanwhile the hated GOP lies on its back to the Islamic
terrorists, offering up the American People
for the promise that the EXEMPT will be killed LAST;
as the White Mosque DELIVERS Islamic terrorists
to the Homeland, and nuclear weapons to
the terrorists overseas.
No wonder Putin sounds normal.
My BIL is Turkish born and bred, now a proud American. He hates Erdogan with a passion!
And erect a monument to the heroism of Constantine XI and Giovanni Justiniani while you’re at it. I have to keep reminding myself that Putin is a really really bad guy.
We are still fighting the Cold war
I so need that as a bumper sticker. On a magnetic backing, of course, because some people would not respect my freedom of expression and would key my car or install a car bomb.
Ergodan is undoing Ataturk
Vlad doesn’t bluff, he means what he says.
Turkey is the snake in NATO. Actually most of the EU countries support unvetted immigration, while protecting radical Islam.
Turkey is the snake in NATO. Actually most of the EU countries support unvetted immigration, while protecting radical Islam.
A new kind of Arab Spring?
They’re brass....and they’re big!!
I can’t get the link to work.
Often the best solution may not be the best. When Jimmy Carter screwed up and our embassy staff was seized in Iran, when Reagan was sworn in, they released them.
IF MY MEMORY is correct,(Hey, I’m old!) two planes landed. One to pick up the hostages, and ONE loaded with Turkish or Algerian troops who were to storm the area if the Iranians reneged.
I remember some commenters in the news mentioning this is why the USA never made an issue of the Armenian genocide years ago.
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