[bkopto]

Full title: Putin: if Turkey's Erdoğan doesn't stop supporting terrorists in Syria, I shall restore Constantinople (Istanbul) to Christendom

Now THAT would put the muzzies back on their heels. No more bowing and scraping to the head choppers.

[Bogie]

Yeah, as it should be.

[disndat]

Sounds like another Crusade is in the works.

[Jack Hammer]

Hmmm.... a war with Turkey could get complicated.

[aquila48]

I like the way Putin thinks. He sees this war for what it is.

[House Atreides]

NEITHER Europe or America should align with Islamist Turkey. Turkey should be removed from NATO.

[CurlyDave]

This actually sounds like a plan we should get behind.

The real flaw of course is Turkey’s NATO membership, but a US president with any stones at all could push Turkey out if it did not align itself with the interests of other NATO members.

[PGR88]

I shall restore Constantinople (Istanbul) to Christendom

I've decided. Putin is my write-in candidate in November.

[Jimmy Valentine]

This has been every Russian Tsars dream since Peter the Great.

[GOPJ]

"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.

Sounds OK to me... what are the problems? Turkey's a hellhole in progress - no reason to stand with the folks to shot Russian pilots as they were escaping their planes.

[mylife]

Meanwhile in America....

[Prospero]

Britain and Napoleon III did the West no favors for preventing the Russian Empire from liberating Constantinople in 1853, and if Churchill had been order to break through the Dardanelles just another day or so, the German-led Turks would have folded in March 1915, and Russia might not have been made weak and ripe for Lenin and an unnecessary collapse of the western front.

As it was, delay allowed the Germans time to make such a breakthrough impossible, brough Bulgaria into the war on the side of the Central Powers.

Our decadent State Department would work to subvert it, as would the EU and UN, but I hope Americans would have no stomach for preventing Russia from taking back Constantinople.

1453 was a disaster for the World and Christianity, just as the East was close to adopting the Council of Florence.

[McGruff]

Wow.

[RedWulf]

Go Putin Go!

[Rappini]

I still can’t get over Turkey not letting the 4th ID through their country so we could hit Hussein from the north which forced them to take a longer route.

[Iron Munro]

Vladimir Putin

Dong the jobs that homosexual, muslim, Nancy-Boy, US presidents won't do.

[Gritty]

Get the popcorn.

[ShivaFan]

I am starting to like Putin.

[ZULU]

Actually, i agree with him. The Turks are uncivilized.

[VeniVidiVici]

and we, the people of the Russian Federation and descendents of the Soviet Union

And there you go.

[SharpRightTurn]

BTTT