Posted on 02/09/2016 1:15:39 PM PST by Trumpinator
They already have plenty of those in Russia, eh comrade?
The warm-water port thing... well there are a lot of NATO countries Russian ships would pass by to get from the Baltic republics to the North Sea.
Time for around of golf!
Please see my #18.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Plumber
Is a symbol of cheap labour coming from Central Europe as a result of the directive on services in the internal market during the EU Constitution referendum in France in 2005.
Not exactly a direct route to the Atlantic from Kalliningrad.
How about answering the question?
NATO, after Turkey shot down the Russian military plane, met and pretty much told Turkey they were on their own with Russia and they (NATO) were not going to get involved.
Kalliningrad is not as important as it used to be. I don’t know why your shocked by that. It is secure - NATO won’t dare take it away from Russia.
Just a yes or no will suffice.
Could you please provide a reference for that? And NATO doesn’t allow their members to defend their territory?
“Now they find that creating war can have terrible consequences.”
That qualifies as Breaking News!
Turkey's rising tension with Russia over Kurds puts Erdoğan in a corner Syrian Kurdish party opening a Moscow office marks new nadir in relations, and could lead to Turkish forces crossing border Escalating tension between Russia and Turkey will reach a new high when the Democratic Union party (PYD), the leading Kurdish political organisation in north-eastern Syria, which Ankara regards as a terrorist group, opens a representative office in Moscow on Wednesday at Vladimir Putin’s personal invitation. The development comes amid a dangerous tug-of-war between Russia and the US for power and influence in strategic areas along the Turkey-Syria border. Washington backs the Syrian Kurds in fighting Islamic State (Isis) jihadis. Moscow’s priority is to thwart western-backed efforts to topple Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime. Turkey is caught in the middle. Its biggest fear is that the PYD could establish autonomous control over large areas of northern Syria, linking up with independent Iraqi Kurdistan and encouraging Turkey’s alienated ethnic Kurdish population to follow suit. Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees remain stranded at Turkish border Read more “Our ambition is to rally support behind our Kurdish enclave in Syria through this office,†said Abdulsalam Ali, the Syrian Kurdish envoy to Moscow who is a member of the PYD. Wednesday’s opening ceremony in Moscow, which is expected to be attended by Russian foreign ministry officials, is seen by Turkish politicians and analysts as a deliberate provocation and part of a wider bid to expand Russian regional influence.
It was in the news I believe the week after the shoot down. Turkey was playing tough with Russia expecting to be backed up by NATO. NATO saw straight thru their ruse and said forget it. I think NATO now regrets allowing Turkey into the club and have not figured out how to get rid of them.
The President that used to be the worst in history gave that away.......
I certainly hope so.
NATO should have kicked Turkey out during the Iraq war when Turkey refused to let us fly over.
They got to say no.
We should have said ‘OUT!’
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