Posted on 05/26/2020 4:43:55 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
And thank you to Trump for not getting us sucked into that hell hole.
I must say, Russia and Turkey have the most inscrutable relations. Didn’t the Russians sell the Turks an AA system (same kind that brought down that airliner over the Ukraine) only two maybe three years ago? Now they’re on opposite sides in the Libyan civil war?
Turkey bought Russian S-400 missiles designed to down NATO planes. For the US, that’s a problem
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/europe/turkey-russia-missiles-nato-analysis-intl/index.html
What a mess. Ironically it was Turkey that shot down a Russian fighter in Syria.
Yes, the Turks also shot down a Russian Jet back in 2015, killing the pilot, and more recently have had several skirmishes along the Turkey/Syria border. Definitely a hot/cold relationship.
Amen!
Turkey supports Sunni jihadists (ISIS, al Queda, Muslim Brotherhood).
They (Erdogan) are positioning to be the main State supporter of fundamentalist Sunni takeovers in the region - a new Ottoman Empire.
In Libya, Turkey is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood (and the rest of the International jihadist witches brew of groups), including recruiting them directly from Syria, and running them in Libya.
The other side of the conflict (anti-jihadi) includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia. likely the USA (covertly), and Russia.
North Africa, like the Middle East, is a complicated series of relationships, where everybody is friends with some countries on some things and enemies with the same countries on some differing sets of things - and then they shift every once in while.
The munitions would have been ordnance for the fighter jets?
What makes you say that? Just curious.
You forgot Hillary. She was neck-deep in this mess too.
P.S. Never been there, I just read a lot.
There is one thing always to remember. Every Tsar at least since Peter the Great has wanted Constantinople, the Bosporus, and the Dardanelles. Erdogan is playing with Fire.
Time to bring in Qadaffi’s gorgeous palace guards! I see another Halle Barry movie...
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https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/morocco.algeria/economy
They have a ways to go but they are aware of what they must do. Education is the key.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made a concerted effort to educate its young. It started in the early 1980's. They know that their petroleum and natural gas reserves will run out one day and they ARE planning ahead for it.
Khalifa Haftar's yearlong Tripoli offensive against the Ankara-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) began to collapse. Believed to have been supplied to the Libyan strongman as early as last year by his backers [Iran's stooges] in the Gulf, the Russian system was meant to be used as a trump card against Turkey's combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) air interdiction operations... Analysis of open source data has estimated that up to 9 Pantsir units were lost in quick succession to UAV strikes during May, with footage of the strikes going viral on social media. To add insult to injury, a tenth Pantsir system was dramatically captured by GNA forces, and to great fanfare paraded through Tripoli as a war trophy. It is speculated that the captured Pantsir's final fate is to be picked apart for intelligence purposes.Libya: A Catastrophe for Russia's Pantsir S1 Air Defense System
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