I wonder how useful it would be for the general staff to review what transpired with Rommel and then Montgomery.
As long as the US stays out of it, I can’t see any downside to Muslims killing Muslims.
Is Turkey really this crazy? Putin has them surrounded. He owns the Crimea. He has a strong presence in Syria. He has deep connections with the Orthodox countries the Balkans who hate Turkey. He has the Turks dependent on Russian oil with that new underwater pipeline. Putin can cut the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline anytime he wants. He can now easily unite the Bulagarians, Serbs, Greeks, Armenians and Iran (Egypt?) into a coalition that would love nothing more than to dismember Turkey. And not only that, Erdogan is going out of his way to alienate the USA, the EU and all of NATO so he’d do whatever he’s planning on his own. What’s the game plan here? Unite with Hamas and conquer the world? It makes no sense to me. This is called Hubris pure and simple.
Update: The Egyptian Legislature approved the use of Military Force - unanimously on Monday (20 July 20).
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3866744/posts?page=8#8
The Egyptian President can now order it any time