Posted on 02/23/2016 2:35:30 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Historically the Turks have been very vicious fighters the Ruski draftees will have big trouble with.
1. Russo-Turkish War 1568-70
2. Russo-Turkish War 1676-81
3. Russo-Turkish War 1686-1700
4. Russo-Turkish War 1710-11
5. Russo-Turkish War 1735-39
6. Russo-Turkish War 1768-74
7. Russo-Turkish War 1787-92
8. Russo-Turkish War 1806-12
9. Russo-Turkisy War 1828-29
10. Crimean War 1853-56
11. Russo-Turkish War 1877-78
12. World War I, Caucasus Campaign 1914-1918
Hmm...they're due.
The Constantinople diet: Twice roasted minced Turkey flavored with Benedictine brandy and bacon bits. Dine until entirely consumed.
Turkey fired the first shot, so that should negate any obligations on our part, plus I don't think most people would support any new war especially aiding a muslim country.
There will be no political transition.
What's Kerry's Plan B...? And, what does that military escalation look like?
As we know, this is a good reason to never give Obama an AUMF in anything associated, even obliquely, with Syria.
Most of us are not thinking conquer.
We are thinking Level.
The difference between how the 1990 to 1991 war was fought, and how the war in Afghanistan was fought.
The Russians don’t want to be in Turkey, so it is foolish to think they would try to leave anything alive or unburned.
Absolutely they have enough men and munitions to fight this that way, and there isn’t squat the mohammedans can do about it but beg and grovel to the west for help.
If things go hot, and NATO does not intervene, I think that Turkey might try to appropriate some (IIRC) B-61 nuclear bombs (old fashioned gravity type) that we have at Incirlik...
Yep. Only the show will tell, as they say.
But, Russia has been getting by on nothing more than creative record keeping and the heavily indoctrinated and irrational fear instilled into our own cold war policy wanker/wonks.
Russia has until the last boomer dies, then it’s all over but the crying.
The burden of Damascus.
Well Turkey is where you can buy a Russian girl for a few bucks. Maybe they should waste them.
Not really. Turkey is the aggressor here. NATO need not step in if Turkey is reckless and acting as the bully.
Nukes will fly.
Saudi Arabia and China have troops over there, too. Then there is Iran.
John Kerry has a “Plan B” for dealing with Syria. LOL! Empty threat. Obama and Kerry don’t have the balls to bomb Syria’s military and start a war with Russia.
I rather doubt Russia would actually conquer Turkey.
At the worst, they would do serious damage to the infrastructure and military and perhaps carve off the Kurdish part of Turkey to join up with the Iraqi & Syrian Kurdish areas to form a unified Kurdistan.
That would really stick in Turkey’s craw. 40 million Kurds living under one flag.
Looking forward to “going back to Constantinople.”
I am thinking about the plane thing. Su-24 is an agile plane. It could have turned and not flown into Turkey. Especially when Turkey had complained many times about Russian planes flying over their borders.
I doubt it flew into Turkey just to save fuel or out of some other necessity. Russia is trying to make a new normal out of their warplanes flying into other countries and expects no response. They were pushing Turkey and unexpectedly Turkey pushed back.
How about redecorating some mosques and calling them churches. Turnabout is fair play.
Doubt anyone would give Kurds their own country, but I would shed no tears if the Russians did.
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