Turkish President Erdogan has begun a war on Russia backed by the US, including a huge personal cash payoff and the release of Turkey’s first 5 F 35 aircraft. Acting as a Trump-Netanyahu proxy, despite the fact that superficially Erdogan has opposed the apartheid “peace plan” Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia and pushing on the Palestinian people, Erdogan is coming back in line with his longtime policy as supporter of terrorism.
If Russia fails to act strongly, Russian hopes for the Middle East will quickly dissolve.
Further US threats to crash Turkey’s currency have been used to bring Erdogan back into the fold as a full time supporter of ISIS and al Qaeda, both operations of western intelligence agencies.
Additionally, Turkey is aiding in the resurgence of ISIS inside Iraq as well.
Trump has promised Erdogan a personal cut from Syrian oil now being delivered through Turkey. Russia and the US have nearly come to blows of late when US troops have blocked Russian peacekeepers from Northern Syria which threatened deliveries of stolen oil to Erdogan’s Erbil based operating company, both trucking and oil sales, nominally owned by his son and Israeli investors.
This morning, Turkey sent a 200 vehicle column into Syria’s Idlib province, hoping to hold off Russian and Syrian forces who have been retaking this region from the coalition of al Qaeda terrorists and Turkish paid mercenaries who have enslaved the local population for years and have looted everything that could be stolen.
Coordinated with al Qaeda, forces attacked a combined Russian-Syrian unit in West Aleppo that has been securing the region from terrorist forces that have been shelling civilians in Aleppo continually for many months now.
The combined artillery and mortar attack on the Russian-Syrian column was by Turkish Army units and Turkish military dressed as militia, destroying several vehicles and killing 4 Russians and 30 Syrian Arab Army soldiers.
It is clear that Erdogan is daring Russia to confront him.
#1: Pinguinite To: Ada (#0)
Pinguinite posted on 2020-02-02 15:19:07 Reply Private Reply
#2: Lod To: Ada (#0)
Always a smart plan for the new year.
Lod posted on 2020-02-02 16:16:02 Reply Private Reply
#3: BTP Holdings To: Pinguinite (#1)
Turks shot down a Russian fighter jet. After that the Russians armed their planes with air-to-air missiles. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-02 16:25:52 Reply Private Reply
#4: FormerLurker To: BTP Holdings (#3)
Bro, Russian fighter jets ALWAYS carry air to air missiles on combat missions.
The jet that got shot down wasn't a fighter jet, it was an attack jet that isn't equipped to attack air targets, instead it is designed to solely attack ground targets.
For example the US A-10 (the A stands for attack) can only attack ground targets as well.
Some jets, such as the F/A-18, are dual purpose in that they can attack both air and ground targets.
But the Russian jet that got shot down, a SU-24 (Edit: had mistakenly said SU-25 originally), was single use and was designed back in the days of the Soviet Union. Like the A-10 it is heavily armored and is meant to withstand ground fire. It can not maneuver, fly as fast, or fly as high as a fighter.
FormerLurker posted on 2020-02-02 16:41:22 Reply Private Reply
#5: FormerLurker To: Ada (#0)
FormerLurker posted on 2020-02-02 16:44:03 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: FormerLurker (#4)
I guess you have info that I have not seen. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-02 16:47:19 Reply Private Reply
#7: FormerLurker To: BTP Holdings (#6)
Just need to look up Turkey shoots down Russian jet..
2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown
And yeah I was mistaken about the model, but a SU-24 is still an attack jet, not a fighter.
FormerLurker posted on 2020-02-02 17:00:03 Reply Private Reply
#8: Ada To: FormerLurker (#5)
Duff has never been accused of being credible. But the Jerusalem Post confirms Turkish invasion with the Israeli side of the story
Ada posted on 2020-02-02 18:45:59 Reply Private Reply
#9: Ada To: Pinguinite (#1)
Ada posted on 2020-02-02 19:12:17 Reply Private Reply