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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 8, 2019 17:08:31 GMT 10
TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that the U.S. intends to prevent any unilateral invasion by Turkey into northern Syria, saying any such move by the Turks would be unacceptable. www.apnews.com/d8444f9764ce4be6bdfa68aa3c9051f7 |
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Post by spinifex on Aug 8, 2019 19:09:23 GMT 10
Turkey and Russia are pretty close these days. I wonder if Putin would send Russian advisors and hardware into the Jaws of a US intervention? And if so ... how that would turn out for all involved.
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Post by Tim Horton on Aug 14, 2019 7:40:14 GMT 10
A note of history, maybe....
Up until WW1 Turkey owned, ruled, governed a lot of that area. When the war was over, League of Nations and likely others divided that area up by some formula of the day which only served to eventually destabilize the area into what is there today. Where the area had been relatively quiet and peaceful as far as the balance of the world was concerned at the time at least, until the divisions.
So is there some sense in if some areas there were back in Turkeys control there would be more stability than there seems today ?? Maybe not stable internally to the area, but safer for the rest of the world ??
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Post by spinifex on Aug 15, 2019 15:41:45 GMT 10
Gallipoli II. Lest we have forgotten.
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