Moon of Alabama: Context Of Yesterday's Turkish Attack Against The Russian Jet

[Kurt Buff]

Afghanistan and Russo-Japanese wars.

I'd say they started and lost both of them.

Kurt

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
> On 11/25/15, Razer <Rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:
> ...
>>This article is copiously linked at Moon of Alabama
>>http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/11/the-context-of-yesterdays-turkish-attack-against-the-russian-jet.html
>
> [numerous foreign airspace violations by Turkey elided]
>
> Out of interest, is there a word for "hypocrite" in the Turk's native language?
>
>
>> The attack on the Russian plane was preconceived on November 22 when a
>> security summit was held with the Turkish government under Prime
>> Minister Davutoğlu and the Turkish Armed Forces. Davutoğlu personally
>> gave the order to shoot down Russian planes. This, Turkey says, was
>> necessary to stop Russian bombing of "Turkmen" in north Syria's Latakia
>> near the Turkish border.
>
> Well that plan didn't quite come together - with Russia's navy now on
> a hair trigger "shoot to kill any air based threat" order (and Russia
> closing their military comm lines with Turkey), Turkey had no option
> but to ground their F-16 fleet.
>
> There's a saying widely used in Russia - Russia never starts a war,
> but she always ends them.
>
> The terrorists, whether you call them moderate or otherwise, have
> spread from the middle east (including Syria) to France, Russia and
> other countries. Russia will end this war in Syria, with or without
> support from "the West" - in defence of the sovereignty of Syria (the
> overthrow of which by Western powers as we now know was planned and
> attempted since decades ago), in defence of the Christians and other
> minorities of Syria, and in defence of Russia's interests such as the
> defence of a long time ally, as dignity and pride demands.
>
> France's Napoleon, the Ottoman Empire, WWII Germany and more - when
> you begin war against Russia, you sign your own "going to lose"
> warrant. So Rule #1 of war is, make agreement with Russia prior to
> starting war, no matter who else you are going to war with.
>
> Rule #2 of war - refer to Rule #1.
>
> Quite simple really.
>
> Regards,
> Zenaan
>