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| The Grand Turk | ||
| Putin: Turkey 'will regret' downing Russian bomber in Syria | ||
| 2015-12-04 | ||
| Russian President Vladimir Putin has castigated Turkey's leaders, warning that they will regret shooting down a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syria. In a state of the nation speech, broadcast live on Russian television, he said that "if anyone thinks Russia's reaction will be limited to trade sanctions, they are deeply mistaken". "We'll remind them again what they did - they will regret it." Russia's fight against "terrorists" came top in his speech to parliament. At the start he praised the widows of the two Russian servicemen killed in the Su-24 incident in Syria. The widows were sitting in the Kremlin audience for his speech. There was also a minute's silence for Russian victims of terrorism, including the 224 who died when a bomb blew up a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai desert on 31 October. In his speech Mr Putin again accused the Turkish government of sheltering and covertly supporting IS militants. Turkey insists that its F-16 fighters shot down the Su-24 because the bomber had trespassed into its airspace. Mr Putin scorned them, saying "probably Allah alone knows why they did it. "And evidently Allah decided to punish the ruling clique in Turkey, by depriving it of any reason or logic."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 TURKEY'S = OTTOMAN'S "SULTAN", RUSSIA'S "TSAR", BUT WHOM REMEMBERS IRAN'S "SHAH"-NOW-SUPREME-AYATOLLAH??? Lest we fergit, WE'RE-SUPPOSED-TO-BE-ISLAM'S FIRST-NUCLEAR-SUPERPOWER/GREATPOWER-NOT-SHIA-IRAN PAKISTAN = "NEO-OTTOMAN" TURKEY = DESIRES TO OUTWARDLY EXPAND + HAVE ITS OWN SOLE "SPHERE OF INFLUENCE" LIKE "US-STYLE", "US-PAR", OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, ETC. Two Muslim or Islamic "Great Power" or "Superpower" wannabes all but isolated = geographically blocked or surrounded by their many Muslim + Non-Muslim neighbors. * FYI YAHOO NEWS, BREAKINGNEWS > THAILAND WARNED BY MOSCOW THAT ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS "ENTERED" THE KINGDOM WID GOAL TO ATTACK RUSSIAN TOURISTS. And Russian strategic interests. Iff true, looks like the ISIS/ISIL + aligned hard Boyz may intend to attack-n-destabilize or overwhelm INDIA'S + CHINA'S SMALLER. MORE SECURITY-VULNERABLE NEIGHBORS BEFORE ATTACKING THE BIG CHEEZES HEAD-ON??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-12-04 22:46 |
| #2 An alliance between Russians & Kemalists (Turkish Nationalists)---mind boggles. See "Molotov-Ribbontrop pact", then later United Nations pact between USSR and western powers for useful if unlikely precedents. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2015-12-04 16:38 |
| #1 Hint hint, longstanding and reliable friends in Turkey An alliance between Russians & Kemalists (Turkish Nationalists)---mind boggles. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-12-04 14:23 |