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2018-08-20 The Grand Turk

Former German FM: Turkey Might Acquire Nuclear Weapons To Threaten The West

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-08-20 01:42|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Threatening us with nuclear weapons. Wow, what a friend!

Oh wait he's only threatening Europeans. That's OK, they've repeatedly assured us they don't want and don't need American help. Ami go home, remember?

If only Europe wouldn't have been ripping us off on trade and funded their fair share of NATO...none of this would happen. But Europeans decided it had to be this way. So be it.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-08-20 05:59|| 2018-08-20 05:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Lessee. Who would the likely vendor be?

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-08-20 08:34|| 2018-08-20 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Wiki: whilst the 2011 census states that 2.7 million German residents have at least one parent from Turkey, this may not be a true representation of the total ethnic Turkish population. In 1997 the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had already stated that there were 3 million Turks living in Germany.

Posted by Hupusing Claitch6798 2018-08-20 08:52|| 2018-08-20 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Nuclear weapons are expensive, I suspect, and Turkey has a bit of a debt and income problem. How does Herr Erdogan (given it’s a German publication) intend to square that circle?

Thank you for reading and translating the German press for us, Elmerert Hupens2660.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-08-20 09:28|| 2018-08-20 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I doubt China wants Turkish nukes that Turk terminus of one of the Silkroads.

Posted by 3dc 2018-08-20 09:57|| 2018-08-20 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 After all nuke Pakistan and nuke NKor effectively end 2 silk roads.

Posted by 3dc 2018-08-20 09:58|| 2018-08-20 09:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Mussolini was a smarter man than Erdogan, brilliant on some accounts, and look where his Imperial Ambitions for Italy wound up. This will not end well...

Posted by magpie 2018-08-20 10:00|| 2018-08-20 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Nuclear weapons are expensive, I suspect, and Turkey has a bit of a debt and income problem.

Turkey wants to extort money which could in turn finance future Turkish nuclear weapons.

Specifically, Erdogan wants to scare Germany and Europe into paying danegeld right now, which would undermine present symbolical US sanctions and the threat of possibly serious US sanctions.

This is an irrational, vile and vicious move which also betrays the Turkish government's panic.

Which is why the Turks used this deniable channel.

I don't really doubt that this is an authentic message from the Turkish government. Gabriel would not idly talk about a nominal ally threatening Europe with nuclear annihilation.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-08-20 10:51|| 2018-08-20 10:51|| Front Page Top

#9 America just might soon be backing a United Kurdistan - taking territory from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. The Kurds are the best people in the region - 'tough as woodpecker lips, Islamic but secular, smart, dependable - even their (often gorgeous) women fight as infantry. Aside from the Israelis, the Kurds could be the strongest player in the region. And - if Turkey nukes up, we give the Kurds nukes (or at least a "nuclear umbrella". Heh, heh. Maybe it is time to reconquer Constantinople???

Posted by Lone Ranger 2018-08-20 11:29|| 2018-08-20 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Just be sure to activate cratering and demolition charges in all US built bases when we finally leave the ~~Jerks~~ Turks. Incirlik should definitely be missing some hangars, ammunition and POL facitlites, and the runways and taxiways should have multiple large and deep craters.

Posted by Boss Spoper5850 2018-08-20 12:41|| 2018-08-20 12:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Specifically, Erdogan wants to scare Germany and Europe into paying danegeld right now,

They've been paying Turkey millions for several years in order to keep the Muslim migrants from continuing into Europe, a flow Turkey has stopped or released ever since as the mood siezes them.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-08-20 21:12|| 2018-08-20 21:12|| Front Page Top

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