...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
despite growing concerns in NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
over the
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told news hounds that Moscow will speed up initial deliveries of S-400 missile batteries to Turkey at a presser with visiting Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu after lengthy talks in the Russian capital on March 13.
"The sooner Turkey receives [the S-400 missile system] the better. Works are continuing to this end," Cavusoglu said upon a question at the presser.
Turkey signed an agreement to buy the multibillion dollar S-400 missile system from Russia in late December, in a move which raised concern in the West because they cannot be integrated into NATO’s military architecture. Moscow is scheduled to begin supplying the missile systems in the first quarter of 2020.
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...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...and Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey....