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2010-04-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

How Turkey's new axis with Russia affects US interests

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Posted by ryuge 2010-04-24 02:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 "cannot bring themselves to retire or revise. And by continuing to treat post-Cold War Russia as though it was still the Soviet Union, the US and UK have to a large degree caused Moscow to act in manners contrary to Western interests."

This sounds typical lefty. The world reacts to the West and not the reverse. Perhaps the Russians were acting very imperialist so the US and Britain have treated them accordingly.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-04-24 10:52|| 2010-04-24 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 For Turkey's government to make overtures to Russia would be as dangerous, from the point of view of their military, as offering nuke tech to Iran. The Turkish military looks at the Russians if they were giant rabid wolverines, and with considerable justification.

I might add that this is the rationale the Turks used to massacre the Christian Armenians, then part of the Ottoman Empire, who had been making overtures to Russia to invade and capture Armenia.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-24 12:00|| 2010-04-24 12:00|| Front Page Top

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