Article

2015-08-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Putin to Turkey: Tell your dictator he can go to Hell with his ISIS terrorist

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Penguin 2015-08-04 00:54|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Good for Putin?

Posted by 3dc 2015-08-04 04:00|| 2015-08-04 04:00|| Front Page Top

#2 or popcorn time?

Posted by 3dc 2015-08-04 04:00|| 2015-08-04 04:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The Turks better STFU and behave, they don't want those black suited lumpy guys running around in the night.

Me thinks Vlad senses he is going to have to be the adult supervision in the ME because youknowwho is going to provide it in any meaningful sense.

This is both a good for Putin and pass the popcorn, you poke the bear and things get ugly in a hurry...and Putin is a master of ugly.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-08-04 04:18|| 2015-08-04 04:18|| Front Page Top

#4 The Russian president purportedly went into a long diatribe criticizing the Turkish foreign policy and its malevolent role in Syria, Iraq and Yemen by supporting Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terrorists, reported the Moscow Times, which escalated the conversation with the Turkish ambassador to a fierce polemic.

Another missed diplomatic opportunity for our feckless 'wrong side O'history' tyrants in Washington.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-04 04:21|| 2015-08-04 04:21|| Front Page Top

#5 What Turkey has learned from the Paks is that you can play loose with the terrorists and not have to pay the price for doing so. Putie has his hands full with the Ukraine and just trying to jump start his Black Sea Fleet. A bit too early to back anything with real force.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-04 07:59|| 2015-08-04 07:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The Soviet Union had an excellent understanding of the Muslim Brotherhood activity, and the role Erbakan and Erdogan, both Turkish brothers, played in the growth of radicalism in the "Stans", and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The successor to the KGB must have a dossier an inch thick on Erdogan, and while Obama kisses his ass, Putin never will.

Posted by Clomp Omagum5939 2015-08-04 10:30|| 2015-08-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Good for Putin?

All sides in the Syrian conflict are at least associated with terror sponsoring, totalitarian theocratic states.

Putin is siding with Iran/Hezbolla/Assad-Syria which is posing a far more formidable threat to Western civilization than ISIS, courtesy of the Western powers' surrender to Iran.

There are no good guys in this. If ISIS gives Hezbollah a taste of their own medicine or vice versa there's no reason for civilized people to be outraged.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-08-04 12:13|| 2015-08-04 12:13|| Front Page Top

#8 "tell your dictator president he can go to hell" -- ? taking lessons from Donald Trump

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-08-04 16:50|| 2015-08-04 16:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Pragmatically, wid Turkey's rival IRAN already on the shores of the Med + Turkey via its Syria + Lebanese allies, SHORT OF WAR AGZ IRAN THE ONLY WAY TURKEY HAS TO "BREAK OUT" OF ITS CONTAINMENT + ACHIEVE ITS AMBITION OF "PAN-TURKIC UNION" IS TO DESTABILIZE + GO AGZ ANY + ALL ITS SURROUNDING NON-IRANIAN NEIGHBORS, INCLUD BUT NOT LIMITED TO RUSSIA.

Putin = Russia is rightly fearing BOTH the ISIS + the New Ottoman.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-08-04 21:47|| 2015-08-04 21:47|| Front Page Top

23:55 Sock Puppet of Doom
22:37 KBK
22:03 Richard Aubrey
22:03 Richard Aubrey
21:55 JosephMendiola
21:55 Jeremiah Spash6318
21:47 JosephMendiola
21:39 JosephMendiola
21:39 Jeremiah Spash6318
21:32 JosephMendiola
21:22 JosephMendiola
20:56 Frank G on the road
20:50 Procopius2k
19:52 DarthVader
19:37 Bill Clinton
19:26 JHH
19:22 trailing wife
19:17 Fred
19:16 charger
19:11 trailing wife
18:42 swksvolFF
18:36 Deacon Blues
18:35 OldSpook
18:34 Deacon Blues