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2020-02-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Turkey asks NATO to provide air support for the operation in Idlib

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Posted by Fred 2020-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Fortunately Europeans are against helping NATO allies. Moreover they lack the capability as their militaries are a joke.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-20 00:25|| 2020-02-20 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Who is "Fuat"?

Is that an acronym - F.off and ... Try? Tweet?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-20 00:27|| 2020-02-20 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 oops, F-U-A-T might be F-U, Arrogant Turkmen!

Posted by Lex 2020-02-20 00:29|| 2020-02-20 00:29|| Front Page Top

#4 NATO air support for an invasion of Syria? That's rich.

Posted by Beau 2020-02-20 02:27|| 2020-02-20 02:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee, Yip-yip, I'll bet those F-35s you won't be getting would have come in handy.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-02-20 06:06|| 2020-02-20 06:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Drag an S-400 with you, Yippy?

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-20 06:31|| 2020-02-20 06:31|| Front Page Top

#7 If they give us their troops exact coordinates, we can hit them with cruise missiles.

Wait....they want us to bomb someone else? No
thanks.

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-02-20 07:03|| 2020-02-20 07:03|| Front Page Top

#8 S-400 in the direct fire role. Might be fun to watch.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-02-20 07:53|| 2020-02-20 07:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Not only no, but HELL no. In your dreams Zippy.

Posted by AlanC 2020-02-20 07:56|| 2020-02-20 07:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Three years too late. Soetoro would have responded in the affirmative. Close down Incirlik Air Base and get out now before Erdoğan surrounds it and holds everyone for ransom.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-20 08:04|| 2020-02-20 08:04|| Front Page Top

#11 The great Ottoman Empire hopes collapse again.

Fuck off Turkey, and take your Islamist empire hopes with ya.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-20 09:23|| 2020-02-20 09:23|| Front Page Top

#12 McCain's moderates MB, AQ, ISIS type islamists, and neo-Ottomans still need our Air Force. We should support them in Libya too, NATO allies GNA. Life is rich with irony. Call it Orwellian. We are at war with radical islam except when they are useful proxies in Oceania's War with EastAsia. Tomorrow it is known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.

Posted by mossomo 2020-02-20 09:24|| 2020-02-20 09:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Hell I'd be giving the Russians coordinates. But hey, go ask NATO, I understand Belgium shot down a couple planes last year.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-20 11:09|| 2020-02-20 11:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Why not just sell turkey biological shells with weaponized coronavirus and blame china! HAahahhahahahahaha!

Posted by Vortigern Mussolini8602 2020-02-20 12:06|| 2020-02-20 12:06|| Front Page Top

#15
"NATO's out at the moment, but we have a FETÖ here. Would you like to talk to them?"

Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-20 12:10|| 2020-02-20 12:10|| Front Page Top

#16 Could always send in the 4th ID.

Ohhnooo!

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-20 15:20|| 2020-02-20 15:20|| Front Page Top

#17 /\ What goes around.....

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-20 15:21|| 2020-02-20 15:21|| Front Page Top

#18 Asking in particular for Patriot Batteries and Americans to operate them. FUCK NO

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-20 17:52|| 2020-02-20 17:52|| Front Page Top

#19 they didn't say which side we should support

if it was the Kurds we might consider it

Posted by lord garth 2020-02-20 18:37|| 2020-02-20 18:37|| Front Page Top

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