Rationale for the elimination of entangling alliances in Europe, bolstered with eloquent logic from the script of Blackadder:
What if a Russian jet violates Turkish airspace for a few seconds again? What if Turkey shoots that one down too? What if Russia uses its increased defenses to retaliate? What if Turkey retaliates in turn? What if NATO makes good on its commitment to support Turkey such a conflict? What if all-out war breaks out between the West and Russia? Such a war could escalate to the use of nuclear weapons.
How secure does that make you feel? How do you feel about giving up your life, your children, your hometown, etc, for the absolute sanctity of Turkish airspace? Or for the sake of Turkish assets fighting alongside Syrian Al Qaeda to overthrow a secular head of state on the other side of the world? Or for the sake of protecting the flow of ISIS oil into Turkey and Turkish arms to ISIS?
Excerpt from “Turkey, Russia, & the Fallacy of ‘Collective Security’”
November 30, 2015 Dan Sanchez
Read the whole essay before you dismiss these hypotheses.
With skin this thin the Torcs shouldn’t be in the decision making cycle let alone in the same room:
In 2007, Turkish journalist Poyraz was arrested and eventually sentenced to 29 years for calling Erdogan a “crypto- jew”.
Didn’t hear about this in the PM msm news:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-should-be-applauded-our-government-is-unwilling-to-confront-the-terrorist-offensive-us-congressman-dana-rohrabacher/5493086