by Robert Gore
United States ally and NATO member Turkey, perhaps with the blessing of the US, shot down a Russia military jet for—if Turkey is to be believed—violating its airspace for 17 seconds. The Wall Street Journal, a valuable government ally in its war on the truth, mocked Putin for his “stab in the back” rhetoric against Turkey and his restrained military and diplomatic response, calling him a “paper tiger.”
Outsmarting the government and The Wall Street Journal isn’t hard these days. Putin saved his fire for the most important war, that US war on truth. He called out the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey for aiding ISIS. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan said he would resign if anyone could produce conclusive evidence that Turkey was aiding ISIS. Russia responded with maps showing the routes used to smuggle ISIS oil to Turkey, and pictures and videos of lines of tanker trucks moving across northern Iraq, eastern Syria, and the Turkish border, some just before they were hit by Russian bombs (LINK). There have been a number of stories linking Erdoğan’s sons and son-in-law to ISIS smuggling, and Iran has also offered to show what it terms “irrefutable evidence” of Turkey’s role. There has been no resignation announcement from Erdoğan.
