17-07-2016, 08:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 17-07-2016, 09:05 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Guyatt Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:Edmonds on Twitter
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RT is reporting this morning that Erdogan has grounded all US aircraft flying out of Incirlik and also reports that power has been shut off from the base too. Their report says that if Gulen was behind or involved in the coup, then the US must have green-lighted it.
Earlier in the week, news clips of Erdogan being snubbed by all the other delegate as the recent NATO meeting suggested to me that the US no longer favoured him. He really did look a lonely figure there. His formal letter to Putin apologising for the shoot down of the Russian aircraft would also cause US to cringe.
Interesting situation: by treaty each NATO member must come to the military aide of any other under attack...but what if one NATO member openly or secretly attacks [or aides in an attack of] another?! This is not going to end soon...nor I think very neatly. This is Deep Political intrigue at its best [worst]. Expect the supplies of Turkish taffy to dry up and the spot market on it hit the roof! The US will NOT put up with anyone messing around with one of their bases.......not for a minute! Erdogan is playing with fire. If the US has secretly decided to remove him, he may not exit stage right just yet...but would sooner rather than later under some secret action and/or dirty trick. He's a bastard, but the US had no right to be meddling in other countries business - though that is our history...if not our credo.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass