So this is escalating. SAA is rolling through Idlib and totally bypassing Turkish observation points. They are meaningless now. They took Maraat al Numaan last week which means nothing here, but was huge. The Turks are sending in a lot of armor now. Get ready for the 4th incursion of the Turkish army into Syria to carve out something in Idlib to keep an area where the refugees can go.
I bring this up because if Turkey starts fighting Syria it can escalate fast.
If hostilities do escalate, Turkey will be able to handle Syria all by itself. I do agree that because they are a part of NATO, if they scream bloody murder and demand assistance, that could become an issue.
Do you think Iran or Russia would involve themselves in a conflict in Syria? Especially if NATO is participating along the margins? I don’t think Iran and Russia are going to risk becoming entangled with NATO, or to damage their relationship with Turkey.
Trump has sobered up enough since election day to realize we cannot simply disengage militarily from the ME.
It doesn’t matter how much we wish the world was different but as long as a third of the world’s petroleum flows through the Str of Hormuz every day we have to remain engaged and keep them open.
To do otherwise guarantees all of the world’s leading industrial economies collapse within weeks of Iran getting full control.
Strategically having excess petroleum production at home protects us in that we will always have an adequate supply should we go to war but that doesn’t protect us from the economic fallout of the other leading industrial countries collapsing.
No. Fake news is that photo claiming that personi s Baghdadi and claiming Baghdadi was trained by the Israelis(scary Jews). You get that picture from Stormfront?
The guy behind Biden’s right shoulder is absolutely not Baghdadi and AB was never trained by the Israelis.
That they’d make such a claim to begin with even if there was an honest error in ID indicate it probably came from some Neo Nazi/ White Supremacist group.
