Plantagenet wrote:evilgenius wrote: The US may not, by nature of its immigrant past and greater size, as well as other things, have the somewhat homogeneous nature that Turkey has
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Turkey does not have anything like a "homogeneous" nature.
You must have missed the fact that Turkey did ethnic cleansing of its Greek minority in the 19th and early 20th centuries, committed genocide against its Armenia minority in the early 20th century and has been fighting a war against its Kurdish minority for decades now.
And now, since 2016, its been closing newspapers and purging universities, courts, the army etc. of anyone suspected of not fully backing Erdogan. Just going to a political meeting or signing a petition gets you fired from the universities---there was a story about it on the PBS new hour just last night.
Cheers!
Plantagenet wrote:Russian has responded to the US attack on the Syrian jet by saying that they will shoot down anything that wanders into Syrian airspace.
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Apparently in practice, according to the new report, that doesn't mean they will shoot down US jets---but only that will "lock on" to US jets with their radar systems.
Nonetheless, we move another step closer to a US-Russia military provocation in Syria.
dissident wrote:The US somehow "missed" the massive oil convoys to Turkey from eastern Syria that were a major source of the ISIS money supply. When pressed with this obvious coddling of ISIS, US mouthpieces claimed that burning oil would pollute the environment.
Cog wrote:US shoots down another Iranian drone.
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