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WW3 Is Around The Corner–Russia And Turkey Rev Up To WWIII With War Of Words [Picture}
The revolution willl be telivised and so will the next war. Russia and Turkey continue their wear of words, fueling regional and global tensions. Putin is flexing hi muscles, and Turkey is asserting is border integtiyu, refusings tso accrppt Rusian incursions into its airspace. As a NATO member, Turkey can call for assistsance from other memvbers, including the US.
Is the US about to be drawn into a confllict with Russia because of entangling alliances? Both Washington and Jeferson warned us agaist wrappping our blood and treasure up in other peoples’ conflicts:
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world”: it was George Washington’s Farewell Address to us. The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none.” source
The war of words between Russia and Turkey over the downing of a Russian warplane continued Friday, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning Moscow not to ‘play with fire.’
During a speech in the northeastern Turkish city of Bayburt, Erdogan accused Russia of ‘playing with fire’ by attacking groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ‘under the pretext’ of fighting the Islamic State group, and by ‘irresponsibly’ targeting trucks operating inside Syria for ‘commercial activities or humanitarian aid.’
Turkey’s state-run news agency and a Turkish relief
group reported Wednesday that Russian aircraft attacked a Turkish aid convoy inside Syria near the Turkish border, killing seven people and wounding 10.
Russian reaction
Russia reacted angrily after Turkish fighter jets shot down the warplane Tuesday, threatening ties between two countries on opposite sides in the Syrian war and raising fears of a wider international conflict.
;;In his comments Friday, Erdogan was apparently responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who a day earlier, in an apparent reference to Turkey, had said that those who conduct ‘criminal business’ with terrorists and use them ‘to achieve their political goals’ are ‘playing with fire.’
Erdogan also accused Russia of using the downing of the jet as an excuse to level ‘unacceptable accusations’ against Turkey. He called Russian charges that Turkey was buying oil from the Islamic State group ‘slander.’
