Wombat + 1,028 AV March 11, 2020 On 3/10/2020 at 9:06 AM, Tomasz said: Russia wants to finally pull out the second NATO army Turkey from this alliance. So Russia will not murder Turks with thousands, generally would prefer to have the best relations with them because Turkey is now only formally in NATO and its Russia's great success. It so happens that Russia and Turkey are eternal enemies and have fought 17 wars with each other. Of these wars Russia won 16 lost only Crimean but there de facto lost to France and Great Britain not Turkey. She took the entire Balkans Romania, Bulgaria over Turkey helped Greece militarly regain independence. In addition, the entire Caucasus, including Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. It would take also Istanbul by force but Great Britain would never let it. So, Turks historically, although they don't like Russians, they have some huge respect for them. It was very silly of the Turks to buy S-400 SAM system from Russia. Cost them the JSF. Will cost them much more than that over longer term. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douglas Buckland + 6,308 March 11, 2020 20 minutes ago, Wombat said: It was very silly of the Turks to buy S-400 SAM system from Russia. Cost them the JSF. Will cost them much more than that over longer term. Absolutely correct! They should be dismissed from NATO. If the EU still wants the, that’s up to them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites