Turkey, led by radical Islamist PM Erdogan, is determined to
drag the USA and NATO into the Syrian war in order to stop the slaughter of
ISIS. Furthermore, Erdogan wants to prevent the West from supporting the
Kurdish PKK rebels – who are currently working with the West and are the ONLY
reliable, successful fighting force on the ground in Syria.
It is common knowledge that Turkey has become an open door
for ISIS recruits. All they have to do is fly into Ankara, and a well-worn
underground provides all the nessecities to deliver fresh ISIS fighters to the
Syrian battlefield. Crossing the border from Turkey to Syria is unfettered to
ISIS recruits, but an iron fist awaits any PKK rebel recruits who want to join
their brothers in battle against ISIS.
It is also a well-known fact that ISIS gets a substantial
amount of their oil revenue from highly discounted oil sales to Turkey. The
West has know about the oil transports to Turkey via oil trucks for years
because it is hard to hide a thousand trucks a day crossing back and forth over
the Syrian/Turkish border.
So there you have it: Turkey is aiding the flow of ISIS fighters
AND funding their war right under the nose of the Obama administration - and you
might wonder why we have done nothing about it?
The USA has bases in Turkey and we need them in order to have the heavy
lift capability to fight ISIS in Syria and elsewhere. Unfortunately, there is a
lot of suspicion that the reason why the USA has only been using pin pricks
against ISIS personnel on the field - and not destroying the oil tucks is
because of pressure from Turkish PM Erdogan. We get to use the base for pinpricks
against ISIS and Turkey gets to use their air force to attack the Kurdish
fighters (our guys), and the USA gets to use their bases to “observe” what is
happening on the battlefield. Is anyone surprised that none of our allies trust
us anymore?
All of a sudden, Russia enters the Syrian war in support of
Syria. Russian fighter jets immediately blow up every ISIS/Turkish oil truck
convoy in sight. The world applauded the Russian strikes against the oil
convoys - and everyone wondered out loud
“how could the USA have allowed these transports”? Erdogan, as retaliation, decides
to shoot down a Russian fighter jet under the pretense that Russia invaded it’s
airspace and then requests NATO intervene militarily on it’s side against
Russia under article 4 of the NATO treaty.
Turkey has never been a reliable US ally. Turkey didn’t
allow the US military to transport war materials overland to Iraq during that
war – forcing us to fly everything, and now they are on the side of ISIS. It is
time to stop this charade and call a spade a spade: Turkey is a state sponsor
of ISIS – along with a number of other Muslim countries. You can’t win the war
against ISIS just on the battlefield. They have no shortage of fresh recruits.
But, if you choke off their funding that comes from their various state
sponsors, they will wither into insignificance.
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