tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post8218848053024842995..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Odds and Ends AP*bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-45673489074867740162015-11-27T19:30:18.068-08:002015-11-27T19:30:18.068-08:00Without suggesting it is directed or not, the rela...Without suggesting it is directed or not, the relationship of fans to their favorite sports teams helps to condition many to feel the same toward the state.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-89275491853037255942015-11-27T06:11:27.756-08:002015-11-27T06:11:27.756-08:00On the "we" thing, actually "we&quo...On the "we" thing, actually "we" do it fairly often. I am a graduate of a university with a pretty good football team (at least, right now). I have never remotely played organized football, but when Monday morning comes, I join my buddies in talking about how the team did. And I admit it. "We" comes out of my mouth at times when describing the exploits of the team. The playing field may be fairly innocuous. Statecraft is another thing, entirely.kierkegaard71https://www.blogger.com/profile/06790739808752570520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-64365032359729418202015-11-26T05:13:35.982-08:002015-11-26T05:13:35.982-08:00Erdogan is a gangster and a terrorist. Nothing els...Erdogan is a gangster and a terrorist. Nothing else need be said about him.<br /><br />This is a huge error for Turkey, if Russia wants to up the ante in a way that Turkey can't do anything about. All Russia need do is reverse what Turkey has been doing in Syria, only far more effectively. What is that? Set up a safe zone for anti-Turkish rebels (usually Kurds) on the border of Syria-Turkey, where Turkey has until now been succoring Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and other terrorist groups.<br /><br />What then happens is that Kurds can engage in cross border attacks and fall back under the protection of Russian anti-aircraft missiles. Exactly how Syria was destabilized from Turkey.<br /><br />Russia should also pursue legal processes against Turkish people benefiting from the illegal Islamic State oil trade, including family members of the Turkish president. Likely they will never be brought to justice but it will be very embarrassing and it is possible that they won't be able to leave Turkey for fear of arrest.Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-68596108972522584202015-11-25T21:27:05.357-08:002015-11-25T21:27:05.357-08:00Just as Paris spun the wheel, just so, the shoot d...Just as Paris spun the wheel, just so, the shoot down gave an even more ominous spin to it, Putin used the words, "stab in the back" for Erdogan,<br /><br />We, the little-guys, can have no idea what is really going on. Erdogan has made an irreversible decision. They say it will cost him billions in tourism and industry and pipelines.<br /><br />Who can afford to bribe Erdogan with even more money and compensation? --- Not very long ago, before the major players changed the spin, I read to a very informed source (From the Saker Blog I think) describing how the Head Office, and main supply line (quoting routes, facts and figures) of ISIS was Turkey. They slowly morphed that into "other " logistics as the spotlight shone on Turkey.<br /><br />NATO does not have enough collective cohesion or brain power to have told Turkey to attack. The US has the most to lose if Russia and France win. A superficial observation would suggest that if Russia was hurting Turkey's enemy, a few disputed meters over a border would not matter. Clearly ISIS is somehow married to Turkey/NATO/US. <br /><br />It is possible that the Turkish bigger fear is the Kurds and Russia had to be sacrificed). It is conceivable that the Kurd could actually destroy the Turkish State over time and so it was a calculated risk.<br /><br />Turkey's disaster is just beginning. --- They are in the middle of the New Silk Road and both China and Russia will make sure they can pass down that road, irrespective of what ISIS, or the Kurds do. ISIS is strictly a bogey man for America and its clones, it is not a Chinese or Russian issue, other than ISIS is threatening Tartus and the Airbases. Russia is Muslim enough to live with ISIS had they played in the same game. Notice it is only after 5 years that Russia has had to step in.<br /><br />I see ISIS trying to redraw the old 1921 Mesopotamia lines and to create a Sunni Caliphate after the US proposed to them and then chased them out of Iraq<br /><br />Personally I think this downing of the Su24 will help Russia. Their "New Military" is only 9 years old and has not been tested. If the Su31 and Su35, which will now be on standby, can whip the nearly 30 year old F16, Russia beats NATO. Russia needs to know this now before the real game begins.<br /><br />Russia will now have the perfect excuse to start testing all its modern generation of armaments. Turkey is only in NATO because it is the buffer state between the West and the real Arabs, not because the West actually loves them. Turkey. has made a tremendous mistake by backing the wrong side and the Ottoman Empire will end up being shrunk yet again.<br /><br />China is still the wild card with the most to lose.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15241573027569769580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-50931125841080780692015-11-25T18:00:30.911-08:002015-11-25T18:00:30.911-08:00So, did Turkey do this on there own? Or under dire...So, did Turkey do this on there own? Or under direction? or....<br />In the end, cui bono?<br />Capn Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08133441332228302495noreply@blogger.com