Topol-M road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.(RIA Novosti / Syisoev)
John R. Schindler, Observer: Mounting Evidence Putin Will Ignite WWIII
By letting Putin get away with whatever he likes in Syria, Obama has created a deeply dangerous situation.
Relations between Russia and Turkey have been dismal since late November, when a Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian bomber on the border with Syria, killing its pilot. That began a war of words between Moscow and Ankara that ought to concern everyone, since the former has several thousand nuclear weapons and the latter is a member of NATO.
Kremlin propaganda against Ankara has increased of late, setting the stage for further confrontation. As I explained here last week, Russian media outlets initially blamed the Sinai crash of Metrojet 9268 last autumn on the Islamic State, an atrocity which killed 224 innocents, nearly all of them Russians—a quite plausible claim. However, the Kremlin has abruptly shifted course and now blames the mass murder on Turkish ultranationalist terrorists without any evidence provided to support that explosive assertion.
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WNU Editor: Strange .... the Russians have been asking the same question .... will the West ignite World War III .... Russia claims Turkey is about to invade Syria – and trigger World War 3 (Daily Star).