No word yet on the specific breakdowns or, more importantly, prices.

I cannot believe that this isn’t satire. BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Currently NATO needs Turkey more than Turkey needs NATO. That won’t be the case if things escalate. Firstly, Erdogan is an Islamist, who would much rather bomb the Kurds than act against IS. Like the Saudis, he opposes Assad’s regime and supports several rebel orgs which are not exactly the nice kind. Germany already…

You seem to have no problems with the Novorossiya ethno-supremacist movement though, right? Something which purportedly doesn’t exist at all, except in Western propaganda.

Oh but the Russian argument was that the revolution was led by anti-Semites. If you want to stick to your official position, you might need to show a bit more love for them Jews.

You mean you hate Jews, I gather.

Oh, I forgot how the Crimea was never invaded at all. I hear it is still a part of Ukraine. South Ossetia is also still a part of Georgia, as is Abkhazia and Transnistria, no doubt?

You are correct in your analysis that if this escalates, Turkey will find itself alone, since France isn’t even remotely interested in fighting Russia. That said, Russia doesn’t have enough assets in the region to actually escalate things, and we would need to wait and watch what Putin does to save his image.

Yeah, so you read my reply and concluded that I believe Russia is an innocent snowflake while the US, NATO, and Israel (I know from previous experience with you how much you hate the Jews) are the terrorists. Maybe you made a slight error in judgment, since I am not a gullible idiot. I just dislike hypocrisy, that’s…

How exactly is Putin being expansionist? How many Russian bases are there surrounding the United States right now? How many American bases are there surrounding Russia? Which of those answers leads you to believe he’s being “expansionist”?

If you think dropping unguided bombs can be done with any form of accuracy with civilians around, I am not even gonna bother with saying that you are wrong. My country flies enough Russian fighters and bombers, and these claims are just batshit crazy.

Hey dude, I am a pragmatist. Better with us than them, when it comes to most of the middle eastern countries. I am not making a moral argument here, since shit happens when you drop bombs, and it is only a matter of time. I am just irked by the hypocrisy. There are good reasons why Russia can’t be included in the…

I don’t think the Russians are bombing with any accuracy. I was just pointing out the irony of the moral position, that’s all.

The Saudis are allies. We can drop them as allies, I suppose, before we make noise about the Russians doing the same thing in Syria. But that isn’t gonna happen, since the US sold it the bombs that were dropped in Yemen. Maybe we should look at ourselves before pointing fingers, despite the itch to do so when it comes…

Yeah, the folks that died there on that day can’t tell the difference either. Maybe they should be extremely pleased that they were hit with costly equipment. And no, the intelligence wasn’t bad, it was just a fucked up decision. The MSF had already alerted the US about their location.

Yeah, it is precise. I don’t think the US uses dumb bombs in that region. But they might as well have dropped cheap ones, because the end result was the loss of innocent lives, right? And waste of money.

Well, I think the double standards works both ways. When the Saudis drop cluster bombs in Yemen, it is shrugged off like nothing ever happened, because they are an ally of the west. Assad does it in Syria, and we act like the roof just crashed. In the grander scheme of things, all of this doesn’t matter, but the…

Well, the article is a clear case of kettle calling the pot black. Saudi Arabia carpet bombs cities in Yemen, but the US doesn’t stop calling it an ally or ponder about the moral implications of being associated with them. Assad/Russia does a similar thing and Tyler ponders about how we could include them into a…

Saudi Arabia is a US ally. They are also an ally in Syria, providing aid to multiple rebel factions. If you can agree that bringing Russia into the coalition is impractical because it goes against US interests and the interests of its allies, and not because we have some moral opposition to how Russia is bombing…

The Saudi Arabians have been cluster bombing Yemen. We haven’t really dumped them from the coalition.