More on Turkey. Erdogan has fired up a huge street demonstration, inciting hatred and violence toward Jews, not just Israeli Jews but all of them, spouting the old Muslim crap about them being the children of pigs and dogs.
Do you wonder what’s wrong with this man? He’s the leader of a powerful nation on the Eastern edge of Europe, he’s a member of NATO, and supposed to be an ally of other NATO members and those we protect. Like Israel. He gets his military goods from the USA, mostly, and enjoys a thriving economic relationship with the West along with the protection of it’s alliance and he’s about to throw it all away with his unfit behavior.
His ego has become greater than his common sense, his ascendance to virtual dictatorship in Turkey has overcome his rationality. If he leads Turkey into attacking Israel it will bring only destruction and death to Turkey. No glory, no shining, triumphant kingdom, only the stench of death. That’s what war does. More and more, he reminds me of Benito Mussolini, massively egoist and former dictator of Italy, ripped to shreds by the Italians and hung from a lamp post after WW2 ended, for what he did to Italy.
That the Muslim world wants to attack Israel is now very obvious. What’s stopping them so far is the presence of our military might, and that’s there to prevent the use of nuclear weapons by Israel to keep from being destroyed. So jackasses like Erdogan are trying to skirt the edges, by haranguing the people with Jew hate. That way, if they go off on their own by the tens of thousands to attack Israel, hey, it’s not Turkey’s fault, right? You see, this is not genius. If he succeeds, doesn’t he know that one of Israels nukes has his name on it?
People who ascend to the highest positions of power are not the smartest or most capable, they’re just the ones who want it the most. That doesn’t mean they know what to do with it when they have it, they usually don’t, which is why the world is always in such a mess.
So now, anyway, we have Turkey aligning with Iran, and when this alliance turns into overt action, everyone else is going to join in with them and absolute Hell is going to break out. I’m sure the Pentagon has more than one strategy developed to deal with this but their plans may or may not be what we would like.
There are lots of Muslim demonstrations and uprisings outside the Middle East entirely, here in the USA and in Europe, and we all have far too many Muslims in our nations that are certain to cause immense problems at home while the war rages abroad.
Right now the Israeli leadership is saying what our government and all the Muslims wants to hear, that when this war finally ends, they won’t occupy Gaza. I don’t believe that for a second though, they have to occupy it. If they turn around and leave after wiping out Hamas, the whole mess will just start right back up again. If they don’t annex Gaza outright, then the other option is to get together with Fatah and the Left Bank and jointly govern the area.
But that’s far in the future and wars have a way of going sideways. We will see.