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Russian Missile Destroyer "Fires Warning Shots" To Avoid Collision With Turkish Vessel
Another day, another military escalation between Russia and Turkey, this time not in the air, but on the water in the northern part of the Aegean sea, where the crew of the Russian "Smetlivy" destroyer was forced to use firearms on Sunday to prevent a collision with a Turkish seiner vessel according to a statement by Russia's Ministry of Defense.
The full statement from Russia's Defense Ministry read that "the crew of the Russian patrol ship Smetlivy which was located 22 kilometres from the Greek island of Lemnos in the northern part of the Aegean Sea avoided collision with a Turkish seiner."
The crew of the Kashin-class guided missile destroyer Smetlivy spotted the Turkish fishing trawler some 1,000 meters from the Russian warship early on Sunday morning, the ministry said. The ship was sailing towards the destroyer and ignored calls for radio contact and other attempts to communicate.
The destoyer's morning crew spotted an approaching Turkish ship at a distance of approximately one kilometer. The seiner did not get on the air for radio contact with the Russian ship and did not respond to signal lamps or flairs.
Upon the Turkish seiner's dangerously close approach to "Smetlivy" at a distance of 600 meters, the Russian partol ship fired a shot beyond the hitting range of the fireamrs to avoid collision.
The ministry said the Turkish fishing ship changed course after that and kept about 540 meters from the Smetlivy, but didn’t contact the Russian warship.
“Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov has summoned the military attaché of the Turkish embassy in Russia in connection with the incident in the Aegean Sea,” the statement said.
Muzaffer Gecici, who is the owner of the Turkish fishing vessel Geciciler Balikcilik, however flatly denied the Russian claims saying that his boat and the Russian warship had a distance of at least 1 mile (1.6 km), speaking to the Turkish media.
He also stated that the Russian warship was not on the move and nobody heard any warning shots from the destroyer, adding that his vessel is technologically well-equipped and that he has already given footage from the incident to the Turkish Coast Guard.
Meanwhile, the Russian ministry has released another statement after it summoned Turkey’s military naval attache in Moscow, Rear Admiral Ahmet Gunes, saying that the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov had “a conversation” with Gunes. The statement has also claimed that the Turkish vessel, which is a small civilian fisher boat, was able to provoke the Russian military guard ship Smetlivy.
“Just by good fortune, the tragedy had been avoided,” the statement kept claiming.
For now there is no official (or unofficial) closure of the Bosphorus to Russian shipping, however as noted previously, this does remain a key Turkish trump card, one which however Putin would promptly read as an declaration of war by Erdogan, and as a further reminder, the bloody Russo-Turkish was of 1828 was sparked by nothing less than the closure of the Dardanelles Strait to Russian ships.
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summoned the military attaché just to hand him the bill for the bullets used.
Erdogan is a rabid Chihuahua.
He will end-up in Vlad’s taxidermy collection. ;-)
Looney
He's a real hothead and a loose cannon. Keep poking that bear and see what happens!
Erdogan is just following orders from the USSA State Department.
The USSA/City of London Banksters need a war to cover up the impending derivative implosion. Russia must be blamed for the fall of the Fed Reserve Dollar system.
Bingo....as Mako would say..time to 'liquidate the walking unfunded liabilities'
wars cover up banksters secrets.......
When the dancing bear will start it will be hearded to get out of it
https://vimeo.com/11342581
Erdogan should be very worried for himself and his family, He has opened up a battle on multiple fronts. Russia, Kurds, Syria, Iran, Iraq.
His biggest ally is the lazy thinkers called the West and the CIA which is used to losing battles. He has a civil war brewing and he is now the target of hit squads from mutliple countries.
Wonder what the NATO plan is for Turkey. It's far too strategic to be left to chance. Isnt it?
Putin atop his powerful steed in his leopard skin tights ripping his shirt off in fury a la Hulk Hogan while mother Russia with her pendulous breasts and distended belly looks on in agony.
So... now we all know the contents of your wank bank.
Get up off your knees from the glory hole. Remove your butt plug and put it back in your Prada work bag. Leave the railway station toilets and turn yourself in to the authorities immediately.
Intelligence vessels are often disguised thus...
Spoctor Din ;-)
Just another provocation to draw nato(us) into the fight.
"Putin atop his powerful steed in his leopard skin tights ripping his shirt off in fury a la Hulk Hogan while mother Russia with her pendulous breasts and distended belly looks on in agony."
Are you reminiscing the intro to one of your wet dreams?
USSA wants Russia to kill Erodgan....then Turkey falls into chaos a la Libya & Iraq.
This is all about the American petrodollar vs Russia/China
They will NEVER want Turkey to fall to Russia. When the Ottoman empire fell, the zionists double crossed Russia who were promised Constantinople.
They will do anything it takes to stop the Russians from getting easy access to the Med. They were spitting feathers when Russia even just got access to the Black Sea.
Erdogan has that glazed look in his eyes that shows he is either high on something or wacko crazy.
I'd start with some Thorazine before going straight to the electro-shock treaments.
The again, it may just be cataracts.
Do you have any proof that Constaninople was promised to russia?By whom, English thugs?
I don't have good links to share, but Constantinople going to Russia and/or Greece is reportedly one of those "secret understandings", which the Anglo-French side used to cement Russian involvement in the Great War.
Of course, those understandings were rendered moot when Russia's revolutionary government concluded a separate peace with the Central Powers.
FWIW, the Russian Army was camped out on the Sea of Marmara in 1878, and it was only the French and British that kept The City out of Russian hands. Times change.
Chaos...our only real export now.
Operation Turkish Winter.
Worse than making enemies of Russia, Kurds, Syria, Iran & Iraq, Erdogan depends on Zionists to keep his back.
His so called allies will abandon him the moment is becomes just slightly advantageous to Israel for them to do so. That should help him sleep well at night...
Russia is making a big mistake.
They need to get out of the Middle east as soon as possible.
really ? How so? who is going to do what to russia if russia does not "get out of the middle east"?
just asking. your statement strikes me as absurd.
Absurd are the ended biases that DO NOT reflect realities and historical precedents.
Second, Russia has very little to gain. Lot to lose.
Third, Russia is going for the lowest common denomination: Fighting proxy wars that can never be won.
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute….and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana
In case you missed it, oil prices, which support a fair % of Russia's .gov budget, are under pressure. Also, Russia's influence in the ME has waned over the past 30 years. When incremental uncertainty of ME military action is introduced, oil prices historically spike. Gee, I cant see ANY reason Russia might put some chips into (stirring) this pot.
I gotta give it to you Excreta Isyoua... you are highly consistent in your delusional hallucinations.
I am not a ball team fan boy aka bread and circuses.
However, the BRazilan national football (soccer) team suffers from the same delusions. Most recently against the Germans in the semifinals. Brazil was incinerated 7-1.
Hopefully the Germans will wake up before it is too late. Their evil govt and zio media is calling anyone against islam invasion a neo-Nazi.
Shoulda been 8 - 0.
Hey Escrava, you need to stop measuring your logic by word count alone.
Re: Bama -" who is going to do what to russia"
For starters, US/Israel took down Russia's airliner.
Turkey shot down Russia's military jet in Syria.
AFTER these the US flew fighters into Syria and directly bombed a Syrian military base. And for fun blamed Russia for it.
Turkey has moved troops, not just into Iraq, into Syria and Putin is afraid to confront. The US is building an airbase in NE Syria.
If Putin does not respond when the US directly attacks Russia's ground troop proxies it shows he has lost Syria. Wait, that already happened. Ok, we know, he will do it Next time. So, the next time Syrian/Hezbollah/Iran troops are bombed and Putin does nothing we can agree Syria is lost.
So Blanky, what exactly should have Putin done about any of those things? Please give us your grand mid east strategy for Russia.
America is making a big mistake.
They need to get out of the Middle east as soon as possible.
King Salman is making a big mistake.
He, all the Saudi crown princes, and the associated royal hangers on, need to get out of the Middle east as soon as possible.
Out of the middle-east and into Western nations with all the other riff-raff of which there is a LOT. There they can use their wealth to build mosques for the Western public who are in love with Islam and it's message of tolerance towards rape, pedophillia and Sharia.
Fucking white people on drugs.
The U.S. is making a big mistake.
They need to get out of North America as soon as possible.
Israel must get out of the middle East ASAP. They are fighting a fake "right to the Holy Land" which they cannot win. They are not "blood Judahites!", but Khazars of Ukraine. What is the US doing involved?
Israel? You mean Occupied Palestine.
Heard POS Oliver North say: "the Russians must get out of our way in Syria."
I'll finish that for ya ndree : "so that we can murder a bunch of people."
See something Slay something
If you love Brazil, you should want Russia in Syria, and at the very least stop writing nonsense.
(sigh)
I wish you posted before bedtime rather than in the morning.
I can't get Mrs Cherry to cooperate in the mornings, and your avatar just makes the wood ache that much more.
Nasty. I'll take a nice 'plain Jane' with small to normal sized boobs over some used up, mentally/emotionally vapid jew-media-endorsed slutbag.
False. The derivatives were set up precisely so they can bring on CALAMITY. The Protocols of Zion state as much right along with "we will mix up all your races" as is being done right under our noses with the engineered mass migration in the Middle East to the heart of Europe, All the govt's of the weestern powers have been usurped bi the Zio-Mafia.
America power is showing the world who is the real boss.
MEFOBILLS: Using proxy armies is required in a Nuclear World. ISIS is aimed at Iran. Once Iran falls, then Russia is weakened: Sunni fanatics can be aimed at the Caucasus/Chechnia region then onward to China.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-12/isis-simply-saudi-army-disguise#comment-6916651
I really think of all the Mideast players, Iran is the most resilient and stable. They ain't gonna fall.
Iran’s only chance of containment—deterrent means—is by having nuclear weapon.
So, Iran will fall, eventually.
Are you some kind of hyper-sarcastic MDB wannabe or are you actually feeble-minded?
Dame Ednas Possum, I was about to say the same:) However, he is from Brazil, so could be just plain stupidity - I have been in Brazil of and on for 6-7 years and I found stupidity level her quite intolerable. Amazing nature and energy, women, too. But ineficciency and stupidity - incredible. My Bazilian friend says that the big problem of Brazil is Brazilians. I agree. However, still good for strategic relocation - http://visa4brazil.com/
Iran will end up with the Prize = Syria + Iraq
this is Sunni / Shiite division that wont heal
if Iran doesnt go all the way it will inevitably face Israel / Turkey / SA in final huge battle
and Syria / Iraq will be broken up and given to Israel / SA and Turkey
Re Rafter:
Iraq had a best military in the ME, Libya was a stable country and prosperous. Down they went.
Putin to this day has refused to honor the 2007 signed contracts to deliver the S300 or better missile system to Iran and Syria. This keeps Iran and Syria more vulnerable. Putin helped force Syria to give up it's chemical weapons and consented to the sanctions against Iran. These actions and other serve the agenda of Putin/Russia.
Read. The first shipment of S-300 has reahed iran.
Latina Lover: "The USSA/City of London Banksters need a war to cover up the impending derivative implosion. Russia must be blamed for the fall of the Fed Reserve Dollar system."
True, but there's more to it than that. These people/monsters would rather destroy Europe, than have it swing away from them, and toward Silk Road 2.0 that excludes them. Thus, the Balkanization of MENA, and the Islamification of Europe (to destroy its Culture and Nation States) are all part of the Master Plan.
In the final analysis, it is he/they who control earth's arable land, potable water and its minerals, who is truly King Of The World. The Paper Ponzi is but one means toward that end.
+100
Proxy wars and societal collapse in Europe are a giving. Matter of few years.
Will the war and societal collapse come to the US?
Many in the US Department of Defense are working in not letting it come here—spreading in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva_Initiative
Too late baby... Too late.
102 years too late in fact. Almost to the day.
Sure there's been some great times, but it's time to pay the Zio-ferryman.
You know, I just cant see it, no offense. I think Erdogan is as much of an embarassment to Washington as he is to his own country right about now. He seems to be a very divisive element to NATO and I wouldnt be surprised if he suddenly dies of a "heart attack" or something along those lines(maybe an assasin) . You never really know though and I have been wrong before.
so wrong - he is a tool of USA - if he doesnt win all the money for his family with Syria / Iraq breakup - he is dead and Turkey will be put into civil war
Erdo-fucku-gon is also a donmeh.
"embarassment to Washington" Even more so than Joe Biden?
The Turkish people had better pull their heads out of their asses and FAST!
The USA is a "friend" of Turkey...take a look around you Turks...Afghan, Syria, Iraq...all "Friends of the USA"...
The real question is Erdogan stupid enough to think he will not be abandoned as every other pawn has been..
"Erdogan is just following orders from the USSA State Department."
Erdogan, Obama, Merkel, Cameron, Trudeau, Hollande, Mickey Mouse...
Will the same shovel handle be shoved up Erdogan's ass as was used on Gaddafi?
Yes Latina, Turkey is a NATO member, it does not use it's military against the Russian Federation without orders from headquarters. The SU-24 shoot down was a direct order from the Pentagon. "Kill one of theirs and see how they react."
The American engineer who designed the F-16 wrote an Op Ed that lays out in detail how Turkey laid the ambush that got the Russian bomber. It required great co-ordination, including tanker aircraft to keep the Turkish planes on station for hours at low altitude waiting for the Russians to make their bombing runs, just as Russia infoprmed the USA they would do. The F-16 orbited at low altitude under Russian radars, buring enormus amounts of fuel to stay in position. They popped up for an instant to fire, then dropped down again and raced away. An ambush that could only have worked "IF the Turks knew just where the Russians were going to bomb". Enter the USA, who had that exact information for Turkey to do the deed. You think Putin isn't pissed?
Was this Pierre Sprey? He also worked on the A-10 and quite the F-15 because it got too big. The other men he worked with on the F-16 including the engineers was Colonel John Boyd and Colonel Eugene Richionni. Boyd was a top fighter pilot and developed most of the USA fighter pilot doctrine. He was a very bright man. Richionni was more of a test pilot.
Note that the F-16 was made by General Dynamics aka the Crown-Krinsky crime family that was an LBJ supporter, McCain and Obola. The family was also very nexus to the demise of JFK and RFK plus the F-111 scandal that was directly connected to LBJ before JFK was murdered. .
http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/04/crown-crime-family-of-chicago.html
NATO wants to provoke Russia, so that Turkey can close the Bosphorus to Russian Vessels. No Fishing Vessel would dare challenge a russian military ship unless under orders. This is typical of the USSA's strategy of tension, trying to provoke Putin into making mistakes.
Yes but what is Russia to do? US are deploying troops to northern Iraq to close off that route and Turks will close the Bosphorous.
Russians need to secure either Iraq or invade Constaninople....fast. Makes more sense to secure Iraq as it'll be easier to defend with the help of Iran. This HAS to happen in the next week or so.
ali why not do both??
He'd be spreading himself too thin. U.S/UK are still to escalate in Ukraine.
Putin does not need to invade any one, he gets welcomed to there country. Great example Iraq. But I think he does not want to jump from country to country, he needs a stable Syria first.
Don't worry about the Ukraine. The Ukie conscripts do not want to be there. They handed over loads of tanks, BMP, artilerry, ammo, APCs and other weapons to the DPR (Donetsk) and LPR in the last two cauldrons.
DPR PM Alexander Zakarchenko has said there will be NO Minsk 3. When the Ukriane aka ZATO was losing badly and was encircle twice - they begged for a cease fire akak Minsk 1 and 2.
Zakarchenko and the LPR PM signed Minsk 2 because Putin wanted them to back off. As a condition to Minsk 2 - Zakarchenko said there will be no Minsk 3. DPR and LPR will not back off if zio-Kiev starts shit again.
The DPR today has an army that could beat most western European countries. Maybe not Germany which is turning Islamic or the UK which is already Soros-Zio Islamic.
Greece is the wild card.
Greece needs to stop groveling in the dirt and become men again and leave NATO & the EU and join Russia.
It truly is a footrace (pun intended) now, to get 'Boots On The Ground' for both Alliances (Russia/Syria/Iran vs. ZATO/KSA/Turkey).
These forces must control the land bridge that will either go East-West (Iran-Iraq-Syria-Europe), or North-South (KSA-Iraq-Syria-Turkey-Europe). Northern Iraq and Northern Syria are key.
Neither side can afford to back down, so the ZATO alliance keeps doubling down (in predictable Chutzpah tradition), while the Bear & Friends are trying to play Reactionary Defense, rather than full and decisive Preemptive Offense. Who has the superior strategy, while avoiding tactical mistakes? Only time will tell. But the relentless and steady escalation by Turkey is very, very troubling for the whole world, not just the ME region.
I hope something happens to him soon. I think the chihuahua just took a leak in the punch bowl.
Hey! That's Tyler's trick!
Erdogan is a rabid Chihuahua in the eyes of the Soviet citizens posting here. But to a rational actor, he's the head of a NATO member state.
All 500 rabid Zero Hedge members won't change that, folks. :-)
Ooooooooooo... time for your rations, actor.
Sometimes the best way to keep a dog from chasing cars is to let him catch one.
that will be the next tax we peons will have to pay, ordinance tax to keep the guns loaded. some of those bullets probably cost more than many people earn in wages for a year.
Hey, the USAF already said that they needed special appropriations for more bombs because they'd used so much up on ISIS.
The McCain Doctrine.
Terror rains drenchin', quenchin' the thirst of the power dons
That five sided fist-a-gon
The rotten sore on the face of mother earth gets bigger,
The triggers cold empty ya purse
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk tha corner to tha rubble that used to be a library
Line up to tha mind cemetary now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pockets full of shells
-Excerpt from Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine (1996)
Prophetic words, but then again it's been happening since the dawn of empire. And before people accuse me of siding with De la Rocha in all other areas of his politics, I don't.
Hey, this morning why don't you go widdershins around a kirk?
Love me some fucking RATM
And this my friends is how you keep from becoming a victim to...suicide-boaters.
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Now wut?
An American flagged naval ship would have been ordered to immediately stop and take on all the Turkish boaters, then air lift them to "safety" so they could be issued visas!
(Sigh) ;-)
More like the Seiner was on autopilot with the crew sorting the catch out the back!
But hey, why waste an incident....!
Too early to draw conclusions. Was a fishing boat. Could have had a drunk crew celebrating too much. Could have been something else, but who knows
US/NATO wants to goad Russia into a war
War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It? — Paul Craig RobertsRussia was quickly successful in destroying ISIS arms depots and helping the Syrian army to roll back ISIS gains. Russia also destroyed thousands of oil tankers, the contents of which were financing ISIS by transporting stolen Syrian oil to Turkey where it is sold to the family of the current gangster who rules Turkey.
Washington was caught off guard by Russia’s decisiveness. Fearful that the quick success of such decisive action by Russia would discourage Washington’s NATO vassals from continuing to support Washington’s war against Assad and Washington’s use of its puppet government in Kiev to pressure Russia, Washington arranged for Turkey to shoot down a Russian fighter-bomber despite the agreement between Russia and NATO that there would be no air-to-air encounters in Russia’s area of air operation in Syria.
Although denying all responsibility, Washington used Russia’s low key response to the attack, for which Turkey did not apologize, to reassure Europe that Russia is a paper tiger. The Western presstitutes trumpeted: “Russia A Paper Tiger.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/turkey-shoots-down-a-paper-tiger-1448406008
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/12/07/war-is-on-the-horizon-is-it-t...
As if US, UK, French, Turkish, Israeli militaries were not enough, US wants Germany to join the fray in Syria:
US urges Germany to commit more military might against ISIS – reporthttps://www.rt.com/news/325764-germany-military-syria-isis/
Alas it is.
Even Lady C. who takes no interest in geopolitics,politics or econmics, sees it.
We have just spent $40k on updating/equiping our bugout location and are nearly moved in.
It was time to stop talking and start doing my friends.
Better a few months early,than a day late.
'Balfour: We are probably fools not to find a reason for declaring war on Germany before she builds too many ships and takes away our trade.
White: If you wish to compete with German trade, work harder.
Balfour: That would mean lowering our standard of living. Perhaps it would be simpler for us to have a war... Is it a question of right or wrong? Maybe it is just a question of keeping our supremacy.1'
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/h...
trav7777
''The elites borrow from the CB at 0% and lend to the government at 3%. It's a good trade of free money riding the credit inflation wave. If heliBen were to print up everyone a million dollars, they profit from inflation because they get their million before you do.
Money should not be owned by banks; this situation is an abomination that has led to more wars, deaths, ruin, the Holocaust, than any other. Let the producers who dig up oil, gold, coal, farm for food or create things be the capital that finances expansion, not some parasitic banking clan who monopolized the gold market.
Everything that is occurring is to protect the creditmoney fractional banking racket, which has been institutionalized since the 1600s and goes back even to the time of Jesus.''
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/kansas-city-feds-hoenig-fed-must-hike-f...
F. William Engdahl has written on this. The inevitable outcome of rule by banksters, big corporations, & big government in partnership with one another is impoverishment of the people. This is the definition of fascism. At the eve of WW1, a plundered industrially creaking Britain could no longer compete against a vibrant Germany. The Germans were expanding their science & industry, building transcontinental railroads, and making trade deals. TPTB upset the game board for their own benefit - at the cost of millions of lives.
And the university history profs scratch their heads & wonder why.
Economic - social chaos is what I'm prepped for, not the nuclear exchange kind. The last time I was on standby for a market meltdown was April last year (A couple of posts that indicated my intention at ZH) and again I'll be on standby for it on the 16th. The system is so broken and full of fantasy patchwork, I'm not relying on a repeat of precedents. It could go completely out of control within hours or days - who knows?
Not sure I'd want to survive a full scale nuclear exchange and the high probability of dying a slow, agonizing death. If it looks like it's happening, I'm driving to the nearest primary target (RAF Northwood HQ), take out my lawn chair, put on my shades and light a cigar to watch the final show. No popcorn, just a nce bottle of port. :)
I've lookked at all the targeting data and fallout paterns.
A melt down of the Turkey Point reactor is probably my biggest concern depending on the time of year.
I'm well aware of the problem you have in the UK, a very small inhabited land mass,thats
target rich.Airstip One is so fucked if this goes nuclear,yet my sons will not hear of moving
stateside.
The marauding hungry mob will be problem number one in WWIII or a financial meltdown.
The Britsh stiff upper lip in adversity is long gone and I doubt it ever existed in the USA,whatever
Hollywood portrays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-lDY02DThk&html5=1
I'm in NYC.
Fucked Aye!
I'd argue that this is just a pretext to manipulate NATO countries to have enough military "Skin in the Game", to force them to toe the NATO/ZATO line, when the Ignition Sequence** starts.
** The Globalists/Zionists will create a credible False Flag, that ends the Proxy War and starts the Direct War.
And if China thinks they can just sit it out -- while smiling, making deals and playing all sides -- they and their self-dealing Oligarchs are sorely mistaken. They are next to be assaulted, if Russia falls. Of course, by then, there may not be a world left that's worth fighting over.
Maybe Germany should protect their borders or the German military start removing Muslims and Turks from Germany.
Some of the German army had the guts to try to kill the z-NWO-bankster puppet named Hitler.
Destroyer versus fishing boat.
Brings back memories of the cod war off Iceland back in the 1970s.
The "cod war," eh?
Is that like a fish fight?
A trout bout?
A sea bass kick-ass.
"Are they ill-tempered?"
A flounder 15 rounder.
Trout...oh yeah, this gives me a flashback: Steve slaps Sam around a bit with a large trout.
Who remembers what I mean?
The good old mIRC /slap command.
$ /slap Conan <cr>
$ Ralph slaps Conan around with a large trout.
Trout always brings to mind Captain Beefheart's album "Trout Mask Replica", because...trout.
A snapper slapper.
You guys all sound like fellow cunning linguists.
A stunning, er, cunning stunt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4NoGNMe-E0
The quarrel in the coral.
This is fun.
This eel is for real when he says this mackerel smack down will be a whale of a good time. Something is a bit fishy though, as if the game is rigged. Sorry old chum.
"Out for Trout" used to have a different meaning when I was growing up. ;-)
Salman sounds fishy.
This isn't really that interesting of a story - though it's got a flashy headline.
Depends on the context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing
The Aegean would be a Greek lake if the Turks hadn't threatened Greece with casus belli if they extend their territorial waters to 12 miles...which is the normal practice internationally
Currently they extend to a pitiful 6 miles
Turkey routinely 'reserves' huge areas in the Aegean for naval exercises in what are actually Greek territorial waters.
I hope Russia goes to full war with these mofos because Greece is too small/bankrupt to face the bully alone
..btw...Greece and Turkey are NATO 'allies' /massive facepalm/
I'm surprised the Turks have not made a move on Cyprus yet. But if war breaks out, Greeks can kiss Cyrpus bye.
They have no reason to occupy the south
..also Russia is a 'silent partner'of the Cypriots and hopefully a more formal alliance will come into place soon.
Turkey is hated by everyone all around its periphery and I think and hope it will be cut down to size
Amen
"...They have no reason to occupy the south..."
Six trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Aphrodite field (Cyprus Block 12) seems like a pretty good reason.
coffee's ready
These fucks are gonna start ww3.
And this ship was probably an intelligence ship, not a fishing trawler.
lets see.........russia turkey iran saudi england france germany and US all bombing Syria........sounds like WW3 already started.......
just wait til Greenland starts bombing Syria, then you will know its game on
"lets see.........russia turkey iran saudi england france germany and US all bombing Syria"
This alone is ridiculous. It has planned all over it.
Yes, why would a "fishing trawler be near a warship?
"fishing trawler"=spy boat.
Intelegence ship.> It's possible but Russians would have seen antenna arrays, cameras. And they have not mentioned that.
ISIS war ship.> Not likely. They chickened-out.
Fishing boat.> Probably all it really was. Not some great mystery or cover-up.
Here's a Turkish purse seiner for sale. They're a special purpose type of craft for netting fish.
http://horizonship.com/ship/34m-purse-seiner-32m-fish-carrier-x-2-enbloc...
Lolmao.....planned this way, long ago. Here is excerpt Albert Pike's 1871 letter to Mazzini (mafia). Keep in mind many of the words he uses were not "invented" in 1871. How did he know ?
"The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm."
"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."
Of course, it was a ZATO spy ship, flying a Turkish flag-of-convenience.
Why else would they (a) Keep radio silence, and (b) Keep shadowing the Russian ship? Duh!
Looks like a deliberate provocation by Turkey to give Erdogan an excuse to close the Bosphorous and earn browny points with NATO.
Question is: what Turk would agree to do that knowing that the Russian ship might fire on his trawler and blow it - and the crew - to pieces?
Ref Montreaux Convention regarding passage through Straits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_o...
It's a complex treaty that no one understands, so it's Mussolini's fault.
We should bomb Italy.
F-O-R-W-A-R-D ------<<
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possible, but it is as likely, or even more, that it was just a trawler not even thinking about the whole thing and just doing it's work
trawlers, particularly with Turkish captains, are used to warships zipping past them without even a contemptuos glance. just check the max speed of that piece of Russian navy, the chances of a workship ramming it is literally zero, and the Aegean is crowded with all kind of ships
meanwhile, that trawler could also be a "safe ship" belonging to some intelligence outfit, state or private, or a mercenary smuggler catering to intelligences
Apparently the Russian warship was stationary at the time.
The trawler could have been a spy boat bristling with hi-tech stuff.
It could have been loaded with explosives (!)
A distraction while the frogmen planted mines.
So far, there's been no reports of a big bang in the Aegean.
stationary... 22 miles from Lemnos? now this is really unlikely (or even suspicious) for a Russian warship to be stationary there
anyway, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashin-class_destroyer has four gas turbines that allow it to accellerate up to 38 kn : 70 km/h : 44 mph
the Russian captain could have done what was usual, until lately, and just showed off his legs. no trawler could ever match those
or blinded it with it's searchlights, or any usual measure, and they are plenty
instead, he choose to use a page from the new book of "how to engage Turkish vessels". hohum
It was 22Km I believe and I was only going by the RT.com news report earlier today about what it was doing at the time.
I think it was very restrained that the Russian vessel didn't blow the Turk trawler out of the water after two warnings.
That would introduce a whole new meaning to the phrase:
"two strikes and your out."
please leave a message after the tone - gone fishing, bang!
Smetlivy to avoid collision next time, aim better.
Problem solved.
Turkish jihadists in suicide boats, you gotta light them up when they start coming
To close the Bosphorus by Turkey will be the same as to close the gas from Russia to Turkey.
Erdogan will be removed from power within weeks by the military.
If this is the worst scenario, I say bring it on already so that Erdogan fuck is removed before he starts WW3.
He gets his orders from Bath House, who gets his orders from ZATO.
And if Erdogan is not removed by the Turkish military, he will be removed by the Russian military...
Maybe Russia ought to kidnap his son in law who does the ISIS oil deals
He'll prolly remove himself then.
I'm not sure about that. Army officers have a vested interest in war, too.
Erdogan installed his pupets at army commands by now.
TURKEY CONSIDERING CALLING UN SECURITY COUNCIL AND NATO MEETINGS AFTER WHAT IT CALLS A FLAGRANT ATTACK BY RUSSIA IN THE AEGEAN SEA
Way to go Putinero
1453 must not happen again!