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HoosierCowboy

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3. Turkey will need Causus Belli

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Oct 7, 2014, 11:28 PM

Oct 2014

Which will happen when ISIS forces defile the tomb of Suleyman II.
They're just waiting to kick ISIS off the planets largest untapped reserve of petroleum, which used to belong to Turkey, but was lost in the aftermath of WWI in the Treaty of Versailles.
While ISIS exhausts itself fighting the Kurds, Turkey will sit back and wait for the proper moment.
It was Churchill's doing that forced Turkey into the Austro Hungarian side during WWI by screwing them out of a battleship. It's an interesting history.
ISIS is dead meat sitting on all that oil.

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