Putin to Turkey: Allah Made You Stupid

I have to admit being somewhat jealous that Russia has a leader who understands the art of mockery and is interested in routing out Islamic terrorism. It’s fairly obvious to me, Turkey blatantly shot down the Russian jet, who was defenseless, without air to air missiles, for the purposes of provoking them into war. That sounds pretty fucking nuts; but is it?

This, of course, had to be part of a NATO strategy, which means it had the direct approval of Obama.

Fun times.

We are not planning to engage in military saber-rattling (with Turkey),” said Putin, after asking for a moment’s silence for the two Russian servicemen killed in the immediate aftermath of the incident, and for Russian victims of terrorism.

“But if anyone thinks that having committed this awful war crime, the murder of our people, that they are going to get away with some measures concerning their tomatoes or some limits on construction and other sectors, they are sorely mistaken.”

Turkey would have cause to regret its actions “more than once,” he said, promising Russia’s retaliatory actions would be neither hysterical nor dangerous.

The rhetoric Putin used will dash hopes of any early rapprochement and deepen a rift between the two countries.

“It appears that Allah decided to punish the ruling clique of Turkey by depriving them of wisdom and judgment,” he said.
Repeating a call for a new broad international coalition against terrorism, Putin, in an overt reference to Turkey, called on countries to avoid “double standards, contacts with any terrorist organizations, and any attempts to use them for their own ends.”

As an aside, UK jets have been targeting ISIS oil fields over the past day, something NATO hasn’t done until Russia started taking out ISIS tankers.

Conspiracies abound.