As every Romanian knows, the legendary King Vlad “the Impaler” speared 10,000 captured Turkish soldiers on stakes to terrify an invading muslim-Turkish army, which turned and left the country. He also annihilated every native criminal in Romania the same way. It is said you could drop a purse full of gold coins on the street – – and it would lie there untouched three weeks later.
The ultimate “badass,” Vlad the Impaler, stopped Islam “by all means necessary”!
…..Brawl among Turkish parliamentarians
So I guess even the warmonger, Greater-Turkey nut, and radical Islamist Erdogan is too wimpy for these hardline guys:
https://www.rt.com/news/482342-turkey-parliament-fistfight-idlib-deaths/
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…..Peace-seeking Putin, bending over backwards, turning the other cheek, sits down with Erdogan
Interesting body language….
Acute crisis in Syria’s Idlib demanded our direct talks, Putin says as he meets Erdogan in Moscow
Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the deaths of 34 Turkish troops in last week’s airstrike in Idlib, as the two sat down to the closely-watched one-in-one conversation in Moscow.
“Unfortunately, as I already told you in a telephone conversation, no one, including the Syrian troops, knew about their location,” the Russian President reiterated.
Attributed to the Syrian military, the airstrike prompted Turkey to deploy thousands of troops, tanks and drones into Idlib, the last remaining Syrian province still in the hands of anti-government militants.
The Turkish army also declared any Syrian military asset a legitimate target. As Putin acknowledged during the meeting, the situation in Idlib reached its boiling point.
Now the situation in the well-known zone in Idlib has become so grave that it certainly requires our personal conversation.
“We need to talk through the whole current situation so it won’t repeat itself and won’t harm our relations,” the President stressed. Russia, he pointed out, “treasures” its ties with Turkey.
Erdogan in turn hailed the importance of the meeting as the whole world “has eyes on Moscow.” He believes that “the steps that will be taken today and our decisions will undoubtedly ease the situation.”
Also on rt.com Putin-Erdogan summit: Prelude to Russo-Turkish clash or last best hope for Syrian peace? While the much-awaited meeting started seamlessly, the developments on the ground showed some cracks in Turkey-Russia ties. As Ankara demanded that Russia press President Bashar Assad into halting hostilities in Idlib, Moscow accused Turkey of failing to act on its promise to clear the ‘de-escalation zone’ of jihadist groups.
Nevertheless, both Moscow and Ankara set their hopes high for the meeting in Moscow.
…..as Iran is hit hardest by the coronavirus:
https://www.rt.com/news/482405-iran-coronavirus-us-biological-weapon/
Excerpt:
….the head of Iran’s emergency medical services was being treated for coronavirus. Numerous high-level Iranian officials have fallen ill to the virus. Recently, 23 lawmakers tested positive for the illness in the Islamic Republic. Mohammad Mirmohammadi, a member of a council that advises the supreme leader, died after falling sick from the disease. His death follows those of two other high-profile Iranians who contracted the virus – a former ambassador and a newly-elected member of parliament.
This is reminiscent of the hostility between Imperial Germany and Czarist Russia, where two nations with more to gain decide to lose.
Yes, but Putin is much wiser than Nicholas II. Though he surely cannot stand Erdogan, and it shows in several photos of the two men together, Putin knows personally about the horrors of war from growing up in Leningrad/St. Petersburg, where his own older brother starved to death, one of one million Russian civilians who perished.
But World War III – it would be so much worse — we are talking MegaDeath: billions of humans starving.