File image of a B61-12 guided nuclear bomb. Screengrab of US Air Force Video.
Zero Hedge: Erdogan Holding 50 US Tactical Nukes 'Hostage' As Trump Authorizes Sanctions
Amid all the media and pundit outrage since Turkey's President Erdogan launched his so-called 'Operation Peace Spring' into northeast Syria last week, vowing to wipe out Syrian Kurdish forces who've long held the border areas, what's been largely missing is acknowledgement of the uncomfortable fact that NATO ally Turkey has long hosted a major portion of America's nuclear Cold War-era arsenal stored across Europe.
And as Erdogan threatens to "open the doors and send 3.6 million migrants" to Europe while under increased international criticism for the rapidly rising civilian death toll in Syria, The New York Times reports the following bombshell Monday: some 50 US tactical nukes are "now essentially Erdogan’s hostages".
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WNU Editor: The New York Times article that is making this "hostage" claim is here .... Trump Followed His Gut on Syria. Calamity Came Fast (New York Times).
The "money quote" is here ....
.... Those weapons, one senior official said, were now essentially Erdogan’s hostages. To fly them out of Incirlik would be to mark the de facto end of the Turkish-American alliance. To keep them there, though, is to perpetuate a nuclear vulnerability that should have been eliminated years ago.
3 comments:
With ally as Turkey, we don't need enemy. Turkey has to been out of NATO since a long time. We have to take our nuclear weapons out of this hostile country.
Start now. Nonessential personal, secrets, then bombs.
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