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Things might be getting lit fam.
https://aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/egypt-legislators-vote-deploying-troops-libya-200720141515828.html?fbclid=IwAR1xUUFBzhpBXGAG6eB2MhWrNM-_C47M4ZbTcoGD-VmCYz4-7AIF4MR2mzw[Egypt's parliament authorised the deployment of troops outside the country on Monday after the president threatened military action against Turkish-backed forces in neighbouring Libya.
The parliament unanimously approved "the deployment of members of the Egyptian armed forces on combat missions outside Egypt's borders to defend Egyptian national security ... against criminal armed militias and foreign terrorist elements", it said in a statement.
The deployment would be made on a "western front" - a likely reference to western neighbour Libya. The move could bring Egypt and Turkey - which support rival sides in Libya's chaotic proxy war - into direct confrontation.]
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Iran blowing up all over
Trump kicking the Chi Coms out of Houston
Nothing to see here. New cases exploding
By the mid-1970s, at their peak, the United States had 7,000 tactical nuclear weapons in Europe—including almost 500 in Turkey.
Turkey was a special case even then. In 1962, Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev settled the Cuban missile crisis through a secret trade (which remained secret for the next quarter-century): Khrushchev would pull the Soviet missiles out of Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of Florida—and six months later, Kennedy would pull the U.S. missiles out of Turkey, near the southern border of the USSR. The U.S. missiles—15 of them, known as Jupiters—had just been deployed earlier that year. (Eisenhower had agreed to put them there in 1959.) By the time they were dismantled, one of the first Polaris submarines—carrying 16 nuclear missiles—was stationed in the Mediterranean; Kennedy convinced the Turks that the Polaris subs, which could roam beneath the ocean’s surface, undetected, were a far more secure deterrent than the land-based Jupiters.
However, over the next decade, as tactical nukes dotted the European landscape, the Turks eventually got their share of them. And as NATO air bases hosted planes capable of carrying nuclear bombs, the Incirlik base in Southern Turkey got some of those, too.
Concerns were raised about that base in 1974, after Turkey invaded Cyprus, flaring tensions with Greece. In response, the United States removed its nuclear weapons from Greece and put tighter locks on those in Turkey. No alarms were stirred about the security of the other nuclear bases in Europe.
Might be time to bring them home
Rawwwwrrrrrr.
IC's meltdown
In ten years when the Iran disaster is Iraq redux all you clowns will claim you never wanted this war. I'll be taking all the screenshots I need.
Need to verify with a vet that has been to Korea, the Turks there didn't need to have security forces because nothing would ever be stolen. The US bases were always having stuff ripped off. Could be BS - just stuff I heard when I was helping to defend Europe from the Russkies (and making sure no bad beer or wine was shipped back to the states)
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks