Access to the Black Sea (Their Fleet at Sevastopol) and access to the Atlantic though the Bosporus is far more important. Turkey controls those and they are in NATO. Invading Russia through Ukraine would have little strategic merit.
Access to the Black Sea (Their Fleet at Sevastopol) and access to the Atlantic though the Bosporus is far more important. Turkey controls those and they are in NATO. Invading Russia through Ukraine would have little strategic merit.I'm not for a second defending Russia or suggesting they have a right to invade Ukraine here or anything but it is worth considering both sides of the dispute. Fear works both ways. The Ukraine border with Russia almost doubles the combined total of the NATO countries who border it.
Ukraine signed an agreement with Russia to give up its nuclear weapons it inherited in collapse of USSR and Russia agreed to respect Ukraines territory.Of course they are. My point is, aren't Russia entitled to feel threatened by such a move, especially when such a move would allow the US to land on their border? NATO has increased substantially over the years and I can understand why Russia feel threatened by this. The stakes are not purely being racheted up by Russia here, the US are doing nothing to diffuse matters as far as I can see. I think we get a very one sided view of the conflict in our media.
Ha, ha! Yes, there's an element of truth in that. However, there has been progress. It's getting there.....We've been 30 years away from Fusion for the last 70 years.
It does. It exercises it regularly. (Or at least whenever the knackered, Putin-drained Russian economy can afford to send stuff over.)Does Cuba have that right?
This is worth a read.Ha, ha! Yes, there's an element of truth in that. However, there has been progress. It's getting there.....
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
A lab in Oxfordshire takes a big step towards harnessing the energy source of the stars.www.bbc.com
From the same link:Ha, ha! Yes, there's an element of truth in that. However, there has been progress. It's getting there.....
Its amazing that Erdogen another hardman and quasi buddy of Putin's has been very quite through all this. It could be something to do with the huge fall in the Turkish lira and rampant inflation there, maybe he is trying to get back into Biden's good books again by reverting back to Turkey's traditional role in NATO during the cold war. Maybe he is hoping that Putin is about to make a big blunder and he can capitalise by increasing Turkey's role in Syria when Putin is preoccupied with UkraineAccess to the Black Sea (Their Fleet at Sevastopol) and access to the Atlantic though the Bosporus is far more important. Turkey controls those and they are in NATO. Invading Russia through Ukraine would have little strategic merit.
There's over a half a million automotive jobs in Turkey, Most of those are employed in companies headquartered in NATO countries. Without trade with the West Turkey has no economy.Its amazing that Erdogen another hardman and quasi buddy of Putin's has been very quite through all this. It could be something to do with the huge fall in the Turkish lira and rampant inflation there, maybe he is trying to get back into Biden's good books again by reverting back to Turkey's traditional role in NATO during the cold war. Maybe he is hoping that Putin is about to make a big blunder and he can capitalise by increasing Turkey's role in Syria when Putin is preoccupied with Ukraine
The optics of German troops marching East wouldn't be good though, would they?I think Turkey also sent jets to Poland as part of the NATO response, putin wouldn't have liked that because it means that even Turkey is also united even if it is just tokenism. But Turkey responded before Germany did which is telling
They sent troops and tanks to Lithuania yesterday though but only after alot of pressure and arm twisting from colleagues especially in Eastern Europe. I think the response by Nato has put putin on the backfoot and also that Ukraine is standing firm and staying calmThe optics of German troops marching East wouldn't be good though, would they?
Note for any Trinity graduates, I think he is standing in the by election for the Seanad, although maybe he is of more use elsewhere...very good analysis from Tom Clonan (as usual).
I'm one of the great unwashed so I am not good enough to participate in that undemocratic process.Note for any Trinity graduates, I think he is standing in the by election for the Seanad, although maybe he is of more use elsewhere...
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