Russian oligarchs are evading sanctions by parking their yachts and money in Turkey. Turkey is bankrupt and desperate for the cash infusion. $250,000 will buy a person Turkish citizenship. Turkey is playing a very dangerous game here by trying to be Russia's friend and yet still stay in NATO. Sooner or later they are going to get burnt. Looks like Turkey is playing Russian Roulette ? They need and will use each other and both their armies will get defeated soon when they charge up the Golan Height mountains. I do sincerely believe that it'll be Turkey that leads the Gog Magog invasion. Not because I think I'm so smart (newsflash: I'm not. ? ?) or a desire to be contrary but because it seems to be where the evidence leads. However, Russia could certainly be involved as a bit player as they have some military assets in Syria. One of the reasons is that Turkey under the Ottoman Empire committed some absolutely horrible crimes in which they were never punished. (At least on this earth.) Upwards of 1.5 million people were murdered in Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) and the government of Turkey vehemently denies this to this very day. They have even spent countless billions of dollars to try to strongarm other countries into not recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Absolutely disgraceful. Not to mention the murder of up to 1.5 million other people groups such as the Greek Orthodox, Assyrian Christians, Syrian Orthodox, etc. Some of termed it the "perfect genocide." In other words, a a crime that they seemingly unpunished for. I do believe that there will be earthly justice (Gog Magog destruction) as well as Justice at the Great White Throne Judgement. In fact, it was in the pogroms of 1895-96 that the term Holocaust was first used in reference to a genocide. The New York Times reported on an Armenian Genocide taking place. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were murdered at that time. Interestingly enough, Holocaust is actually a Greek word in reference to a burnt offering. Anyway, the wicked Turkish Government is on a very dangerous path. I strongly feel their Sauron like gaze will soon turn to the Holy Land. The 100th anniversary of the end of the Ottoman Empire is in 2023 and Turkey is still bitter about it. Oh and this is not to say that all Turkish people are bad. There are many good Turkish people and many have been jailed or even murdered for speaking the truth about these genocides. There were also many good Turkish people who helped protect or shelter Armenians or other people groups from destruction. It is their governments that have been wicked and especially under Erdogan who is certain very Gogesque. For reference and these are conservative estimates and don't even list all of them, as unbelievable as that may sound: Sorry, that should read The New York Times reported on an Armenian Holocaust taking place in 1895. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1868 Unfortunately,much of the American media still thinks that the Armenian genocide is subject to debate. Until recently, many American newspapers wrote about the "alleged" Armenian genocide or felt obliged to give equal weight to Turkey's denial of this grotesque crime. To counter such historical inaccuracy, in June 1998 the Association of Genocide Scholars unanimously defined this event as the 20th century's first genocide. Two years later, 126 Holocaust scholars, including Elie Wiesel -- awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong effort to bear witness to genocide -- published a petition in the New York Times affirming "the incontestable fact of the Armenian genocide." Denial of the Armenian genocide didn't always exist in this country. Before World War I, Americans knew exactly what had occurred. During the 1890s, American reformers launched a human-rights campaign to protest repeated massacres of the Armenian people. In September 1895, the New York Times headlined a story as "Another Armenian Holocaust." During 1915, that paper published 145 articles about the mass murder of the Armenian people, describing the massacre as "systematic, "authorized" and "organized by the government." In 1918, Theodore Roosevelt called it "the greatest crime of the war." The rest of the world also knew what had happened. In May 1915, the Allies conceived of the term "crimes against humanity" to describe the Ottoman government's massacres of the Armenian people. When the Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in the 1940s, he said that his definition was based on what the Armenian people had suffered. So what cast such a cloud of uncertainty over the Armenian genocide? The short answer is: oil and military bases. Good grief. OCD kicking in. :wacko: I do rather dislike this 5 minute limit to edit posts. :negative: Some of termed it the “perfect genocide.” In other words, a a crime that they seemingly unpunished for. I do believe that there will be earthly justice (Gog Magog destruction) as well as Justice at the Great White Throne Judgement. That should read: Some have termed it the "perfect genocide." In other words, a crime that they were seemingly unpunished for. Note: I don't actually have OCD but it does run in my mother's side of the family. I may have a touch of it. 😉
