machawicket
So the Russian ambassador to Turkey was just assassinated in Ankara, and Turkey is in NATO, which means other NATO members must come to its aid in the event of a shooting war, and the U.S. is ~a month from swearing in an unintelligent, uninformed, pro-Russian, ham-fisted asshat as president, so I’m pretty sure this is how WWIII starts.
marthawells
It was nice knowing all you guys.
cumaeansibyl
Oh no, it’s even better than this: Russia is claiming NATO orchestrated the shooting to prevent a Russo-Turkish alliance
Anyway, both Erdogan and Putin are the kind who’d just love an excuse to ramp up security and start brutalizing opponents at home and abroad, so someone needs to find out if Karlov was already on the Kremlin’s shitlist because he may well have been sacrificed by his own government
