What? Russia and Putin are leading a confederation to attack Israel? Ok, that is pretty funny. If this is a holy war, then why is an overwhelmingly
Christian country allying with Islamic nations? To what aim? What could Russia
possibly gain out of the destruction of Israel?
Why are you trying to fit everything into what
you believe will happen rather than maybe accepting that things might go another way? The approach you're taking is rather like firing an arrow into a wall, and then painting a target around it.
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Turkey is both a political as well as military ally of the US, as well as other NATO nations. China is neither to the US, although we maintain diplomatic relations, of course. I also think that they have forgotten that they certainly benefited from US military assistance, since they certainly were not strong enough (at the time) to have beaten the Japanese and kicked them out of their own country. If you look at what happened in places such as Nanking- it is easy to see what type of plans that Tojo had for China- similar to what Hitler had in mind for Russia. Some fucking thanks we get.
I think just calling them 'diplomatic relations' is a bit shallow. Over half of the consumer products in your house are probably made in China, most likely along with the screen you're reading this on and the keyboard you'll type your reply on. What's the amount of trade between China and the US? I hazard a guess in the realm of 'an awful lot'. China benefits from the cash, US companies benefit from cheap products and labour, which is why so many have moved production over there.
Imagine China turns a good half of their industrial capacity to military production, and raises its own army past the 3,000,000 they already have (which already makes them by far the largest army in the world). Not a pretty thought, is it. As Mao said, 'Who cares if we lose 400 million people in a nuclear war? We'll have another 400 million left.' Also, last I checked, they had nuclear weapons and the capability to launch stuff into space...
China is certainly not a country to mess with. Hence the lack of action on North Korea and Burma, it's their sphere of influence.
And it was the British army under General William Slim who forced the Japanese out of mainland Asia. The US provided some logistical and engineering support, but it was a British campaign. Read up on him, possibly the greatest military commander to ever live.
And yes, Turkey is applying for EU membership. They'd better start behaving like Europeans then. I cite again the example of Germany, which has come to terms with what occurred, acknowledged it and moved on. Would it be so bad for Turkey to apologise? Even calling it a genocide in Turkey will land you in jail (along with an awful lot of other things). Somewhere, something isn't right. Again, the principle of the issue cannot be disputed.
Besides, isn't it the US who's been calling loudest for them to keep out of northern Iraq? Wouldn't this help you're talking about come from them? European countries for the most part have kept out of this situation, it has little to do with them.
What do the EU and the UN have to do with this particular issue at all anyway? Neither have said anything about it. You're just trying to somehow blame something (what, exactly, I don't know) on your usual scapegoats.
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And, yes, China IS something to worry about because they will become part of this Gog-Magog alliance.
he is discussing Israel after all. I don't suppose he'd get balanced reporting about Israeli goings-on from, say, a Finnish news source for example, considering everything. 
Sad, but true....