[The following is my best memory of the Truth, the Whole Truth and nothing but the Truth – thankfully protected by the First Amendment.]

The Muslim Brotherhood has trained Western National Intelligence to believe Putin is trying to recreate either the Soviet Union or the pre-WWI Russian Empire and is the preeminent EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO CIVILIZATION.  I believe the three genuine Existential Threats to Civilization are the CCP, the IRG and the multi-faceted Muslim Brotherhood – not Putin and Russia.

[Every election that favors Russian interests whether in Russia or elsewhere is immediately declared by the WWSOG-BOG as illegitimate.  No crooked Erdogan election has ever been challenged by the WWSOG-BOG.  And President-for-Life Zelinsky also goes unchallenged.]

The fantasy a genuine tyrant is following to recreate a pre-WWI empire is that of Erdogan and the Islamic Republic of Turkey.  Erdogan’s tyranny has stolen Turkey from the Ataturk-created post-WWI secular westernizing state it had been from WWI until the 1990s a decade after the Cold War ended.  His tyranny (domestic and foreign) is never an ‘ISSUE’ for the ‘CIVILIZED WORLD’  to consider.  The following constitutes ten real but forgotten facts of Turkish history.

1. Turks are a varying Asian language group of many so-called ‘ethnicities.’
2. Many Asian Turkish groups from 751 onward fell under the jurisdiction of the Abbasid Caliphate in Bagdad until the Mongols came in 1258.
3. The tribe of Osman (Ottoman Turks) living in Anatolia escaped the Mongol onslaught by sheer luck.
4. From the early 1300s onward, the Ottoman Turkish Empire grew by conquest to effectively rule both almost the entire Islamic World and much of southern Christian Eastern Europe.
5. Starting in the early 1300s, Ottoman flotillas roamed the Central and Western Mediterranean acquiring slaves from Christian Europe. For about three centuries, until losing the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, southern Italy and eastern Spain were the primary victims.  The Turks would land, slaughter the adults, put the female children into harems or bordellos and turn the male children into slave warriors called Janissaries all back home in Turkey.  Their armies were virtually dominant in Eastern Europe for centuries.
6. The Janissaries were the ‘cannon fodder’ with high casualties leading their armies to victory. In 1453, they conquered Constantinople after subjugating much of the Christian Balkans.  From that point forward, they grew rich by monopoly control of the Trade Routes to the Far East until the 1500s when first the Portuguese and then Dutch and English ships provided an alternate avenue of trade.
7. First in the early 1500s and again in the 1680s, they marched an army up to Vienna – the Eastern Outpost of the Hapsburg Christian Empire, but each time they failed to conquer Vienna. Nonetheless, European Christian lands to the south and east were dominated by the Ottomans for centuries to come.
8. Many countries ruled Ukrainian Territory over the centuries. The Swedes from the early 1600s for a century were dominant until 1709 when King Charles’ Swedish army was defeated by Peter the Great’s Russian Army at Poltava.  Southern Ukraine slowly fell to the Russians of Catherine the Great who built the city of Odessa as a trading port for tax money in the late eighteenth century.
9. Even into the nineteenth century (when western slavery came to an end), the Turkish armies were still using Christian slave boys mostly from the Balkans as their ‘cannon fodder.’ No other armies, in the history of the world, used slaves of another ethnic group as ‘cannon fodder.’
10. The history of the world is filled with ethnic minorities living under the rule of a different ethnic group – but only the Ottoman Turks used slave warriors of a different group as the basic casualty-suffering ‘cannon fodder’ – for quite a few centuries.

Conclusions

1. In the spirit of ‘SLAVERY, REPARATIONS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.’ Spanish, Italian, Serbian and other southern Slavic Christians are owed an enormous reparation debt by the Erdogan tyranny worth many times greater than what passes for the wealth of Erdogan’s Turkey today.
2. Kurds and Druze were the herdsmen of sheep providing wool for clothing in the mountainous regions of South-West Asia. Their cultures are older than Christianity and thousands of years older than Islam created in the 600s.  Thousands of years before Turks and Arabs came to South West Asia (north of the Arabian Peninsula), these peoples lived in peace and traded with their neighbors.  Among the 85 million ‘citizens’ of Erdogan, tens of millions of Kurds are ruled.  Kurds outside Turkish territory are also targeted by Erdogan’s armies periodically with the tacit assistance of the ‘West.’   (Up to now, the Kurds of Iraq and Iran are too far away to be slaughtered.)
3. The most forgotten fact of the history of WWI and the Treaty of Versailles involves Woodrow Wilson’s USA. An unfulfilled requirement – had the USA had it not turned to Isolationism – would have placed two of the former Ottoman territories under a League of Nations American Mandate starting in 1919 –Istanbul would have been restored as Constantinople and  Christian Armenia would be free.  All international shipping would permanently have free access between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.