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2014-02-13 Europe

Surreal News Du Jour: Spain, Turkey To Jointly Build An Aircraft Carrier

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 In the Third Millennium, we have reached a point where it is no longer possible to distinguish between news of the day and the latest from The Onion. I am not sure what this portends for humanity, but I suspect we are boned.

Posted by SteveS 2014-02-13 00:32|| 2014-02-13 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 See also GROONG > TURKEY'S PROPOSED AIRCRAFT CARRIER COULD ALTER THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN.

* WAFF > TURKEY TO CONTROL THE MANAGEMENT OF [post-UKRAINE] CRIMEAN PENINSULA | [Hurriyet News] IFF UKRAINE FRAGMENTS [breaks up], TURKEY HAS RIGHT TO CRIMEA.

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* GROONG > TURKOLOGIST: KURDISH AUTONOMY [State] IN SYRIA, TURKEY IS PAYING THE PRICE FOR PM ERDOGAN'S [Geopol = "Great Power"] ADVENTURISM.

D *** NG IT, TURKEY = IRAN + PAKISTAN [Saudis? Egypt?] AREN' THE ONLY ONE(S) WHOM ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ISLAMIC SUPERPOWERS [Nuclear]!?

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > FROM "EUROPE'S BRIC" [+ 'Next Superpower"], TURKEY BECOMING ANOTHER "SICK MAN OF THE MIDDLE EAST" [again = "Sick Man of Europe"?] | TURKISH FINANCIAL CRISIS ADDS TO REGION'S CHAOS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-02-13 01:37|| 2014-02-13 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 will take 5 years and about $1B to build (not counting bribes and similar fees)

Posted by lord garth 2014-02-13 05:31|| 2014-02-13 05:31|| Front Page Top

#4 If it functions along the lines of the recent Spanish submarine debacle, all I say is I hope somebody video's this.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-02-13 07:12|| 2014-02-13 07:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't we have some in wet storage we could sell them? Oh yeah, it was just hauled off for scrap!

Posted by Skidmark 2014-02-13 11:30|| 2014-02-13 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 They should name it after the last ruler they shared: Justinian.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-02-13 11:49|| 2014-02-13 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Is this Med Union stuff? Who woke up with the idea?

Can't wait to see the video: 'Ere, hold my Sangria.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-02-13 11:56|| 2014-02-13 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't we have some in wet storage we could sell them? Oh yeah, it was just hauled off for scrap!

The term used is "mothballs" but yes, yer correct.

Posted by Pappy 2014-02-13 12:35|| 2014-02-13 12:35|| Front Page Top

#9 It's evidently a short-legged LPH. Nothing to sneeze at tho. But yikes, that's a lot of money.

Posted by Shipman 2014-02-13 17:36|| 2014-02-13 17:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually Pappy, the Forrestal was recently hauled off for scrap, after the USN paid a penny to the salvage company to take it away. pretty sad thing, it could have had a second life as John McCain's Senatorial Library, complete with replica Skyhawks.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-02-13 23:03|| 2014-02-13 23:03|| Front Page Top

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