A friend posted this link on Facebook, stating it was a shame, if it did, indeed, happen.
He at least was cynical enough to realize there was a good chance this was not real.
The question, therefore, is “Real or No Real?”
Let’s take a look:
Turkish Downing Of US Marine Helicopters Killing 12 American Soldiers Stuns Russia
[Editor’s note: “Turkish” Turkey did not fire on American helicopters. This would have been front page news in the US and I can’t find even one trace of it. “Stuns Russia”? Why would a news organization, supposedly representing the EU, report on Russian feelings when Russia is not in the least involved. “Stuns Russia” is a glaring indicator as to the origins of this disinformation appearing as an Active Measure.]
Mindless propagation of idiocy
In addition to the raging xenophobia, the European Union Times strays deeply into tinfoil hat territory. For example, it regularly re-publishes the hilarious “reports” of “Sorcha Faal“, which means that it is either subscribed (i.e., paying) for the Sorcha Faal feed, or close to the original source. If you see a headline that is really “out there” (for example, US Earthquake Weapon Test Fails Again, Destroys New Zealand City[9]), scroll to the bottom and have a look at the “Source” link. If it points to whatdoesitmean.com, it’s the handwork of “Sorcha”. (That article also contains a massive research fail — it quotes the Russian Space Forces command (VKS) as its source, but the link “VKS” leads to the site of a Russian industrial company, VKS.ru!) The EUTimes has also re-published material from Pravda Online, another site dedicated to conspiracy theories, such as a 2010 article about alien spaceships attacking Earth in 2012.[10] It’s unclear if they actually believe this stuff or they just think that their readers are gullible morons. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/European_Union_Times]
A grim Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials were “stunned” last week after a Turkish Air Force fighter jet operating within its own airspace fired upon and downed two CH-53 Sea Stallion helicoptersbeing flown by the US Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) over Kurdish held territory in the eastern Syrian “department” of the Levant War Zone killing all 12 of the American military troops on board.
[Editor’s note: if the Russian Security Council, as noted in the embedded link, circulated a report, why does it not appear in the http://www.rg.ru/, the official Russian news site? The site posted a story on the crash of a US fighter jet and a Ukrainian helicopter… No reports of a US helicopter in Kurdish territory appears in any US news report, or in any foreign news site or even rg.ru… Funny, every, I repeat EVERY fact looks exactly like the 12 Marines killed in Hawaii and definitely not by the Turkish Air Force. This appears to be a blatant attempt to smear the Turks, place blame on the Turks and to drive a wedge between the US and Turkey.]
According to this report, on 14 January, these two MARSOC helicopters departed from Ayn al-Asad Airbase in Iraq for a “normal/routine” re-supply mission of US Marine and British Special Forces troops currently embedded with Kurdish Peoples Protection Unit (YPG) fighters battling Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) terrorists near the Turkish border in north eastern Syria near the city of Raqqa when this “war crime” occurred.
[Editor’s note: In my best Hungul (Korean), Bullshit-i-da.]
Immediately upon Federation Aerospace Forces detecting this Turkish “unprovoked” attack upon these two MARSOC helicopters, this report continues, Russian commanders notified the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar advising the American’s of their willingness to assist in search and rescues missions, but which the US commanders stated they did not need as their own TRAP forces (tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel) had already been alerted.
[Editor’s note: Mix in enough facts and somebody is bound to fall for this fable.]
Most outlandishly, this report notes, is that within 5 hours of Turkey shooting down these two MARSOC helicopters in Syria, Aerospace Forces satellites monitoring the Pacific Ocean region detected what they believed at the time to be an unannounced test of a US Navy RIM-8 Talos missile in the waters surrounding the Hawaii Islands—but which within two hours of its firing and exploding the US Navy announced two of its CH-53 helicopters had “crashed”, and just yesterday announced they had ceased attempting to find either these aircraft or its crew members.
[Editor’s note: now Russia is attempting to make us believe the Hawaii crash was a cover-up, a typical Russian attempt to divert attention.]
As to why the Obama regime would deliberately conceal from the American people this “deliberate war crime”, this report explains, is due to their fears of what the reactions of their citizens would be upon learning that these 12 brave US Marines were killed by their own NATO ally Turkey—who at the exact same time the US is fighting with and assisting the Kurdish peoples in fighting Islamic State terrorists, Turkey is doing everything it can to destroy them.
[Editor’s note: A conspiracy theory has now emerged, with the accusation that the “Obama regime would deliberately conceal from the American people this “deliberate war crime”.]
So bitter have relations deteriorated between the Obama regime and Turkey over America’s support for the Kurdish peoples, this report notes, Turkish officials even openly warned the American’s again yesterday that they won’t even tolerate the inclusion of Kurdish groups at the upcoming peace talks aimed at ending the war in Syria—with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu bluntly telling the US: “We will never accept that YPG is being seen as a legitimate power on the opposition side. We will never allow this to happen because it is a direct threat to Turkey.”
[Editor’s note: this too obvious attempt to drive a wedge between NATO allies is pathetic.]
Upon the Security Councils reviewing the MoD information relating to Turkey’s downing of these MARSOC helicopters, and its threat to further destabilize the Levant War Zone, this report concludes, it issued a warning a few hours ago stating that the activities by foreign Special Forces are now one of the main threats to Russia’s security.
[Editor’s note: a threat to Russia’s security gives Russia an excuse to fire on Turkish planes or any other otherwise provocative action they so choose. A weak excuse that even a four year old can probably detect.]
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