Added: Feb 21, 2012

From: benzion888

Duration: 11:3

Turkey and Russia agreed on a $20 billion project where Russia will build and own a controlling stake in Turkey's first nuclear power plant. Additionally, they spoke of greater cooperation on a number of fronts. Analysts noted that one motivator behind the deal is for the limitation of Turkey as an alternative source for European energy needs. Indeed, this fits the pattern of Russian energy moves across Europe and their providers. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Turkish president Abdullah Gul also professed their alignment on Middle East foreign policy. To quote Mr. Gul: "We were pleased to note common vision on regional and international issues"... "We have agreed to work together to solve regional problems through dialogue." Medvedev, for his part called on all nations to increase their involvement in the Middle East process or risk even greater "catastrophe."The Turks may be feeling like they have a common vision when it comes to regional and international issues, but scripture and history tell us differentlyJust one example of this obsession was evident during WW I, when the Russians, British, and French were discussing how the Ottoman Empire would be divvied up after the war. Here is an excerpt from a letter from the Russian Foreign Minister to the French and British ambassadors in 1915: "The course of recent events leads His Majesty Emperor Nicholas to think that the question of Constantinople and of the Straits must be definitely solved, according to the time-honoured aspirations of Russia... Every solution will be inadequate and precarious if the city of Constantinople, the western bank of the Bosphorus, of the Sea of Marmara and of the Dardanelles, as well as southern Thrace to the Enez-Midye line, should henceforth not be incorporated into the Russian Empire."As it happened, the 1917 revolution in Russia prevented the agreement from coming to fruition. Have these aspirations changed in less than 100 years? They have not, despite assurances of peace and "alignment

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Tags: russia  turkey  common vision  bible prophecy  crimean war  history  prophecy  anatolia  ottoman empire  moscow  bible  news 

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