US nuclear weapons are now being held as ‘essentially Erdogan’s hostages’ in Turkey: report

https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/u-s-nuclear-weapons-are-now-being-held-as-essentially-erdogans-hostages-in-turkey-report/

"And over the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, about 250 miles from the Syrian border, according to two American officials.
Those weapons, one senior official said, were now essentially Erdogan’s hostages. To fly them out of Incirlik would be to mark the de facto end of the Turkish-American alliance. To keep them there, though, is to perpetuate a nuclear vulnerability that should have been eliminated years ago. 

“I think this is a first — a country with U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at US forces,” Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies wrote last week."

My Comment: Drumpf is going to get us all killed or held hostage to 50 gd American nuclear weapons held in Turkey. Drumpf the blowhard talks smack about how he is going to rain down stiff sanctions on Turkey for their blasting away our former ally and helper in defeating ISIS. I will believe those sanctions when I see them. In the meantime a nation with American nukes is shooting at US forces.  What could possibly go wrong?  All this to appease Drumpf's buddy Putin and to appease his other authoritarian friend Erdogan so Turkey can finally annihilate their perpetual perceived enemy US ally the Kurds and gain a foothold in Syria.  War crimes are being committed as I write this and Trump is the useful idiot helping Tyrants!  If Drumpf were not the so called president he would be in jail!