In a Dec. 2nd interview, Senator Richard Black told RT that Turkey is the most loyal ally that ISIS has, and has developed a war trade with ISIS that is very important to them. Dramatically referring to a map of the area of his own construction, he indicated that the main supply line for ISIS can be seen coming through a gap in the Turkish-Syrian border, then going directly to Raqqah — which he termed the capitol of ISIS — and then on into Iraq. The Russians, he said, attacked this supply line for the first time, while the United States and its coalition somehow failed to target this tremendous train of oil tankers. The Russian destruction of at least 500 oil tankers in a single day very much angered the Turks, because they have made an enormous profit on each shipment, and use the line to direct diesel and gasoline to ISIS forces in Raqqah and then on into Iraq.

Again using his map, Black pointed to the area of the Turkish-Syrian border occupied by the Kurds, whose offensive threatened to seal the border with Turkey, again disrupting the war trade. Turkey rushed to the Coalition for a de facto “no fly zone” and then then launched 300 airstrikes supposedly against ISIS — but 297 of these strikes were actually against our Kurdish allies. In this way they secured this area for ISIS and for the war trade.

Asked about the downing of the Russian jet, Senator Black indicated that Turkey also maintains a supply line to Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda affiliates.  The Russian jet was operating in this strategic area and was clearly ambushed by Turkey. He supported his argument by pointing to the fact that Russia had shared with the U.S., as head of the Coalition, the flight data which indicated where the jet was going to go, and yet we are somehow supposed to believe that this was not transmitted to the Turks. There was no excuse for the downing of the jet, he concluded; it was an act of aggression.