A tersely worded new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that an elite parachute battalion from the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment under the command of Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) has been ordered to full combat alert status and given 24-hours to begin inter-operability training with special commando forces from the 38th Guards Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus—all of whom will conduct their combat operations with long-range heavy-lift Il-76MD aircraft and Yak-130 fighter protection aircraft designed to insert into combat Mi-8 troop transport and Mi-24 gunship helicopters in wartime conditions—a combat order issued by President Putin under his Article 87 authority as Commander-In-Chief—and whose statement of fact in asserting this wartime authority warns “Turkey may not be able to contain militants from the Islamic State terror group (outlawed in Russia) active in northern Syria while conducting a military operation in the region”—a grave situation Turkey has been placed in by its own North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) who are not only refusing to come to the aid of their ally, calls are now shockingly being made to kick Turkey out of this Western military alliance all together.  […]