The world is about to witness a NATO nation being shown the exit door.
The world is about to witness a NATO nation being shown the exit door.
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That would be great for us as well as for Europe. Unfortunately, I don’t think it likely. We should definitely get the forwardly deployed nukes out now however.
Looks to me like PDJT is hitting the Turks with the same thing he used on the Norks and the Mexicans, plus a big dose of tariffs. The Turks thought they could get away with this crap with our other presidents, but not this one.
PDJT looks to be the first President since Renaldus Magnus genuinely to respect the lives of our troops. I served in the Army on active duty in 1968 and 1969. One of my responsibilities was to function as a Survivors’ Assistance Officer where I’d go the survivors of a soldier within 24 hours of when they were informed of his death and help them through the whole process, including attending the decedent’s funeral. It was hell on the survivors and damn wrenching for me. PDJT clearly understands this on the direct, personal level far better than most of his predecessors, and the politicians who’re attacking him, and is determined to prevent as many of these tragedies as possible while still protecting our national security.
So far he’s been hugely creative and successful beyond belief. We must all stand back, have some well deserved confidence in him, and let him do it with Syria, Turkey, and the Kurds.
There is no process in the NATO charter to expel a member. Which is another reason we should not be in NATO any longer.
Yes. They never should have been in. Turkey’s one reason for being in NATO was to cut off the Soviets from access to the Med. That’s not needed now.
Exit door?
Won’t happen before we fully repossess those B61 nukes I understand are still at Incirlik.
Why hasn’t that been done?
Turkey has definitely NOT been a reliable ally or contributing member to Nato for at least two or three decades now and it would be nice to jettison them. But turkey does sit in a geographically strategic region, and it would be better to bring them back into the western fold than to have them become strong Russian allies, if they can walk back from the radical Islamic tilt of late. That’s a big ‘if’.