[Leaning Right]

“Moreover, Turkey is a member of NATO and has one of the group’s more potent militaries.”

That puts an interesting spin on things. NATO is under no obligation to come to a member’s aid if that member starts a war.

But in the very, very unlikely event that Israel strikes Turkey first…

🤔

[Frank Drebin]

The Ottomans shouldn’t be in NATO to begin with.

[Zhang Fei]

[That puts an interesting spin on things. NATO is under no obligation to come to a member’s aid if that member starts a war.

But in the very, very unlikely event that Israel strikes Turkey first…

🤔]

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IIRC, the obligation is to consult. The treaty’s not a light switch. Even in Afghanistan, NATO contributed, at the peak, 1/3, most in support rather than combat roles. And with Afghanistan, the trigger was 9/11, an obvious outrage.

If the US had done a 9/11 on Afghanistan, and the Afghans struck back with a similar atrocity, it’s unclear that NATO would have shown up for the war. It certainly never did for Europe’s colonial wars, and was absent, under the NATO flag, in both Korea and Vietnam.