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Even though Turkey is a cultural outlier to NATO it may not be so wise to throw them out. The control the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus straits.

As far as Orban goes he warns that a complete shutoff of Russian energy to Europe could lead to economic disaster. Europe is just behind Japan in terms of debt-to-GDP ratio, so he could be right.


10 posted on 05/17/2022 4:33:27 PM PDT by packagingguy
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Even though Turkey is a cultural outlier to NATO it may not be so wise to throw them out. The control the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus straits.

That's the only reason we even talk about Turkey. It controls Russia's access to the Mediterranean.If it weren't for that, Turkey would be just another corrupt, Mid-Eastern mess.

25 posted on 05/17/2022 6:21:06 PM PDT by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas)
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