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Really?
“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…
🤔
How did we get here?
The Ottomans shouldn’t be in NATO to begin with.
He went to the White House last week.
So if that's the case, then the Syrian Strongman is a realist but time will tell.
It usually backfires when the CIA intervenes in a foreign country.
In Iran we backed the Shah only to have him overthrown by Islamic Fundamentalists decades later.
Turkey needs to get out of Cyprus.
The current head of Syria is ISIS. He was invited to the White House. Strange times.
Turkey is critical to ‘peace’ in the region President Trump friends with President Erdogan.
Tom Barrack Ambassador for the POTUS and old buddy of Jeffrey Who?
Turkey is critical to ‘peace’ in the region President Trump friends with President Erdogan.
Tom Barrack Ambassador for the POTUS and old buddy of Jeffrey Who?
When the Soviet Union existed they were the only NATO country that actually shared a border with same and Turkey's location provided great opportunities for listening posts etc as well as missiles. Incirlik was / is a great location for an air base. But Erdogan has been increasingly taking Turkey away from NATO.... There is no current rationale for its continuing membership.
[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…
🤔]
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.
Turkey was in it to weaken Russia, so as to facilitate the new Ottoman Empire.
Everyone here is right.
What a cluster.
The Ottomans are the real “Settler Colonialists”. Istanbul should be Constantinople again.
Eventually Turkey and Russia will be allies, the question is who will be the lead dog?
Until Carter switched that backing to Khomeini and the islamists.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been spoiling for an open conflict with Israel ever since he has risen to power in Turkey. A very uncertain friend of the West, he really has in mind the restoration of the Ottoman Empire. He just could never make himself an ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran in any way, shape, form, or manner.
The enemy of my enemy can very well also be an enemy. This is the Middle East. Jealousies and blind prejudice run deep.
I guess that's one way to put it.
We put the guy into office. We didn't like who the Iranian people actually elected (because he became hostile to British oil interests), so the CIA and MI6 instigated a coup that removed the elected official; we then put our puppet into place.
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