Posted on 12/22/2019 6:49:04 AM PST by Kaslin
In response to the U.S. Senate recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to close two military bases (one American and one NATO) on its soil. This led U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper to openly question Turkeys commitment to NATO. Two days later, The Telegraph broke a story that Hamas uses Turkeys territory to plot attacks on Israel, which included plans to assassinate the then-mayor of Jerusalem and the chief of police, as well as a well-known advocate of Jews rights to pray on the Temple Mount. These two developments are part of a larger pattern of behavior where Turkey consistently acts against the strategic interest of NATO. Given this behavior, NATO should expel Turkey from its membership, as Senator Lindsay Graham and Frances EU-affairs minister recently suggested.
First, NATO should expel Turkey because the latters strategic partnerships directly oppose the security of NATO and its allies. Turkeys problematic partnerships and actions include:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ummm.
No.
NATO should have expelled Turkey after the invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and any drivel written about NATO and Turkey which doesn’t mention this issue within the first few paragraphs is either mindless propaganda or so poorly researched as to be worthless.
In either of the only two possible cases this isn’t worth reading really.
And this is why. What US secrets is raggedy spilling to Erdogan?
Turkey/ Islam is antithethical to the spine of the NATO nations.
Back in the day, a Turkey partnership was needed. The Soviet Union was just across the Black Sea, and Turkey was important in a strategic sense. With the technology today, that is no longer the case. They should have been removed as soon as The current Turkish president was elected and went full-on fascist.
What is the point of NATO at this point? Why should the US be part of it?
I didn’t realize most NATO nations still had spines!
Different time and different needs.
I think the article is good.
Let’s just correct that, because somebody should.
Turkey was needed until the range of our weapons and aircraft was long enough that it wasn’t needed.
Then it was kept for inadequate and inappropriate reasons long after it wasn’t needed.
Why no.
No it isn’t “a different time”
It is still the same times and the Turks still shoot and kill people who manage to get into Varosha.
I don’t know how you twist your thinking so as to make killing people in Cyprus doesn’t matter, but I am not going to agree with you on that.
Yes yes yes. It was A worthwhile experiment but turkeys gone back to its moslem savagery.
Rather than throw Turkey out, NATO should just invite Israel into the alliance. Just prior to this invitation, under cover of darkness, and without prior notice, the NATO nuclear umbrella should be removed from Turkey, so Erdogan would find out just what his value is, and just how strong he is vs his "allies" Vlad the Imploder and the Shiite-head in Iran. Turkey would resign from NATO in an eyeblink, because Erdogan certainly won't prostrate himself to the infidel. I mean, not before we or one of his "allies" shoot him dead and we step over his carcass to shake hands with his successor.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
I was at Incirlik in 1982. I never thought the Turks were our allies.
“NATO should have expelled Turkey after the invasion of Cyprus in 1974”
The world and NATO’s role in it looked a lot different then. I think we need to fold-up NATO now, but then you’ll probably have a dominant Germany. I don’t think Poland, Hungary or any of the East European countries want to see that.
I am quite willing to replace NATO with an organization propping up the States holding the line against Islam.
But scuttling NATO doesn’t make the European problems worse than they now are because it will embolden the Muslims there while there are fewer of them.
And regardless of what you thought about the Iraq invasion at the time, or now, when Turkey wouldnt allow us to stage out of Turkey, it became even more obvious they are not.
Neocon BS. Expel the Germans and the French for not paying their dues and building up their own militaries.
Take back Constantinople
I forgot about that, but you are right.
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