It’s about time.
Why we put nukes into a muz country is baffling to me.
Base has lost its importance over the years. Turkey was a NATO ally which gave the base stability. Now Turkey has shown its membership to be questionable. It is time to move out.
b/c they were anti communist when the USSR was actively threatening both Europe and the Med.
We should pull out of there, and it would absolutely be a tragedy if one of our nukes fell on Ankara as we departed.
I suspect we will more to Jordan. Just a hunch.
JoMa
Turkey straddles Europe and Asia, and had a particularly important role for NATO because the Soviet ports in the Black Sea were only accessible through Turkey via the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits.
“Why we put nukes into a muz country is baffling to me.”
Worse than that, trying to transfer the weapons, over 50, from Incirlik is going to be a diplomatic and paperwork nightmare that is going to take a long time to get accomplished.. Both the Non-Aligned Movement and critics within NATO believe that NATO’s nuclear sharing violates Articles I and II of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which prohibit the transfer and the acceptance of direct or indirect control, respectively, over nuclear weapons. The United States insists that its forces control the weapons and that no transfer of the nuclear bombs or control over them is intended “unless and until a decision were made to go to war, at which the NPT would no longer be controlling”, so there is no breach of the NPT. And all the nations that wish will determine the movement as a precursor to war and fall into a defensive position....China, Russia, North Korea....long list. And it won’t make any difference as when the treaty was established in the 1960’s, there was mistrust then also. So now it’s going to be a diplomatic, I hope only, nightmare. Get ready for everyone to do a buildup on borders even worse than it is now....everyone’s.
rwood
Why we put nukes into a muz country is baffling to me.
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At the time turkey was a secular muslim country with the emphasis on secular, but they always found a way to screw things up for us militarily by finding some regulation of new law than stopped something we needed in the cold war from happening.