NATO will not go to war over Turkey, as Turkey is a bad actor and everyone knows it. I think this article is full of BS misinformation. I don’t believe Putin wants war. I think he’s worried about the worldwide instability that is the direct result of America’s weakness and he needs to maintain his support at home. I think there are elements in our own government, particularly in the State Dept, that take very personally Putin’s antipathy towards the homosexual movement.
“NATO will not go to war over Turkey, as Turkey is a bad actor and everyone knows it.”
If Turkey is attacked and invokes Article V, they will have to, or NATO will basically dissolve.
“I don’t believe Putin wants war. I think he’s worried about the worldwide instability that is the direct result of America’s weakness and he needs to maintain his support at home.”
Putin doesn’t give a damn about “worldwide instability”. All of his actions are designed to maintain what is left of the Russian sphere of influence and expand it. He has never lifted a finger to help any “unstable” state unless it’s already one of his client/puppet states. In fact, he has intervened several times in “unstable” states in order to attempt coups to take them over and extend Russia’s sphere of influence. At this point in history, he is the most aggressively belligerent leader on the world stage, if we judge by their actions and not just their words.