Posted on 05/17/2022 7:41:57 PM PDT by FarCenter
Any membership bid to NATO must be unanimously approved by NATO’s 30 members, and Turkey is openly opposed to the enlargement, accusing the two countries of failing to take a clear stance against terrorism.
“We will not say ‘yes’ to those [countries] who apply sanctions to Turkey to join security organization NATO,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late May 16.
Sweden has suspended any arms sales to Turkey since 2019 over Ankara’s military operation in neighboring Syria.
Referring to the Swedish and Finnish delegations’ intentions to meet with Turkish officials, Erdoğan said: “They say they will come to Turkey on Monday. Will they come to persuade us? Excuse us, but they shouldn’t bother.”
Turkey accuses Sweden and Finland of harboring terror groups, including the PKK, blacklisted by Ankara, the European Union and the United States.
“Neither of the countries have a clear stance against terror organizations,” Erdoğan said.
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Rod Blagojevich, Former Governor, Illinois
NATO might just kick Turkey out to get Sweden and Finland in to the organization, or they could form a new subgroup to contain Russia and add Japan and Georgia. The world is changing and Turkey is the old NATO, and not needed for the future.
Lets just invite all the European members of NATO plus Sweden and Finland to a Washington DC summit to create the military alliance League of Democracies. And close down “NATO.”
And tell Islamist Erdogan to F off!
The sick man of Europe can suck it and take a hike. Erdogan can stick it. Turkey is worthless to NATO just as NATO is worthless. Bring the troops home, let the continent pay for its own defense. Enough giving away American blood and money.
Turkey is of strategic importance. They control Russian access to the Mediterranean. Push them too far and they could flip in order to establish “Greater Turkey” with the help of Russia and China.
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(I don’t like them getting any of Bulgaria)
The Turks should NEVER have been allowed into NATO in the first place. Period.
Can’t Turkey please vote America out of NATO please?
I like that idea, and invite Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand...
^5
Hogwash. Sure they control the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, but they are under international law to allow passage. Besides, if they do not, you think Russia would stand for it? Turkey is a problem child; a fine military, geographical importance, but a radical muslim state, all the reasons to isolate it....
Erdoğan doesn’t want Sweden in because he wants Turkey to be the only Islamic country in NATO.
The Bay of Pigs was a big fail for America because we had to get rid of our nukes in Turkey in order for Russia to get rid of their nukes in Cuba.
If Turkey weren't a part of NATO, would we have had nukes there?
Bill Kristol to be first Secretary General.
That would be a useful tactic at this point. When the enemy was a strong and menacing USSR, Turkey was a geopolitical anchor of the Southern end of NATO. But that was last century. If Turkey today is not willing to fulfill its obvious role in the alliance, then cut it loose. We don’t need an unreliable obstructionist weak link in the security of the West, caught up in its own parochial rivalries and outdated issues.
And get the hell out of Cyprus while they're at it!
Who cares. You are talking 60 years ago. It is a different world today.
League of Democracies.
Jens Stoltenberg would make a fine first Secretary General of the League of Democracies.
Cheese eating surrender monkeys from all over the West can form the Society of Putinbitches.
“Turkey is the old NATO, and not needed for the future.”
Russia is waiting with open arms for a new friend that controls critical waterways connecting Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Russia thinks they are needed—for a Russian future.
You do remember that in the 1950s we had nuclear missiles in Turkey?
Putting Turkey in NATO was a no brainer at the time.
(Of course, JFK secretly removed those missiles as part of the deal to get Russian missiles out of Cuba...)
Agreed—it is a different world today.
The Crazy Train in DC is alienating Turkey, Saudi Arabia and India all at the same time—turning friends into enemies.
This is how a Great Power turns itself into a former Great Power.
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