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2019-11-14 International-UN-NGOs

Wretchard: Due to a quirk in the NATO charter you can't expel Turkey without its consent.

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Posted by 3dc 2019-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Well, then why doesn't the US and others who oppose Turkey leaven and let it keep whoever is faithless enough to stay? Which would probably be nobody considering that the Nordic countries want to stay allies with the US and Germany would prefer to pretend it doesn't have a military (and France isn't a member).

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-11-14 00:31|| 2019-11-14 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 This is bullshit. America can just leave it and it's dead. Good luck having a EUTO. You can form military alliances as and when conflicts arise. No sense in paying for the military posturing of nations opposed to your policies all the damn time.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-14 01:33|| 2019-11-14 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 EUNUCH:
European Union Nonbinding & Useless Coalition of the Helpless

Posted by Lex 2019-11-14 07:35|| 2019-11-14 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 In that line - dissolve the sucker. It's reason to exists fell with the Berlin Wall. Let Brussels defend itself.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-14 08:27|| 2019-11-14 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Disband NATO. Should have been done some 20 years ago.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-11-14 11:07|| 2019-11-14 11:07|| Front Page Top

#6 30 years ago

Posted by chris 2019-11-14 11:26|| 2019-11-14 11:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I think it's between 20 and 30 years ago. There was a very, very good reason to keep it until the Soviet Union completed its dissolution,even if they weren't as large a threat as people thought. But by Clinton's second term, we should have gotten out of there.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-11-14 12:33|| 2019-11-14 12:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, then why doesn't the US and others who oppose Turkey leave

There is legal precedent for this under the "I Wouldn't Want To Belong To Any Club That Would Have Me As A Member" doctrine.

Posted by SteveS 2019-11-14 12:52|| 2019-11-14 12:52|| Front Page Top

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