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2023-01-27 The Grand Turk
'We won't die without NATO.' Why Turkey is talking about withdrawing from the alliance
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Posted by badanov 2023-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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Posted by Silentbrick 2023-01-27 01:16||   2023-01-27 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Russian intrigue. Stop them. Turkey is needed by NATO in order to launch a second front. A drive on Moscow needs another axis to be successful.

We only need do this once, and Russia is *over*.
Posted by Fat Bob Thrart2867 2023-01-27 05:37||   2023-01-27 05:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Please, please, please! Be still my heart! I'll help you pack!
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-27 06:24||   2023-01-27 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 How can I miss you if you never leave?
Posted by Frank G 2023-01-27 07:31||   2023-01-27 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The irony is NATO "needed" Turkey in the USSR days, you know, to "fight Communism".

Now, things are arguably worse. We need to pack up our sh!t from Incirlik AB and get out there. Let's 'em go. But then NATO will probably use Article V to defend Greece. Sigh.....
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-01-27 07:53||   2023-01-27 07:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd say move the nukes now in Turkey to Greece just to pi$$ Yippee off, but Greece tends socialist / communist too much for that to be a viable choice.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-27 07:55||   2023-01-27 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Don't forget to pack the light bulbs.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-27 07:57||   2023-01-27 07:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Let the Germans fill the void. Besides, Deutsche Bank owns a lot of Turkish debt, at least they used to.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-01-27 07:58||   2023-01-27 07:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Why stop at leaving Turkey?
Leave Europe entirely. They won't defend themselves, why should we?
Posted by Bill Greans6336 2023-01-27 08:09||   2023-01-27 08:09|| Front Page Top

#10 I've been wishing for that since the demise of the Warsaw Pact. But NATO only got bigger. Go figure.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-01-27 08:31||   2023-01-27 08:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Door. A$$. Bang.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-01-27 09:01||   2023-01-27 09:01|| Front Page Top

#12 "Will no one rid me of this truculent Turk?"
Posted by Mercutio 2023-01-27 09:39||   2023-01-27 09:39|| Front Page Top

#13 The usual suspects will screech "But, we need to engage with them or they will go against us!"

Look how well that worked out with China.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-27 09:41||   2023-01-27 09:41|| Front Page Top

#14 They are not complaining.

[Insert image of "big box" stores.]
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-01-27 11:03||   2023-01-27 11:03|| Front Page Top

#15 I have been advocating kicking the Turks out of NATO, off of Cyprus and moving whatever airplanes we 'need' in the area to the airfields the British built there. Turkey's territorial greed is somewhere between Franco's Spain (restrained) and Mussolini's Italy (well, shall we call it imperialistic?).
Posted by magpie 2023-01-27 11:25||   2023-01-27 11:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Erdogan has been said to have dreams/visions of another Ottoman Empire. His economy is in wretched shape, so I suppose it makes sense for him to align himself/Turkey with Washington's adversaries: China, Iran, and Russia.

I read/heard recently that during that coup attempt some years ago, Erdogan sought refuge in Iran. If so, then surely he'd be willing to repay the Iranians for their assistance that may have saved his life.

P.S. - Thanks to the mod who inserted the Big Box image. I couldn't find it in the Pix area.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-01-27 11:40||   2023-01-27 11:40|| Front Page Top

#17 It makes sense for Turkey to do this if they plan an expansionist foray like Putin. Maybe they are hoping our corresponding rug sanctions will make them high profits.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-27 13:02||   2023-01-27 13:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Ref #16: Private stock, 2014.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-27 13:13||   2023-01-27 13:13|| Front Page Top

#19 Turkey and Iran...made for each other.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-01-27 13:13||   2023-01-27 13:13|| Front Page Top

#20 +1 for telling Turkey to f*&k off. Russia is destroying itself. They don't need our help, and we don't need a radicalized, islamist Turkey.
Posted by Angstrom 2023-01-27 13:59||   2023-01-27 13:59|| Front Page Top

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