Imagine having a “peaceful progressive global alliance against the evil tyranny of Russia”… and your organization is then routinely gatekept and systematically extorted by an abusive and backwards Muslim nation. Such a thing might almost shred your credibility on the world stage - if you had any up start.
It would be nice, but Turkey is just trying to blackmail them into cracking down on Kurdish rebels/terrorists and lifting sanctions against Turkey that it claims they have.
Just saying that Turkey is not doing this out of altruism or to save the world or what have you. Nothing in world politics ever is, but this is more blatant than usual.
Imagine having a “peaceful progressive global alliance against the evil tyranny of Russia”… and your organization is then routinely gatekept and systematically extorted by an abusive and backwards Muslim nation. Such a thing might almost shred your credibility on the world stage - if you had any up start.
Turkey really doesn’t belong in NATO.
Make Byzantium Great Again.
It would be nice, but Turkey is just trying to blackmail them into cracking down on Kurdish rebels/terrorists and lifting sanctions against Turkey that it claims they have.
Just saying that Turkey is not doing this out of altruism or to save the world or what have you. Nothing in world politics ever is, but this is more blatant than usual.
Turkey is known as a backstabber. I do wonder if they will finally choose the subpar su-57.