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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
I doubt the Iraqi military would be any match for that of Turkey but the possible scenario of a NATO member coming into conflict with an 'ally' of the west does intrigue me.
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This conflict already is reality.
Its really important, impo, to get a Kurdish state up and running. As a buffer zone that contains Turkey from all its neighbours in the South.
I call Turkey an enemy of the West. What it does under the cover of and in the name of NATO, oversteps the boundary to treason. And it already fights "allies" of the West, by firepower. In Syria. In Iraq. Plus logistical, intel and financial support for such enemies in other countries.
It damages NATO's credibility that Wahsington and others still accept Turkey to be member of NATO. Turkey is a viper within NATO'S living and sleeping room. And nobody cares, shrugs shoulders, and says "Bosporus" as an excuse. I do not buy that Bosporus argument anymore. The threat by Turkey is much greater than the gains of having diplomatic control (more it is not!) over the Bosporus.
Already 10+ years ago I warned bitterly of Erdoghan, and most people just laughed. Today nobody laughs anymkore. Some more years, and I am certain many people will have come to their minds over this issue as well, and then share my reasoning once again. Erdoghan is a highly destabilizing and very dangerous threat factor to keeping the powederkeg that the ME is under any kind of desperate "control". IMO, he really is mentally ill, a narcissist with religious messiah-syndrome and megalomaniac self-perception, in life revealing the personality of a strict, brutal psychopathic personality structure. What he does to Turkey and how he does it, functionally reminds very strongly of the Nazi movement after it got out of the starting block in Germany. Erdoghan poses in similiar fashion like Hitler did. His argumentation is functionally comparable, his sense of mission, the means by which he takes control and widens his powers.
Its only a question of time until even blue-eyed Washington realise that they have lost control of Erdoghan. And I predict that much of what the West wants to prevent in the ME, will come true nevertheless - because of Erdoghan.