NATO's purulent, poisonous wound in its south-eastern flank

Bilge_Rat · 07-02-20, 10:31 AM

what is the old saying? Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Turkey is a handful, but it is easier to maintain some influence on its behavior if it is in NATO rather than out of it.

Skybird · 07-02-20, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

what is the old saying? Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Turkey is a handful, but it is easier to maintain some influence on its behavior if it is in NATO rather than out of it.

Is it? The past years tell me the opposite.

August · 07-02-20, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

what is the old saying? Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Turkey is a handful, but it is easier to maintain some influence on its behavior if it is in NATO rather than out of it.

That's pretty much the same thinking that got West Germany into NATO.

07-02-20, 10:31 AM	#1
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