NATO is headed for a very messy break-up

[Disir]

IF YOU’RE AN American citizen, cancel plans for that vacation in Turkey. Don’t invite your Turkish friends to the United States, either. Recently Turkey and the United States stopped issuing visas to each other’s citizens. This is more than just another travel ban. It is a geopolitical spectacle unique in modern history: two allied countries blocking normal back-and-forth travel. An old relationship has gone deeply sour.

It’s hard to imagine that Americans will be forbidden for years to visit Topkapi Palace, or that the Grand Canyon will remain off limits to Turks. Indeed, limited visa processing resumed Monday. But, even if the visa standoff is fully resolved the breach it symbolizes will not quickly heal. Turkey has been member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — making it a military ally of the United States — for 65 years. Officially it still is. The reality is different. Turkey has written itself out of the Western alliance. Rather than accept decisions made in Washington and at NATO headquarters in Brussels, it now behaves like a Middle Eastern country pursuing its own interests. Turkey has become the first NATO dropout.

It may not be the last.
NATO is headed for a very messy break-up - The Boston Globe

The above is an op-ed but it is rather interesting. Frankly, it should not surprise anyone Turkey is pretty much giving everyone the finger.

 

[irosie91]

Erdogan has been bitten by the ISLAMIST RAT. anyone who is surprised is---------stoopid

 

[rightwinger]

Turkey has always moved between the east and the west

We will have to see where they settle

 

[irosie91]

Turkey has always moved between the east and the west

We will have to see where they settle

as far as I understand, Germany wishes they would land
on Jupiter

 

[MisterBeale]

The western establishment and globalist rats are all criminals anyway.

Turkey is probably better off controlling their own borders. Europe probably would only have two thirds the refugee problem it has now if Turkey left.

 

[irosie91]

The western establishment and globalist rats are all criminals anyway.

Turkey is probably better off controlling their own borders. Europe probably would only have two thirds the refugee problem it has now if Turkey left.

Turkey BETTER OFF? nope
Europe BETTER OFF? yup

Turkish population of Germany <<<< in danger of
expulsion by hatred

 

[Correll]

The western establishment and globalist rats are all criminals anyway.

Turkey is probably better off controlling their own borders. Europe probably would only have two thirds the refugee problem it has now if Turkey left.

Turkey BETTER OFF? nope
Europe BETTER OFF? yup

Turkish population of Germany <<<< in danger of
expulsion by hatred

"hatred"? LOL!!!

 

[irosie91]

The western establishment and globalist rats are all criminals anyway.

Turkey is probably better off controlling their own borders. Europe probably would only have two thirds the refugee problem it has now if Turkey left.

Turkey BETTER OFF? nope
Europe BETTER OFF? yup

Turkish population of Germany <<<< in danger of
expulsion by hatred

"hatred"? LOL!!!

yes---------both love and hatred MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND

 

[Correll]

The western establishment and globalist rats are all criminals anyway.

Turkey is probably better off controlling their own borders. Europe probably would only have two thirds the refugee problem it has now if Turkey left.

Turkey BETTER OFF? nope
Europe BETTER OFF? yup

Turkish population of Germany <<<< in danger of
expulsion by hatred

"hatred"? LOL!!!

yes---------both love and hatred MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND

Deporting hostile aliens that at best are dead weigh to your nation, if not an active danger, is not hatred.


It is being a grown up.

 

[depotoo]

Well said.

Erdogan has been bitten by the ISLAMIST RAT. anyone who is surprised is---------stoopid

 

[rightwinger]

Turkey has always been hit or miss as regarding their membership in NATO
NATO can get along without them but they could use some of the strategic bases in Turkey

 

[Disir]

I would have told the EU to get bent 10 years ago. In fact, this carrot in front of the donkey game is (to a degree) responsible for Erdogan closing Turkey off. Don't get me wrong. Erdogan is horrible but why try.

 

[xyz]

I'm not sure about Hungary and NATO either.

 

[MisterBeale]

When the EU showed it's hypocrisy on Scotland vs. Catalonia issue, my sympathies on EU politics and NATO became crystal clear. Let their globalist house of cards fall IMO.

Beyond Catalonia: pro-independence movements in Europe

 

[Meathead]

IF YOU’RE AN American citizen, cancel plans for that vacation in Turkey. Don’t invite your Turkish friends to the United States, either. Recently Turkey and the United States stopped issuing visas to each other’s citizens. This is more than just another travel ban. It is a geopolitical spectacle unique in modern history: two allied countries blocking normal back-and-forth travel. An old relationship has gone deeply sour.

It’s hard to imagine that Americans will be forbidden for years to visit Topkapi Palace, or that the Grand Canyon will remain off limits to Turks. Indeed, limited visa processing resumed Monday. But, even if the visa standoff is fully resolved the breach it symbolizes will not quickly heal. Turkey has been member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — making it a military ally of the United States — for 65 years. Officially it still is. The reality is different. Turkey has written itself out of the Western alliance. Rather than accept decisions made in Washington and at NATO headquarters in Brussels, it now behaves like a Middle Eastern country pursuing its own interests. Turkey has become the first NATO dropout.

It may not be the last.
NATO is headed for a very messy break-up - The Boston Globe

The above is an op-ed but it is rather interesting. Frankly, it should not surprise anyone Turkey is pretty much giving everyone the finger.

Turkey's problem is that it has no friends. The American tourist industry can fair well without to Turkish Lira. I'm no sure at all how Turkey will do without the Americans' dollars.