• Turkey says it will retaliate if U.S. halts weapons sales
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-defense/turkey-says-will-retaliate-if-u-s-halts-weapons-sales-idUSKBN1I7050?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5aeebbe104d301680e4a8e4b&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook Related to this thread.
By retaliate he means they'll cosy up to Russia. Slightly bad for Nato's strategic position but Nato doesn't really need them any more when most of Russia's former satellite states are now in Nato.
It's not just that. Turkey also serves a gateway to the Middle East (to some extend) and west Asia. Even though no one in NATO really likes them, they're actually quite important, and Turkey knows this.
Wow I guess we better keep selling them guns, wouldn't want them to retaliate.
I thought they were turkey?
Nope, it's disinformation
turkey seems to be taking a lot of notes from the NK camp better cut off their weapons now if they're threatening to retaliate, that's just blackmail
Here's hoping Trump doesn't deliver them weapons. On a plane. Through a bomb-bay.
I just kind of want to see the impotent tantrums from Erdogan now. No way are they getting F-35s.
Now now, there's no need to be unpheasant.
Doesn't Turkey have the second or third largest NATO army, though?
Yes second largest but they seem to have no problem sending cold war era leopard 2's one by one into kurdish and isis mines and anti tank missiles.
They have an election next month, hopefully Erdogan gets voted out and replaced with someone less stupid.
This is not going to happen. Erdogan has virtually become a dictator and has done wonders since the coup a couple years ago to centralize all of his power and silence opposition/those who might be a threat to him, mass arrests, etc. The guy even modeled himself after Hitler or something if I remember in one of his statements, and no one gave a fuck that he said that. It's clear he's here to stay for a long time.
The dude's a dictator in all but name. If he gets voted out he'll just refuse to leave.
Yeah, they'd never resist, because of the implications
But they could resist, right?
yeah but they never would, because of the implications
Sadly not going to happen. I will always be waiting for that moment but before i can see it i might die lul
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