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Britain has developed missiles that can reach Paris, says King Charles . .

Britain has developed missiles that can reach Paris, says King Charles . .

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Wait . . what? It's NOT Britain and France? It's Turkey trolling Greece? Two entirely different NATO members? Well . . . this changes everything. Nobody cares what bull$hit nations like Turkey say, right?

Actually, we SHOULD care. Turkey is a pariah among NATO members. Both Turkey and Greece were admitted to NATO 70 years ago, and have been bitch-slapping each other ever since. Turkey, you may recall, has been upping the ante recently by purchasing Russian weapons (good luck – they aren't working against Ukraine). WTF, though!!! How can you be a member of a defense pact whose STATED MISSION is deterrence of Russia, and be paying Putin billions for weapons incompatible with other NATO members?

I put this squarely on 'President Tayyip Erdogan”, who has been some combination of prime minister and/or president of Turkey since 2003. He not only fully embraces Russia, he's trying to implement an Islamic state (complete with scarf police); wipe out the Kurds. Boost Palestinian terrorists. Abduction and assassination attempts on Turkish expats living in the USA. And now . .. threatening a first strike against Greece?

Everyone wants to go to Greece at some point. Athens. The Parthenon. Those idyllic Mediterranean islands. Few rational people have a second honeymoon in Istanbul on their bucket list.

President Erdogan's stated reason for building ICBMs capable of reaching Athens? The Greek government “has too many troops in areas close to the Turkish border”. Yep – he actually said that. Remember, we're talking two NATO nations here. And countries about the size of Ohio.

Personally, I don't see either of them being worth much in the event NATO ever has to go into combat. In fact, Turkish leaks of confidential NATO documents are probably the reason why Putin “knew” that NATO would not defend Ukraine.

Kick Turkey out of NATO, President Biden. Don't convene a committee . . . you ARE the committee. Stop dicking around with WNBA basketball players and Musk-snarking. Turkey is a dictatorship and adds zero value to NATO.

Go see the film “Midnight Express” in case you missed it the first time around. These are our effing ALLIES? Get real . . .
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He is continually breaching article 5 ,even the UN has stated their support for Greece amongst other european countries ,the continually evades aerospace that is not his ,i am talking about hundreds of breaches daily ,and yes he was given weapons from Russia ,he sent hundreds of immigrants to europe during the start of the pandemic and lockdowns ,especially greece who is economically vulnerable and unrest is high,using them as peons to further weaken both greece and western relations ,even if it puts their lives on risk, do not forget about the attempted coup from his military towards him and his regime in 2016 or the lira crisis turkey is experiencing while he continues to enjoy his laundered wealth .
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@PepsiColaP this is a classic "wag the dog" situation - an irresolute and unpopular leader trying leverage public opinion among his least educated supporters against some external threat.

"Greece is going to attack us. LIke they did 3,000 years ago!"
@PepsiColaP
Its my belief that the US intervened to stop the coup.. and it was a mistake..
Coup leaders were minutes away from shooting down his jet but they were told to stand down..
Another mistake we've been forced to live with ever since..
At the time, elements of the Turkish army had nearly surrounded Incirlik air base.. whether they were loyalists or part of the coup hasn't been disclosed.
Threats against our nuclear stockpile there may have influenced us to withdraw support for the coup attempt.
basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M
@SusanInFlorida hyperbole, I know, but while Greeks have existed as a people for 3000 years ago, Turks didn't even leave Central Asia until around 1060 A.D to colonise Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire.
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@basilfawlty89 and look how well they're doing! just goes to show a little genocide and religious intolerance can go a long way