N love lost here. I hated that place and the people in it. I've never seen a place where backstabbing and being two-faced was a common virtue like there.
The Ottoman's backed Germany in WWI and managed to bail out on them before the war ended, As it was the lost the whole Middle East except for Turkey. In WWII they side a mutual assistance treaty with Britain and France, then turned around and signed a non-aggression pact with Russia and Nazi Germany. Then sat out the war while it was held all around them.
During the Cold War they let us have bases in Turkey, but treated us with contempt, as they are doing now. They're arrogant f*cks who think because no one's kicked their ass lately it can't be done.
I think it's funny as Hell they went after the Kurds in Syria under Russian air cover but when they pushed to far Russia backed Assad. Turkey thought they were going to get a free piece of land out of Syria's civil war and played the fools thinking Russia was going to let them. Russia has backed Syria as far back as I can remember.
Russia HAD to choose a side or fight on both sides of the same war. Knew that wasn't going to happen.
Watch. Turkey will run back to the US through NATO and our dumbass politicians will play nice.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke