Originally Posted by
Kathianne
Turkey no longer belongs in NATO, if it ever did.
Turkey is strategically useful to NATO. Especially during the Cold War when surveillance was done with a BIG radio antenna. AWCS made the listening posts that close to the Soviets obsolete. We still have Incirlik AS with nukes a rock's throw from Russia.
Rather, let's say that piece of land the Turks currently occupy has been strategic gold since antiquity.
Politically, Turkey is out for Turkey's best interest only. They are just enough not a pain in the ass that their value outweighs the reason to dump them. For all his bluster, Erdogan isn't that big a fool. Leaving NATO leaves him on the doorstep of a Russian who is working on invading his second neighboring country at the moment.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke