Turkey holds #NATO hostage until Syria-related demands are met: Support for its military operations in northern Syria as well as the formal recognition of the Kurdish YPG as a terrorist organization. infobrics.org/post/29868/ via @bricsmedia
NATO is in a state of division and instability with the US, Turkey, and France at odds, providing President Trump with the perfect opportunity to pull out of both NATO and the UN.
Next week NATO will be holding its 70th anniversary summit in London. Turkey is renewing its demand for NATO support for its military operations in northern Syria as well as the formal recognition of the Kurdish YPG as a terrorist organization in exchange for its support.
Without these concessions, Turkey is refusing to back a NATO defense plan for the Baltics and Poland.
Without Turkey’s formal approval NATO will have a difficult time expediting its defense plan for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.
Without Turkey’s formal approval NATO will have a difficult time expediting its defense plan for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.
Not only is Turkey the only Islamic member of NATO but it has the second largest military in NATO granting NATO access to Georgia and Azerbaijan, which makes one wonder, who needs the other more, NATO or Turkey?
Whether it’s defiantly ordering S400’s from Russia, after the United States made multiple threats to sanction and ultimately kicked Turkey out of the F-35 fighter jet program, or placing ultimatums on NATO, President Erdogan’s disruptive behavior is making him a difficult ally.
Turkey not only defied Washington’s repeated requests to abandon the S-400 deal with Russia but it went on to test them just two weeks after President Erdogan met with President Trump in Washington.
Ankara plans on activating the Russian made S400's once their military personnel are trained and ready to operate them. By next April they are expected to enter combat duty.
Seventy years ago, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed w/ twelve nations who agreed any external threat to any of their independent states would be dealt with by collective (mutual) defense. Membership has morphed into twenty-nine North American and European states.
Contrary to the incessant propaganda that’s been spewed for decades, NATO is not a peace-promoting intergovernmental military alliance, but rather a regime-change propagating war machine focused on political and military intervention around the world.
NATO has left its bloody mark in Africa, Latin America, the Balkan region, and the Middle East. War crimes go unpunished, as culprits defend each other and coverup their crimes against humanity.
Four years before NATO was founded, the United Nations was established in 1945. The two allegedly share a commitment to maintaining international peace and security and have been cooperating together for decades, however...
If one were to look beyond the façade, they would discover NATO and the UN's injustice and indifference towards providing peace support and crisis-management operations.
UN members KSA and Israel are two of the world’s most prominent human rights abusers and yet they chair a number of boards for women & human rights. Just one ex. of the blatant hypocrisy by yet another organization that needs to be dissolved as it serves no benefit to humanity.
President Trump has mentioned a few times that the United States should withdraw from NATO and the UN, calling the first obsolete, and the second a political game. He feels that allies want to enjoy the benefits of NATO membership without sharing the risks and costs.
Even some of President Trump’s staunchest critics agree that since the Cold War ended NATO no longer serves its purpose. Trumps vocal statements coupled with unilateral foreign policy decisions have left NATO members feeling excessively uneasy about the fate of NATO, esp France.
Following President Trump’s abrupt partial withdrawal of troops from northern Syria, French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier this month that Europe is facing the “brain death of NATO” and questioned the United States’ reliability in defending NATO allies.
President Macron is a strong supporter of the transatlantic alliance and is worried that American indifference puts NATO at jeopardy. The one for all, all for one collective alliance is only as strong as its independent member states’ commitment to unity and defense.
President Macron is entirely justified in his skepticism especially with rampant political instability sweeping through Europe with Brexit and the globe as a whole. Uprisings whether generic or manufactured are rattling a number of continents simultaneously as well.
Regardless if European nations become more defiant, or if the US makes good on their desire to leave, or other NATO members withdrawal bringing on the collapse of NATO, whatever the reason may be, the weakening and dissolution of NATO would ultimately be a good thing.
Some believe that NATO was the most successful alliance in European history and now that it has served its purpose and accomplished its mission it should be put to rest.
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