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Former French President Hints at Removing Turkey from NATO
2020-10-30
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Posted by:Fred

#23  Not misunderstood, TW. I was trying for irony, apparently, I missed
Posted by: Frank G   2020-10-30 21:31  

#22   "A Turkey shoot?"

Fishes in a barrel?

I wasn’t making a clever joke on purpose — the term came up in discussions here on Rantburg when OldSpook and a number of others were explaining the benefits of building a wall only along the busiest portions of America’s southern border rather than the entire distance from California to whatever state is farthest east on the Mexican border, which would funnel illegal border crossers into a few small areas where they could be easily shot by a few defenders.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-10-30 21:07  

#21  #1 never saw The Princess Bride.
Posted by: JHH   2020-10-30 18:09  

#20   "A Turkey shoot?"

Fishes in a barrel?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-10-30 18:02  

#19  If you wanted to outflank Russia there are many options. Russia is a very big nation.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-10-30 16:41  

#18  While bears are hibernating? That wouldn't be cricket.
Posted by: Clem   2020-10-30 13:58  

#17  ^ A Turkey shoot?
Posted by: Frank G   2020-10-30 13:25  

#16   Without Turkey in NATO, we cannot outflank Russia.


Some ignorant thoughts triggered by that statement:

  • Can we not stage out of Alaska, if we were really to go to war with them?
  • What about the new bases in Poland?
  • And looking at it Napoleonically, how interesting would it be for the parties involved if we set things up so that if Russia wanted to invade Europe it would have to go through Turkey? There is a term for that that I can’t remember... something like a shooting gallery?
    • Posted by: trailing wife   2020-10-30 13:19  

    #15  ^ don't you make that deal in Diplomacy?
    Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-10-30 13:09  

    #14  Or. NATO and Russia can outflank Turkey and punch Erdy right in the dick.
    Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-10-30 12:42  

    #13  Turkey is like California, in that the territory and geography is useful, but a majority of the people occupying them are useless (note I didn't say all the people, just a majority).
    Posted by: charger   2020-10-30 12:19  

    #12  Why wouldn't Harris invade Russia? They are nothing but trouble. They meddled in the US elections. They support Syria. They require an expensive ring of bases to keep contained. They have nuclear weapons. Regime change in Moscow and it's all over.

    Realize, people, that a global governance is at hand. This means smashing and conquering the last few holdouts - Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan, Syria, North Korea. China comes last, as they're still useful.

    Unless Trump's re-elected in which case peace breaks out.
    Posted by: Jaiger Sleath7993   2020-10-30 11:36  

    #11  Invade Russia? LOL. Has someone been watching Dr. Strangelove?
    Posted by: Clem   2020-10-30 10:38  

    #10  Invade Russia? Sure.
    Fair's fair. Russkies invaded our congresscritters' brains, after all
    Posted by: Spolung Ulomoting4320   2020-10-30 10:33  

    #9  When do you think this supposed invasion of russia is going to begin? Fuck turkey and fuck your invasion plans.
    Posted by: Chris   2020-10-30 10:18  

    #8  
    Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209   2020-10-30 10:17  

    #7  The Harris administration is going to invade Russia. A two-prong strategy has a higher probability of success. The Germans lost in part because they only came from one direction. We won't make that same mistake twice. We will also be bringing winter coats this time.
    Posted by: Jaiger Sleath7993   2020-10-30 07:25  

    #6  @ #2 - Hear, hear, Raj. We should have begun the process on 10 November 1989.
    Posted by: Clem   2020-10-30 06:48  

    #5  Why would you want to invade Russia? It's a threat, but to its neighbors and thus a certain degree of regional stability. I don't see Russians conducting open terrorist operations against the west as another foreign agents do. Got to remember we sided with Stalin against Hitler. Sometimes you don't get the 'ally' you want.
    Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-10-30 06:26  

    #4  French political system will lose totally to Ms Le Pen if they don’t do something quick regarding everything Muslim.
    Posted by: 3dc   2020-10-30 04:56  

    #3  The Germans failed to get Turkey on their side and lost, let's not repeat the same mistake.
    ...And the Kaiser had the Ottomans as allies in WW-1, what exactly is your point?
    Posted by: magpie   2020-10-30 02:14  

    #2  How about removing us from NATO? That's what I'm talking about.
    Posted by: Raj   2020-10-30 00:40  

    #1  Without Turkey in NATO, we cannot outflank Russia. With Turkey in NATO, we can invade them from two directions simultaneously, greatly complicating their defense. The Germans failed to get Turkey on their side and lost, let's not repeat the same mistake.
    Posted by: Jaiger Sleath7993   2020-10-30 00:40  

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