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Re:UN Security Council Holds Closed Hearing on Turkey: Syria... by sahinabi on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:14AM (#21215412)
Take a look at the number of Syrian refugees each country hosts, compare it to their population and GDP if you feel like it.

Turkey have many problems dealing with its minorities, neighbours, even its own citizens, sure - but on this issue, maybe its time to get off your high horse, before calling any country nefarious. Are we really worse than Spain, worse than France, worse than UK? Why do they have a say in it without helping the problem in the slightest?

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Re:UN Security Council Holds Closed Hearing on Turkey: Syria... by remarkEon on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:25AM (#21215568)
NATO's charter isn't "refugee caretaker of the world". It's a mutual defense pact. I'm not interested in playing word games around who is the most humanitarian country (Turkey would lose that one anyway) - I asked a specific, strategic question about what benefit Turkey adds to the rest of NATO alliance members.
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Re:UN Security Council Holds Closed Hearing on Turkey: Syria... by ghostpepper on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:21AM (#21215525)
What about buying billions of dollars of weapons from Russia? Does that qualify as grounds for expulsion from NATO?
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Re:UN Security Council Holds Closed Hearing on Turkey: Syria... by sahinabi on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:27AM (#21215609)
What about arming and aiding a terrorist organization who is fighting with your NATO ally? Does this qualify?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6AEyhHMnT4

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Re:UN Security Council Holds Closed Hearing on Turkey: Syria... by ceejayoz on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:27AM (#21215608)
Depends a bit on whether those weapons have internet access.

We used to pay people handsomely to get our hands on Russian weaponry to play with.

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Re:UN Security Council Holds Closed Hearing on Turkey: Syria... by ListeningPie on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:26AM (#21215587)
How are buying weapons from Russia grounds for expulsion from Nato?
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Re:UN Security Council Holds Closed Hearing on Turkey: Syria... by jbob2000 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:16PM (#21219731)
NATO was formed as a deterrence against Russian aggression. To then buy weapons from them is a pretty big conflict of interest.
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