I sometimes think about how the West seems to have learned its #WW2 lesson with their reasonable, albeit slow, help to #Ukraine.
But what is our reaction to #China arming and increasing military capability? What's our reaction to #Turkey, a dictatorship in #NATO?
Could it be that our children and grandchildren will read about how indecisive we were in declaring war on #russia, how we slept through Turkish sabotage of our military alliance and the second Pearl Harbor, the Chinese version?..
I wouldn't bet lunch money against it.
@jonn Before being voted out of office, 45 was on his way to dismantling NATO. Not a paragon of democracy and he was put in place by the Electoral college and Gerrymandering.
Erdoan is facing an election at home, his approach of devaluating the Turkish currency and confiscating people's foreign currency reserves has caused hardships in Turkey. Then there is the Earthquake, not Erdoan's doing, but it may be a factor in the election.
@HepCatJack honestly, I'm so gutted for the *people* of Turkey. I have a lot of Turkish friends, amazing people, so much suffering in 21st century while being *at the brink* of democratic breakthrough for decades. Gah.
@jonn The whole Kurdish issues started with Churchill not selecting a homeland for them when he was redrawing borders at the end of WWI.
Contradictory promises were made by the British to different people to secure a victory. The West created this mess.
@jonn you say it's 2023 as it would make a Kurdish homeland appear out of nowhere just because it's 2023.
The consequences of WWI still affects them just Native Americans forced off their land and placed in reservations still affects them.
Americans are still walking around with the Confederate Battle flags even though that was a 19th century conflict.
The Kurds are under pressure from Iraq, the Turks, and the Syrians.