Turkey has the largest armed forces in NATO after the US. Should Turkey joining BRICS mean an end to Turkey’s membership in NATO?
Turkey has the largest and best-equipped military in the Middle East, and Turkish public opinion strongly supports Palestinians in the Israeli-Gaza conflict. President Erdogan has been expressing opposition to the Israeli invasion of Gaza and recently threatened to enter the war in support of the Palestinians. Is Israel headed towards a war with an alliance that includes both Turkey and Iran?
Technically they should have been expelled from NATO decades ago. But they control the straits and NATO always wanted to keep that in their sphere for strategic reasons.
As for joining Brics, that’s primarily economic. But there is a military component that is developing. Unless they exclude themselves from the military component of Brics, they should be expelled from NATO. Can’t be a member of two different military alliances. After all there’s not CSTO members in NATO and vice versa.
I suspect that Erdogan may end up following de Gaulle’s example from 1967. France did not formally leave the alliance, but instead it is expelled NATO military forces and removed its forces from NATO control.
“France is determined to regain on her whole territory the full exercise of her sovereignty,” wrote French President Charles de Gaulle. The country intended to stop putting its military forces at NATO’s disposal and intended to kick NATO military forces—and those of NATO members—off of its land.
Of course, the US had a history of alleged connections with coup attempts and assassinations attempts against de Gaule. A similar situation with Erdogan is likely to intensify.
The US can close its bases and end military sales to Turkey, but there is no mechanism within the NATO treaty for expelling members although Turkey could withdraw from the treaty.
your Russian propaganda does not impress me. Turkey joining BRICS is nothing. BRICS is nothing. A basket full of worthless currencies does not enhance the basket.
Yes, BRICS is the European Economic Community 2.0. A loose association of sovereign nations for the purpose of promoting trade and commerce.
On the other hand, NATO has become the Warsaw pact 2.0 with its own version of the Brezhnev doctrine.
It is like the Hotel California, “you can check out any time you want but you can never leave”. Ask the people in Slovakia, Hungary, and Serbia if you doubt that.
That’s basically every military alliance. They don’t want you to leave. Russia threw a huge fit when Ukraine and Georgia both withdrew from the CIS since Russia was violating their sovereignty (especially so in Georgia’s case).
Yes, Georgia’s foreign agent registration law is an assault to democracy and freedom, but the US foreign agent registration law is defending democracy and freedom.
The freedom of US-government-funded NGOs to instigate color revolutions is a sacred under the rules-based world order. On the other hand, African-American socialists accepting reimbursement for travel to Russia is a threat to national security worthy of felony charges.
Yes, only the US and its allies are allowed to invade countries with impunity in the name of supporting separatists.
US troops are still in Kosovo to protect the ethnic Albanians after the 1999 NATO bombing campaign of Serbia. They are still in Syria and Iraq to support the Kurds after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
I disagree with us doing that unless said country has attacked us first. What we did in Iraq was some ■■■■■■■■ because Saddam was many things but he had not attacked us or any of our allies since 1991.
