• Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Turkey is such a fascinating country, geopolitically. It's always fun to see just how obviously NATO barely tolerates them.

      • ifgehrehnenyissponde [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Haven't they also been posturing with planes against the Greeks a couple of times? Or am I wrong and there is 0 hostility whatsoever between the Greeks and the Turks

            • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              :comfy:

              I wonder if this is where we’ll first see an F-16 shoot down another F-16. MiG on MiG combat has been a thing, of course (most recently in Ukraine but I’m sure there’s been more in the post-Soviet past), but the disintegration of the US’s sphere of influence will inevitably go “hot” (:trump-anguish: ) at some point

              • Vncredleader
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                3 years ago

                I tried to find info on the Tajik Civil War, but it seems no one in the Opposition had planes, and the Tajiks relied on Russia for air-support but seemingly never had to dogfight. I assume some of Egypt's wars as well as India's have seen MiG vs MiG combat

          • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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            3 years ago

            who lets the greeks put a battalion in the country they were fomenting communal violence in lmao. the UN peacekeepers were already in the country preinvasion

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      The Turks just want the rest of Europe to concede that they count as White.

      If Turkey was admitted to the EU, I suspect Erdogan would be more than happy to grant Sweden and Finland NATO membership. But there's some bad fucking blood between the cowardly fascist hicks of Scandinavia and the Birthplace of European Civilization that is Turkey.