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PunkFriday t1_j6cqujj wrote

Nato needs to revisit Turkey's membership status. Are there lesser partnerships without the veto rights?

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SomeDEGuy t1_j6czm8m wrote

As long as Turkey has control over a major world waterway, they'll have power and position.

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Teantis t1_j6gpgxl wrote

Nato cannot 'revisit' anyone's membership status. There's no mechanism for booting countries from the alliance. There's some really tenuous legal reasoning the other states could unanimously declare one of the member states in material breach of the treaty and repudiate it, but there's a) zero precedent for it and b) really unlikely to ever get unanimous consent from everyone as quite a few countries would be concerned it could be used on them in the future.

To get turkiye out of NATO the us and it's main allies would likely have to make life so uncomfortable for them that they withdraw themselves. Like when you wanna break up with your partner and just act like an ass till they break up with you.

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roelbw t1_j6hndky wrote

All other NATO countries could decide to create a "new" alliance called NNATO, and then leave the old NATO, leaving just Turkey in it. The problem is that Turkey has had access to western military technology for a long, long time.

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