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Xolodno

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20. That would be dicey at the least....

Reply to jeff47 (Reply #18)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 01:43 PM

Nov 2015

Armenia is allied with Russia and have no love of Turkey. Russia would have to choose between the two and given Armenia is closer to Russia geographic wise and Turkey isn't a reliable ally due to its "Ottoman Empire" complex, doubt much of a friendship there.

Greece would love to see Turkey get the boot however. If they did, they probably be a better NATO ally as a result...instead of being the most likely ally to drop out of NATO...

Turkey's only value to NATO are the bases, I suspect a lot of shouting at Turkey's direction is going on behind the scenes. They really picked a bad time to do this with Hollande in DC and Putin in Jordan.

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How much do you wanna bet that Turkey will never participate darkangel218 Nov 2015 #10

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