Why NATO Should Dump Turkey
25th November 2015
Yeah, Turkey so totally borders the North Atlantic.
This morning’s downing of a Russian jet underscores the problems with Turkey’s NATO membership and EU accession. It is perhaps not the worst example of how Turkey is not fit to be in a formal military alliance with the United Kingdom and the United States, but it underscores the point that the country is simply not ready – not even as ready as it was pre-2000. The country has regressed in three key areas as far as Europe and the United States should be concerned: on security matters, on human rights matters, and as a hub for mass migration into Europe.
Actually, the reason to have NATO at all any more escapes me. It was designed to keep Communism out of Europe; it failed to do that, merely managing to keep the Soviets out. There are not more Soviets, so it’s basically an excuse for the Europeans to shuffle off their defense spending onto the U.S. If they’re scared of Russia, let them spend their own damned money.