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  1. strunkenwhite

    So...NATO is expanding...

    I am prepared to grant for the sake of argument that it's plausible Turkey might manage to take the Suez Canal in a world where Europe and North America are preoccupied by apocalyptic civil wars. But I don't really see the relevance since if the West preemptively beat up Turkey prior to such...
  2. strunkenwhite

    So...NATO is expanding...

    I am accepting for the sake of argument that Turkey and China have such ambitions. Western economies look shaky at the moment, sure. Political division, sure. Race riots? Compare 2020 to 1968, or the 1960s in general, or 1992. That storm has passed, and left less damage (literal and...
  3. strunkenwhite

    So...NATO is expanding...

    It seems to me that this is a key part of your fears and it is one that I cannot take seriously at face value without more supporting argument. Riven though NATO nations may be by internal politics, I don't see them as becoming so paralyzed that they will stand still for a hostile takeover of...
  4. strunkenwhite

    So...NATO is expanding...

    I'm pretty unhappy with Turkey's shenanigans, but seemingly not to the degree you are. And, hate it though we may, there is something to be said for "politics makes strange bedfellows". The ridiculous ideas about teaming up with Russia against China were ridiculous chiefly because Russia could...
  5. strunkenwhite

    So...NATO is expanding...

    No, I'm pretty sure Apple's OS is the one with Time Machine.
  6. strunkenwhite

    So...NATO is expanding...

    Do you happen to recall how their military spending lines up with the 2% target? I'll just add to this by pointing out that interventions in the Caribbean and so on don't count [as disproving that the US tried isolationism, because] US isolationism was always in the context of "isolated to the...
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