As Russian Missiles Arrive in Turkey, Erdogan Crosses a Rubicon

[Elderberry]

Yahoo Finance by Marc Champion and Selcan Hacaoglu 7/12/2019

By taking delivery of Russian air-defense systems, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has crossed a second political Rubicon in as many weeks at the risk of lasting damage to his country’s economy and relationship with the West.

That’s partly by design: Erdogan has long sought to transform the Westward-facing Turkish republic that emerged from the former Ottoman Empire. His aim is to reshape Turkey as a distinctively Muslim power, less dependent on U.S. weapons systems and security guarantees, and no longer in thrall to Western credit markets and values.

Buying the S-400s, as one Turkish cabinet minister has put it, amounts to a declaration of independence. Turkey sees the balance of power shifting away from Europe and the U.S. and envisions itself as a more independent actor in a changing global order, according to two senior Turkish officials who asked not to be named discussing government strategy.

More: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russian-missiles-arrive-turkey-erdogan-130225021.html
 

[jafo2010]

Time to kick Turkey out of NATO.  Mussies cannot be trusted.  And they deserve what they get with Russia.  An alliance with Russia will have them reduced to Iran status where the world ignores them.  Perhaps a decade or two being treated like a 4th rate nation is just what Turkey needs.

[Fishrrman]

+1 jafo.

Turkey OUT of NATO -- now.