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U.S. F-16 fighter jet shoots down an armed Turkish drone over Syria (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Part of me wants turkey to escalate and leave NATO, so they can't block other nations from joining as a bargaining chip, again.

Another part of me is worried about the Black Sea situation and the grain exports when turkey would side with russia.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

so they can’t block other nations from joining as a bargaining chip, again.

More importantly, so we can take direct action against them to protect the Kurds. It's infuriating were essentially allowing a genocide purely because of geography