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I love this analogy. While Turkey can't spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy smart missiles, it innovated to protect herself. Its allies used to rent d
by meaydinli 6y ago
I love this analogy. While Turkey can't spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy smart missiles, it innovated to protect herself.
Its allies used to rent drones for surveillance against terrorism, then used it as both a carrot and a stick. Now, Turkey has its own drones that regularly take down targets effectively, even some air defenses.
After Syrian war started and "modern western liberal democracies" failed to help with the refugee crises, those borders became even more treacherous.
- StavrosK 6y ago"Protect herself" sounds funny when they're invading neighbours left and right.
- pinkfoot 6y agoWe fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Heard that before?
- StavrosK 6y agoBy that logic, the EU should invade Turkey.
- meaydinli 6y agoThen her neighbors should stop harboring, training and hosting terrorists, no? ...and it is laughable to suggest EU will lift another finger for Greece after taking their wallet and vacationing with that money too
- StavrosK 6y agoWhat terrorists is Greece harboring, and how is driving refugees to the border and forcing them to cross a solution to that?
- meaydinli 6y agoGreece financing terrorists: https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/kurdistan-workers-party-pkk https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/kurdistan-workers-pa... . Please scroll down to "Financing". They also have links to their sources. As for refugees, they weren't forced. The border police just didn't stop them. I agree Erdogan coming on TV and yelling it out openly was a below-the-belt tactic and after that people started transporting refugees by the bus to the border.
- soganess 6y agoBeing on the side of Turkey in the Syria conflict cannot be the right side of history. Especially because they are now in control of Kurdish occupied lands in Syria. Saying that the Turkish government harbors a century-long paranoid animosity toward the Kurds is the understatement of the year. Turkey's government is just the big despotic fish in the small geopolitical pool that is the Caucasus / Northwest Middle East. Finding cheap ways to kill is not a defensive strategy for the gov't.
- sudosysgen 6y agoTurkey is a major economy that can and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on missiles, so not really.