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Yeah - it's a location of US nukes.
by calvinmorrison 6y ago
Yeah - it's a location of US nukes.
- petre 6y agoThe US should probably move the Turkush nukes to Greece, since moving them to Romania and/or Poland would piss off Russia and mark the beginning of the next cold war. These countries are much more reliable partners than Turkey. Moving them to insular Greece (if the Greeks accept them of course) would also send a very clear message to Edrogan.
- croes 6y agoThat's like Russia placing rockets in Cuba. Wait a minute...
- bilbo0s 6y agoRomania and Poland are militarily stupid places to put your nuclear assets. Turkey offers blindingly obvious geographically advantageous benefits. That's the reason NATO needs Turkey. That would change if Russia is not your enemy, but the entire raison d'etre of NATO is to prevent war with Russia.
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- mrec 6y agoIt also controls the Bosphorus, hence cutting off the Russian Black Sea Fleet from the Mediterranean, and is a handy staging point for operations in the Middle East. Nobody else can do the first, and alternatives for the second are less palatable.
- petre 6y ago> Nobody else can do the first, and alternatives for the second are less palatable. A submarine blockade can, like the one employed by Germany in WW2.
- nradov 6y agoNo a submarine blockade can't do it unless Turkey allows it. Submarines would have to operate in Turkish territorial waters and would be vulnerable to their ASW defenses.