Greece & Turkey have two of NATO's largest militaries - Their tensions have escalated in recent years stoking new fears about the first war within NATO
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In every post-June 2023 scenario, Turkey just looks like a slow-sinking ship
Routes from Ukraine to Finland to smuggle arms have been established, said a Finnish detective
Erdogan, while explicitly threatening a NATO ally, has a plan to seriously undermine Western sanctions on Russia
The US lifted its arms embargo on Cyprus in September but the US decision has rankled Turkey which is at odds with NATO ally Greece over the island
It's the first four-a-four since the two men had a brief one in June
Due to the incident, the flow of natural gas was temporarily interrupted
Erdogan privately disdains NATO & uses it as a tool to gain leverage being ready to move closer to Russia, to Iran & coddle the most radical Islamist movements
US President Bill Clinton reportedly demanded that Hungary attack Serbia by land from the north during the NATO aggression in 1999
US plans to supplant Turkey as a trusted ally at this stage only at the level of infrastructures which reflects an increased mistrust towards Ankara