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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Places like Turkey and Pakistan try to play both sides, the far away global superpower of the Americans and their nearby neighbour Russia and majority of their continent.

Russia has lots of Arctic ocean but is VERY limited for warm ocean access. In part, that's why Crimea is so critical. In winter Russia is almost frozen in.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Turkey left nato last year.

Also, Syria has the only Russian port on the Mediterranean.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Turkey, I kinda recall something like that, among other things.

TIL re: Syria. They should be extra cautious of another Lebanon-like blast.