TIL After the collapse of ISIS in Syria, Turkey has been invading and taking territory in Northern Syria

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[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I also found this very interesting map of each country's reaction to the 2019 Turkish invasion of Syria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Turkish_offensive_into_north-eastern_Syria#/media/File:Reactions_to_Turkey's_2019_Rojava_offensive.svg

Seems like the 'stans and China and Russia are pretty much OK with it. And the west is very much not OK with it.

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I wonder why NATO hasn't kicked out Turkey yet.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Because Turkey is the foundation for NATO. The US has 3 military bases in Turkey that it's using constantly to invade Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Even though 85% of Turkey people hate America basically, they're trapped together because of the mutual defense treaties they signed that was the foundation for NATO.

Trump actually wanted to ignore what Turkey is doing on the basis he didn't want to mess up the NATO relations. But since Biden has taken office, the US has placed sanctions on Turkey, disallowing any further arms sales to Turkey because of what they've been doing in Syria the last few years.

So it's definitely a possibility, but there's a lot of risk/reward calculations that keep the US reaction to Turkey's actions from being too strong.