• CatAssTrophy@safest.space
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      10 hours ago

      Syria was doing its own terrible tyranny until pretty recently so Israel previously felt like the country could do its own internal unmitigated violence, and now its trying to trend towards something at least slightly better and they believe an improving Syria is a potential future threat. Turkiye is further away than either Syria or Lebanon, so they need to produce a better “excuse” to start shit there, but attacking Iran with little retaliation has them thinking they can shoot their missile-shots there soon as part of their attempts at broadly-regional dominance.

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      22 hours ago

      Not sure about Syria, but my armchair general knowledge tells me that the Turks will definitely fight back. Hard.

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        Turkey is a NATO member and their armed forces are using NATO equipment. If Israel attacks Turkey that would trigger article 5 of NATO which would force all of the countries bound by it to declare war on Israel. If they refuse to do so then NATO wouldn’t be worth the paper it’s written on.

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          Turkey wouldn’t need any help from NATO to take care of the Zionist military. And if they’d get even the slightest help, then it’d be over even quicker.

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          Germany for one would be bound by its paraconstitutional Staatsräson to refuse, which would end NATO and give Putin his old empire back on a silver platter.

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          17 hours ago

          Nowhere does article 5 state you need to declare war, just to help in a way. Could just be sending money or helmets

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      22 hours ago

      Apparently the dumb cunts didn’t learn from the two-front war of their inspiration the nazis and wanted to try and three- or four-front war.

      • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
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        18 hours ago

        “Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts Only the heir to the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve.” Londo Mollari.