To recap from the past month or so:
Orlando Terror Attack
Brexit
Crazy UK Political Fallout from Brexit
Taiwan Terror Attack
2 allegedly unjustified police shootings of black men on the same day, both caught on camera and posted online
5 police killed, 7 injured in attacks during Dallas protest
Major Terror attack in Nice kills nearly a hundred.
Coup d'etat in Turkey.
All in the space of about a month, and I may have missed some things. All of it against the backdrop of increasingly bonkers politics around the world. WTF is going on with the world this year? Did someone inject something into the atmosphere?
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
US troops are already there at military bases (we have nukes in Turkey), this also isn't another country attacking a NATO country, this is a NATO country attacking itself, bit different...this also isn't Turkeys first coup
Most military/state department families were taken out of Turkey weeks ago, they saw this coming
It's about fucking time!
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PSA: Being a volunteer is no excuse to make a shite job of it.
That is obvious.
However, it's logical to assume that if country A is allied with country B (and NATO is an alliance after all), then if country A suffers due to a coup or any internal unrest, it might ask its allies for help in stabilizing the situation. Even if the treaties themselves do not include any regulations regarding such situations.
And, in such case, it would look bad for country B to outright refuse to help their allies, since it makes it seem like the entire alliance is simply a group of countries who aren't really allies and just want their asses covered in case someone invades them.