Part of one country, being an ally of another, agrees on who their common enemies are and who are not. Otherwise, they have no reason to unite, the Washington Post article says.

However, this is easier said than done, especially when the selfishness of the Ottoman Sultan is inherent in one of the members of the union, the observer emphasizes, referring to Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Among other things, he says that the Turkish president is playing “a double board” with regard to his war. Vladimir Putin in Ukraineirresponsible about the process of their integration Finland And her Sweden in NATO.

According to the publication, the case in which Erdogan “lost his temper” is the Aegean case. The greatest tension within NATO is observed between Greece and Turkey, which actually consider each other enemies.

“With such allies, why would you need enemies?”

Recently, the article notes, the tension between the two countries is not only verbal. Greeks. “With such allies, why do you need enemies?” The Washington Post emphasizes.

The fact is emphasized that Turkey even threatens Greece, which is also a member of NATO, with war.

All alliances, like most families, have their contradictions, and Erdogan has long been portrayed as a black sheep, much to the chagrin of other allies. It even bought the S-400 air defense system from Putin, which could endanger US-made fighter jets.

As the columnist notes, the times in which we live are too serious to be distracted by such things. The West must remain united and strong. For this reason, he adds, he should put aside the old and empty enmity, like that between the Greeks and the Turks. The ultimate goal is to prevent Putin from escalating and expanding the war he started in Ukraine.

As emphasized, the Turks should remind their president that this is in the interests of both Turkey and NATO.

^{Source: Washington Post.}