According to US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, the NATO alliance is giving serious consideration to formally joining the war against ISIS. Carter praised NATO head Jens Stoltenberg for getting behind the effort.
The move would in many ways be symbolic, as all 28 NATO member nations have already joined the ISIS war individually as part of the US coalition, meaning this would just be the alliance as such formalizing its own involvement.
Making the war a ‘NATO thing’ might go a long way toward bolstering US efforts to get the rest of its coalition to commit growing numbers of ground troops into Iraq and Syria for the conflict. The US has so far faced considerable resistance on this call.
Carter confirmed speaking to dozens of coalition members during the Brussels meeting about trying to get them to commit more troops to the war, but other than Saudi Arabia’s offer to invade Syria, it’s unclear if they got anyone to bite.
………… and Turkey will lead the charge. Oh Boy!
It’s like the arsonist helping the firemen put out the blaze.
With petrol.
Yup. The goal here is to get Turkey to invade Syria ostensibly under “responsibility to protect”, then accuse Syria (and/or the Russians) of attacking Turkey, then use Chapter 5 of the NATO Charter to justify a US/NATO air campaign against Syria – the goal all along of the entire Syria crisis.
Anyone who can’t see this coming is an idiot. The only question is how far will Russia go to prevent this?
And if the Israelis hate having Assad as a neighbour, wait until they meet their new neighbour, ISIS.
Russia can’t afford to back off, there is absolutely too much at stake. Russia must stand strong and it will….and if it has to use a strategic nuclear deterrent to convince nato and the americans that they mean business, then unfortunately, so be it. And if the americans still don’t get it, it wouldn’t hurt to send some nuclear deterrent into the war mongering america itself. See how they like a war in their own backyard!
The US has been in this war for a long time, as a friend of ISIS.