fahrenheit451:357

Yes indeed, things can go from bad to worse and from fraught situations to terribly fraught situations in the twinkling of an eye.

With just over a week to go of the General Election 2019 aka GE2019, NATO held their Leaders'summit in London,the occasion also marked the organisation's 70th. anniversary of coming into existence.

Supposedly predicated on the axiom of one for all and all for one,the truth is it hasn't been doing a terribly good job at even maintaining some sort of superficial yet agreeable pretence that the rule of law or some such ludicrous notion actually operates within NATO.

The US and Turkey's machiavellian machinations in the Syria imbroglio is the prime case in point.France's President Macron reiterated with the typical verbal elan oft ascribed to his countrymen,that NATO must be brain dead and that what Turkey was doing in Syria vis a vis the Kurds was not acceptable.
US President Trump on the contrary demurred in his customary,erm,style.
A tisket,a tasket NATO's heads all in a basket.Member betraying member by failing to appraise them of some strategic ledgerdemain?

Well how about NATO member Turkey invading and conquering the northern part of Cyprus in 1974?The UN member island state remains partitioned to this day.The British forces garrison at the time was made to look on in stunned disbelief and diplomatic abasement before the Turkish military's coup-de-main.

Moving forward in 1982 and when NATO member state Great Britain was attacked by Argentina of all countries,the organisation's Three Musketeers-esque cri-de-coeur was hastily ignored as everyone looked elsewhere hoping to avoid making diplomatic eye contact with the British.

The French,in revenge no doubt for the British sinking the French fleet at Mers el KIber in 1940, addressed the Argentinian aggression in the Falklands,by promptly supplying the Argies' airforce with the exocet missiles they needed to sink British ships.

And then in 1983,there were the Yanks storming into the tiny Caribbean island nation state of Grenada - a member of the British Commonwealth ,without informing beforehand the bemused Thatcher government in London at the time.

And so on and so forth.

Then there's NATO's ignominy in Yugoslavia and its various component republics,Iraq (twice),Afghanistan,Libya and Syria.But they call them successes and in any case the burgeoning 29 nation state member alliance has more more pressing matters to worry over at this moment,when Trump called Trudeau two-faced on the record.

Terrorism,Russia and the emerging threat of China are vying for top spot in NATO's contrived moral panic list.

In conclusion,with the wannabe great Ottoman Sultan Erdogan getting effective carte-blanche to do whatever in Syria,one can only conclude that by NATO's own historic criteria,rules and policies -NATO itself is a terrorist organisation.