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This is playbook of scumbag tyrants, doesn't matter if Putin, Erdogan or similar. I for sure hope EU politicians are taking a note too, there are 2 existential threats to democratic free Europe long term - Russia and Turkey. Both have same ambitions, are on completely opposite side of all crucial values free world holds dear.

Luckily their competence severely lags behind their ambitions, to think Turkey was for some time considered to join EU... I think Ataturk would be heavily depressed if he witnessed present day Turkey and its leaders.

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You are underestimating the threat that CCP China is, not just to Europe but to the entire world.

China's exit, as happened 70-80 years ago, would cause us to have to work more. That might not be such a bad thing, though I doubt it will happen to the same degree. It's still fresh in everyone's mind.

No, you are just susceptible to "threat inflation". It's a very profitable industry in Washington.

One country misplaces a few weather balloons, another has hundreds of overseas military bases and bombs pipelines. Yet it's the former that is a "global threat", because the latter says so. Eye roll.

The former is also claiming that many territories it doesn’t hold are actually theirs and countries around the former are asking the latter to come help them defend in case of former’s attack.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708693.

Maybe if EU hadn't been so reluctant to let them in that would've put them on another path than the one they are going now.

Erdogan was in no rush either, his support was token at best until he could fly his true colors.

> This is playbook of scumbag tyrants, doesn't matter if Putin, Erdogan or similar.

I think you are being generous. The use of force is certainly a more extreme manifestation of the problem, but framing speech that you disagree with as "disinformation", "misinformation", "harmful", "hateful", "dangerous", "offensive", and so on is a technique used by petty tyrants and scumbag tyrants alike.

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