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If they didn't end up in control of the Bosporus Straits, they probably wouldn't have been.

But world as it is, etc.

It was a good play for US when they were expecting to engage in nuclear war with USSR, but now its kind of clear they're not really embracing the brand image.

First part of your comment is true. NATO is irrelevant, but also they contribute to it more than most: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm

NATO is still relevant because its effectively a death pact. I don't want to be in a death pact with a leader who stages their own coups, and is actively commiting acts of aggression against other Western countries as well as still in an ongoing invasion of Cyprus.