What Happens If Two NATO Nations Go To War?
Turkey continues to push the military envelope with Greece and Syria
Greece and Turkey have a rivalry dating back thousands of years. Greeks and Turks have been antagonistic neighbors ever since the Persians crossed the Agean Sea to threaten the Peloponnese. That fraught relationship has gone through various wars, eras, and figures. The Ottoman Turks ruled Greece for hundreds of years, and Greece and Turkey have contended for great islands such as Crete and Cyprus. Turkey looked on as Nazi Germany invaded Greece during World War II and did nothing. However, after thousands of years of bitter rivalry, the two nations found themselves under the same military umbrella in the form of NATO. The Soviet Union was seen as a greater threat to the world than ancient disputes.
Today, Greece and Turkey remain neighbors on unfriendly terms but the two are tied together via NATO and are technically allies. But that alliance has not stopped the two countries from continuing to wage a war of words in 2022. The status of various islands in the Aegean Sea continues to be up for debate and both Turkey and Greece are claiming that the other is acting in bad faith in regards to old treaties governing the region.
The peace between these two historic neighbors has always been fragile and even…
