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Commentary: When it comes to Turkey, NATO needs to consider divorce

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a statement after chairing the cabinet meeting in Ankara, on Dec. 14, 2020.

This week, I’m getting married in France. I should be writing my vows, but instead I’m writing this column, though the concept of marriage is still on my mind.

Being a foreign policy nerd, it occurs to me that the closest approximation to marriage in international affairs is an alliance.

Partnerships, among people and nations, have a wide range of possible meanings and scope. But alliances are formal agreements that indicate a specific kind of commitment, such as marriage. An alliance is a promise between nations to support and

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