Turkey in NATO: Inscrutable, unreliable, but indispensable
Two strongman leaders could go a long way to determining how the Ukraine war ends. Both are intolerant of dissent, both harbor 21st-century ambitions fueled by nostalgia for vanished empires, and both are scornful of what they see as America’s outsize influence on the world stage.
Yet while one, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, is a sworn enemy of the U.S.-led NATO alliance, the other is a key NATO member, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
And as the war in Ukraine enters a potentially
