“Turkey, for example, is more interested in playing the role of a middle power between the West and Russia while expanding its own influence in the Middle East, often openly sympathizing with Islamists groups such as Hamas whose fighters have been receiving medical treatment in Turkey. This is quite remarkable, considering that Nato’s original purpose was as a defense against the Soviet Union, and that Article 5 (stating that an armed attack against one member state shall be considered an attack against all member states) of the North Atlantic Treaty has only been invoked once in the 75-year history of the alliance. In that case, it was against the violent Islamism of al-Qaeda after 9/11.”

I am going to gouge my eyes out.

His only qualification is that he’s a fervent pro-Ukrainian hawk.