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when i say escalate beyond, i mean think of this:

turkey is a nato member. they used to have a secular government. until fairly recently they were an israeli ally.

now turkey has an islamist government (for life, apparently), is a nato frenemy (sweden hi), and has parted ways with israel.

what kind of effect could bibi's retaliation have on turkish politics? turkey is not poor lebanon or decimated syria or poor egypt paying for bread subsidies. turkey has very a powerful military. their military used to be their secular stronghold, btw, but these days-- who knows (their 2016 attempt against erdogan failed, they got reformed).

this whole situstion is a real powder keg. i hope that's just me being paranoid, but i see terrible chain reactions.