[dom1n0]

"Saying the Turkish military is incompetent is really damning to the whole of NATO."

A determined invader could probably take Europe in 48 hours. The Cold War days of preparedness are gone; just witness the commitment of EU NATO members to ME conflicts; the lack of preparedness in Nice. The train has already begun derailing, one carriage at a time.

[valarauca1]

> the lack of preparedness in Nice

There is no way you can pin this on NATO unless you whole-heartly support a military police state.

[jacquesm]

And even then nobody would be able to stop a truck aimed into a crowd in time for it not to do any damage at all.

[dom1n0]

True to some extent, however. the police barriers were taken down hours before the attack, the numbers of police were also shown to be low; and last, but not least, they were not armed to deal with a credible threat.

Reports from SOF at Bataclan, for example, revealed that AK47-equipped terrorists forced the French SWAT teams to withdraw due to lack of firepower, and yet that lesson was not taken seriously to deal with attacks like the one at Nice.

[dom1n0]

WW2 showed that peace is never enabled by flowers, candles, and sandals.

[AnimalMuppet]

No way. Not even Russia, using all its military.

Now, if you had said one week...