[barry-cotter]

It was no more obviously a troll move than seeing if they could join the EU. If they had been given a “Yes”, even with many, many conditions they’d probably have jumped at it. The prospect of EU membership was a big enough carrot for the Turkish military to relinquish control of the state to the electorate. NATO and EU membership? That would have been massive. Even EFTA membership would have been enormous. There was a brief period when Russia and its leadership sure looked like they wanted to be a normal country. Could have been a con. If not it was an enormous squandered opportunity.

[Schiendelman]

Both of those were troll moves. They don’t come close to meeting or being on track to meet the requirements for either. Their goal is to trick you, personally, into making comments like you just made.