Quote from: LittleBitFunny on Today at 03:26:17 PM

AFAIK, the Nato has a principle called Consensus Decision. When a member wants to join the bloc, it must have the consent of all the countries in the bloc, and when a country is revoked its membership of Nato, it must also have the consent of the whole Nato bloc. Which means that Turkey can only leave NATO if and only if it votes for itself to leave the bloc, the US cannot unilaterally revoke Ankara's membership.

Turkey is the only country in the bloc with close ties to Russia, having been the mediator of many war talks between Russia and Ukraine, most recently a grain deal. If the US pushes Turkey towards Russia, just as they are making it difficult for themselves, the EU will fall further into crisis without Turkey.

And why exclude the idea that America wants to put more pressure on Europe? By pushing Europe to impose economic sanctions on Russia, the Arab countries entered into economic crises in various forms and found themselves forced to acquire their needs from the United States on unfair conditions. Of course, this contributes to reviving the American market, which is going through a state of chronic deflation.
When we say NATO, it means America or simply America's allies. There would be no NATO without America.
For this reason, Turkey could be expelled from NATO if America wanted to.
America will not ask Turkey to be expelled from the coalition because of its position in support of Israel and because it is a strategic ally on the ground regarding the situation in the Middle East in general (Syria, Iraq, Iran). The difference in positions on some issues will not encourage America to sacrifice everything unless it has benefits from it, as it does with its European allies.