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It looks like Turkey will give up on the European Union (www.eurotopics.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So it will be called BRICST?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

BRICST'D'VE'MST

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

TRICS if Brazil decides to leave

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Why would Brazil decide to leave?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

"Will give up"? They gave up a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

they intermittently bring it up to get votes from more center and younger voters

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it does look like a sensible option. BRICS countries are growing in number and their combined wealth is nothing to sneeze at.

Turkey was never really allowed to be a part of EU and therefore will join the cool new club while the rest of Europe grows in far right rhetoric, and generally anti islamic sentiment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I dunno. It may have been on the table at one point had they continued to work towards improving infrastructure and combating corruption. But once Erdogan turned autocrat, that door was closed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

What a bunch of turkeys

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago

Lucky them. It's going to drag the rest of us down. The EU is finished. "To be a friend to America..."