Erdogan repeatedly said that that the Syrian (Turkish border) operation was going to happen no matter what. As I've said before, the fundamental idiocy and lack of knowledge about the Kurdish-Turkish situation as exhibited by LibBot Nation was absolutely incredible and amaze. Not to mention the fundamental inability of LibBot Nation to admit that the United States never had any business being in Syria . . . ever, it was the war mongers Obama-Clinton that put us there (I'll leave out the destruction of Libya for this conversation).
NATO costs the U.S. $26 billion dollars a year in direct spending either via the direct funding of NATO itself coupled with the U.S. military bases in NATO countries. What isn't calculated is the billions spent to ensure the U.S. has the ability to rapidly respond to support NATO because the piss ant underfunded in theater countries in NATO still either grudgingly or fail entirely to live up to the GDP expenditure mandates.
Not a penny spent by NATO countries, other than the U.S. to support Ukraine in terms of lethal aid while Angie Merkel essentially funds the Russian military with her Germanic-Russo only pipelines (how positively Molotov–Ribbentrop).
Now LibBots support Mac talking crap, a guy who is the leader of a country who wouldn't even fully commit to NATO and still picks and chooses what it will or won't support.