Turkish divisions take Berlin...having wiped out the EU

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Okay. Can anyone think of a POD that would place the Basques in Northern Iraq? :)

God damn it...(smacks head on the keyboard)...I was listening to NPR at the time and they were talking about them...I didn't even think about it...


...those Turks...they've got to not like the Basques, right? Maybe...ETA called Kemal Ataturk's mother fat or something? :D

EDIT: Okay, I changed it...I can't believe I did that...I didn't even misspell it or anything. That's so bizarre!
 
If fascism take powers in european countries, the EU would dissolve, or at most, become a very lightweight alliance. And there is not a single reason for them to attack Turkey. European nations would become isolationist. The only place I can see them performing military interventions is in Africa, for economical reasons (which would may cause conflict with China).
 
Sure! I'll do my best, it's a long book.

Basically, it's 1995 (it was written in...1992?) and the Russians and the West have gone downhill as far as diplomatic relations go. Most of this is because of Moldova and the Ukraine, which are both moving towards NATO membership.
The Russians are propping up an ethnic-Russian minority in Moldova that's trying to get the government to vote to rejoin an alliance with Russia as opposed to NATO. When the Russians feel the Moldovans are about to fold, they decide to buckle the Ukrainians in line, and the Ukrainians don't budge.
During all this, the USAF goes on alert because the Russians are flying Bear and Backfire bombers out of Cuba again to try and keep NATO out of the whole thing, since the Black Sea Fleet is getting frisky and Turkey is asking for additional aid.
The President (whenever you run into the President in this book, just turn your blinders on. Dale Brown hates the Clintons, and he doesn't bother hiding it. That's the one part of this book that's terrible.) decides to mobilize an RF-111 unit that's still strike capable and send it to Turkey.

By the time they get there, war's broken out between the Ukraine and Russia. The Russians have launched nuclear weapons at Ukraine and the government has evacuated to Turkey as part of a secret agreement worked out months before that NATO wasn't informed of. Basically, the Turks just blackmailed NATO into a war.
So what you have is a set up for the Turkish Air Force and Navy, Ukrainian Air Force, and one RF-111 unit against the Russian Black Sea fleet and a shitload of Russian Air Force planes.

It's without a doubt Dale Brown's best written and most realistic book. Probably because there aren't any suits of armour or hot-rodded B-52s with lasers.

it´d belarus´, then poland then UK, i guess i do not think that turkey´d not be even on the list but i see her some real historic parallels: "In 1855 Mickiewicz's ... On the outbreak of the Crimean War, he left his under-age children in Paris and went to Istanbul, Turkey, to organize Polish forces to be used in the war against Russia. With his friend Armand Levy, a Romanian Jew [1], he set about organizing a Jewish legion, the Hussars of Israel, comprising Russian and Palestinian Jews."
 
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