The West’s overdue awakening

Here we are consumed by our domestic affairs when important and unpredictable developments are taking place around us that have a direct bearing on us.

Turkey seems to have pushed too far in its uneasy relationship with the West. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have failed to realize how much the world changed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ankara's continued refusal to green-light the induction of Sweden and Finland into NATO has caused an incredible amount of frustration in Washington, as well as in Europe. So too have its games with Moscow, allowing Russia to sidestep Western sanctions. Everyone now knows that the enormous number of microchips being imported by Turkey in recent months is not the result of an increase in Turkish industrial production. The same is obviously the case with airplane parts.

The revelations made by former US secretary of state...