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It's unfortunate that some countries need a bitter reminder of just how much you need the rest of the world. I don't know if Turkiye is prepared to reconsider its foot-dragging on NATO admission for Sweden, and of cousrse Sweden's too decent to couple the two.
And I wouldn't, for example, wish a natural disaster on Hungary either. It's just a pity that that seems to be what it takes for these sorts of regimes to remember, oh, yes, we need each other.
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Sadly, disasters certainly show how much the people of many countries need saving from their incompetent govts; unsure how effectively that massive stress and anger actually transmits up to already-autocratic or despotic govts. (Unless there was a quake directly under a presidential palace, in which case they'd leap into action)
I can see Assad cornering all of the aid going into Syria, and making it his own largesse. Erdogan certainly not above targeting towns that vote for him.