Honestly I don't see NATO leaving one of their members in the cold, I think the formation of the organization was actually in part due to the Soviets, and the image of an organization that fights for its member has to be upheld at ll costs.

I also think the NATO members know what Erdogan is up to, and what he is doing - its like discovering one of your children is involved in crime, you don't anika them - makosa yametendeka.

The biggest problem with what Turkey did is the precedent it sets, especially looking at what China is doing on those artificial islands.

Backing Turkey will be difficult even if the leaders of NATO wish it. The cost of that is enormous. If Ankara's support for ISIS continues then the war will intensify, hence militant attacks across the world. But the citizens are afraid and economies are faltering.

Turkey, may even implode.

Can there be an end to war?

@¿, It's true that multiculturalism has so far been faced with a paradox of being in fact intolerant in spite of its protestations. The immigration crises across the globe, the apparent escalation of racial tension is evidence for this.

The question I'd ask myself is whether tolerance is the only basis for multiculturalism. I think not. There's also acceptance. I believe acceptance because there's evidence that it has worked, not for a brief period but a pretty long period of human history.

Think of a world where all humans are accepted, respected and loved.

@Anti_B, you ask about the result this conflict; first it's a challenge to humans, so minds will go 'over drive' and consciousness will rise. Man will transform. It may be a long process but I'm optimistic. For me this is the main thing that's happening. The human mind is being stirred, solutions are being sought, experimented upon, so much pushing and pulling, dying, but he'll certainly emerge victorious with the end of war.

The world is more interdependent but world order has not yet been threatened. The balance of power may change but the system remains the same. War can be used as a scapegoat for global economic woes but benefiting from the death and suffering of others is still an acceptable part of the system.