Originally Posted by racedo
You looking at this from a US perspective using rationality.
Turkey looking at this from what Erdogan wants and demands.
Good point, this. Rationality is a contested concept in politics and any other "science" involving human behaviour, and the West gives it too great a credence when it starts banging on about the 'rules-based international system' and other such things. Essentially, we use "rational" to describe parties whose thinking we understand, and "irrational" to describe those whose thinking we don't. As such, our use of "rational" or "irrational" says much more about our own knowledge and understanding of the world than it does about the other side's sanity.