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When tragedy strike, politics go out and aid from many countries go in to help people in distress.
It's worth noting VA-TF1, and all of the other FEMA USAR teams, have enough supplies upon deployment to be self sufficient for 72-96 hours, thus not relying upon local resources that are better spent caring for others. >

Gonna take a lot more than 3 or 4 days to dig out the reportedly tens of thousands of trapped folks. Hope they've got a supply chain planned. >

Part of their SOP is just that. The 3 to 4 days is the most crucial part of USAR. >

It's almost like being in a really cool coalition has benefits >

Spotted the Russian war apologist/war-crimes supporter. >

The rampant usage of emojis gives it away. >

Yup. >

"Following an international appeal for help, Turkey's President Erdogan said 45 countries had offered support."  As per BBC report this morning. >

It would be pretty cool if Sweden sent some support. >

Fuckin' class act right there. >

Also a politically adroit move.  There is an upcoming election and Sweden is helping the common man of Turkey.  Erdogan will need to be careful about denying Sweden's bid for NATO while his opposition thanks Sweden publicly for helping during a time of need. >

He will probably just try to bury any news of aide from Sweden. But hopefully it forces him to allow Sweden and Finland into NATO. >

Would be a very opportunistic moment for Sweden to deliver a swift care package. >

We are just sending money so far, we will respond according to what Turkey needs and asks for going forward. This isn’t really related to our current stale mate though, we usually send aid when disaster strikes regardless of our personal feelings towards a country’s government. >

I saw where Sweden sent tents (like tent city tents) already. >

Good! I hope they end up being useful! >

From the sound of it they should be very useful. So many people are homeless now. >

Yeah and of course the cold makes it even worse, just awful all around. I hope they can reach people with the aid, I read that many roads and airports are destroyed as well but maybe military helicopters could work?