Posted on 05/19/2022 7:27:28 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Turkey has told allies that it will reject Sweden and Finland's membership to NATO, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a video posted on his Twitter account on Thursday.
Finland and Sweden formally applied on Wednesday to join U.S.-led NATO, a decision spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Turkey's objections have come as a surprise to the other members of the alliance.
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The Turkish president said Sweden and Finland harbour and finance "terrorists" and supply them with weapons, repeating Ankara's accusation that the countries supports groups that it deems terrorists, namely the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group and Syrian Kurdish YPG, which it also views as a terrorist group closely tied to the PKK.
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Well, Turkey won’t be aligned with NATO forever. Eventually, they are going to fully jump sides and align with Russia. Just a matter of time.
Globohomo vs the Soviets and Chicoms...
Yep, and it was our government, by pushing Finland and Sweden toward NATO, that gave Turkey the opportunity to score. Do you think our Neocons will catch on to the game?
I was wondering when someone would notice, Thanks, you made my day.
PS, Malmo ain't the only place, Sweden just so needed a Protected Class.
Renfrew is right. NATO is just the global form of the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. WHat need has the US for NATO? What need has NATO for the US? The answers to those questions are all you need to know to decide that NATO should be disbanded. AT a bare minimum, NATO needs to be restructured so that the European nations bear the majority of the expense _of their own defense_. The US, at most, should be a military supplier to those nations. Our troops should just about never shed blood for these leeches.
God bless Anatolia.
I think Turkey’s trajectory is going to be pretty much the same whether it is in NATO or not.
Concur.
Hunter, is that you?
I have no idea what Turkey is doing in NATO in the first place.
Sounds Great to me!
Erdogan is Putin lite. They both need to be escorted to the trash heap.
You missed the thing about Swedes manufacturing ugly cars. Mid fifties Volvos were the worst, just having one parked at the curb would reduce housing values for three or four blocks in all directions.
Who’s worse? I dont see Russia demanding I eat bugs, live in a pod, AND LIKE IT.
Unfortunately for you, there are no Soviets, so you’ll have to do with just Chicoms.
When the USSR collapsed, American defense contractors went into overdrive lobbying for NATO expansion.
Feel free to do it yourself.
“They are just negotiating a higher price. Like walking out of the rug shop.”
This.
Erdogan wants some of his political opponents extradited from the US so he can have them executed and that’s definitely on the table here.
The whole “Globohomo” schtick makes you guys sound like third graders. Unserious people who should be ignored.
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