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Turkey to reject Sweden and Finland's bid to join NATO
Reuters News ^ | May !9, 2022

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cucks; finland; putinsbuttboys; sweden; turkey
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
The whole “Globohomo” schtick makes you guys sound like third graders. Unserious people who should be ignored.

Classic projection. Coming from the clown show that brought US the 'putin puffer' name game. Fk all y'all.

61 posted on 05/19/2022 10:34:04 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!!)
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To: BlackbirdSST
Classic projection. Coming from the clown show that brought US the 'putin puffer' name game. Fk all y'all.

You must be confusing me with your boyfriend. Never used that phrase myself.

62 posted on 05/19/2022 11:20:22 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: MercyFlush

He won’t get that, but he’ll get everything else.


63 posted on 05/19/2022 1:44:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin; Reily

Lots of countries can make excellent weapons, so what?

Sweden made great steel in the 1940s, they sold it equally to the Allies and the Nazis.

Did you know the NYPD has more cops than Sweden has soldiers?

How does their joining NATO benefit America?


64 posted on 05/19/2022 1:46:25 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

The ‘globohomo’ stuff plays well with a Russian audience and these mutts lack the sophistication to appreciate that the word sounds alien to most Americans.


65 posted on 05/19/2022 1:48:52 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce. ☭☭☭)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

They used too. Now a days I question that.


66 posted on 05/19/2022 1:50:26 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (You get what you let occur with no resistance. Everything Joepedo n' felons do is on your head.)
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To: Travis McGee

My preference is that NATO evolve into something else, maybe split into as many as three alliances. As it is its obsolete, however that’s a different discussion. Since NATO is not going away, this adds two states that at least pay their own way on defense unlike Germany. Of course, we’ll probably volunteer to relieve them of much of that burden.


67 posted on 05/19/2022 2:06:37 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Travis McGee
Did you know the NYPD has more cops than Sweden has soldiers?

No, they don't. Swedes have a bit more than 50k compared to 35k NYC cops. As to what good they could do, that's somewhere around 30% of the force with which Russia invaded Ukraine, so it is significant when added to the forces of other allies.

Benefits the U.S. by adding to the strength with which Europe can provide for its own defense.

68 posted on 05/19/2022 2:22:45 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Thunder90
Google it yourself.

There is no Soviet.

69 posted on 05/19/2022 2:23:08 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Throw down the gauntlet! If anyone refuses, then the U.S. will withdraw. Oh wait. That would take some guts and Biden barely has a brain.


70 posted on 05/19/2022 3:39:10 PM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

From what I have seen since Erdogan took power, I’m afraid you are right.


71 posted on 05/19/2022 6:48:07 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Swedish territory lends well to defense so raw numbers are not completely relevant. Also, the Swedes ran a nuclear weapons program from 1945 to 1972 when they supposedly stopped. I imagine if they had to, they could dust that off and restart.


72 posted on 05/19/2022 6:59:34 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Phoenix8

Past time to toss the Trojan Turks into the Black sea like so many Coney Island blowfish.


73 posted on 05/19/2022 7:04:50 PM PDT by jester221 (Stupid pills, with all due respect, should have an obama-proof lid)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Whoa whoa whoa, only Putlerites don’t want to live in the pod and eat the bugs.


74 posted on 05/19/2022 7:54:44 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Check your facts, Bruce.

Swedish active military: 29,750.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel

NYPD: 38,500 active police officers.

https://policeteststudyguide.com/new-york-city-police-department/


75 posted on 05/20/2022 3:39:09 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

You didn’t say “active”. Swedes have another 30k reserves with a one week mobilization.


76 posted on 05/20/2022 4:51:21 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Navy Patriot

Form a NATO North organization that does include Sweden and Finland and does not include Turkey.


77 posted on 05/20/2022 8:33:33 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Arcadian Empire

The best option is to form NOPETO.


78 posted on 05/20/2022 8:45:04 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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