Posted on 08/09/2022 5:24:50 PM PDT by BeauBo
Biden on Tuesday signed documents endorsing Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO, the most significant expansion of the military alliance since the 1990s as it responds to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Biden signed the U.S. "instrument of ratification" welcoming the two countries, the final step for their endorsement by the United States...
The U.S. Senate backed the expansion by an overwhelming 95-1 last week...
NATO's 30 allies signed the accession protocol for Sweden and Finland last month, allowing them to join the nuclear-armed alliance once all member states ratify the decision.
The accession must be ratified by the parliaments of all 30 North Atlantic Treaty Organization members before Finland and Sweden can be protected by Article Five, the defense clause stating that an attack on one ally is an attack on all.
Ratification could take up to a year, although the accession has already been approved by a few countries including Canada, Germany and Italy.
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I don’t care
(((YAWN))) NATO is about to become an environmental activist group.
Since they are documents I think our side should stuff them into his coat pocket then have the FBI raid his home quarters at the White House and arrest him for taking them from the US National Archives’ jurisdiction.
They should put their money up front.
I only care in that this will galvanize the Russian people to the cause of defeating the US and her sissified allies with the aid of Syria, Iran, Turkey, Argentina, Venezuala, Brazile, Panama, Mexico, and China. Then again, we get Ukraine, the powder puff brigades, and the trans-international forces of lies, injustice and the communist way.
This is a HUGE mistake. We are drawing a line where we are committed to defend nearly the entire formerly civilized world.
“…Then he drooled, sharted, grabbed his nurses tits and fell asleep on the desk.”
Think Khashoggi...
“They should put their money up front.”
They seem to be jumping in with both feet. Both have signed up to start training Ukrainian Military troops, which only a few NATO countries are currently doing.
Both Sweden and Finland already dedicate more than 2% of GDP toward Defense.
Sweden has a particularly advanced arms industry, and has shipped/is shipping good gear to the Ukraine, especially anti-tank and anti-ship weapons.
Jill Told Joe to Sign Some Documents of U.S. Support for Sweden, Finland to Join NATO
Joe scribbled something and got an ice cream cone.
It seems likely that Erdogan will hold out until the last, before ratifying the accession of Sweden and Finland into NATO, extracting concessions from all sides.
Those PKK guys seem doomed, and Putin will likely have to sell out Assad to Erdogan’s tender mercies as well.
Erdogan is also a big smuggler of oil, gas and gold; so Putin is going to have to pay him off in many ways.
Go away and take your wars with you.
How much of their share is the tax paying American going to have to pay?
“Syria, Iran, Turkey, Argentina, Venezuala, Brazile, Panama, Mexico”
oh are we supposed to be afraid?
Putin did that!
He is a GAY Clown, and the big joke is on Russia.
Nah.
Putin has the whip hand, in the end.
He isn't just a bunch of talk, hiding behind Ukie dupes and Ukie cannon fodder like the neocons in the West.
Erdogan respects those worthy of respect.
We'll never have to take the Scandinavian betrayers seriously again. They'd sell their mothers if Blinken told them to.
“Erdogan respects those worthy of respect.”
Like when he shot down that Russian jet over Syria?
Putin has little leverage over Turkey. The Turkstream pipeline, perhaps, but Russia is now hard up to keep that pipeline flowing - the only one left to the West that still operates normally. Erdogan’s hand is on that valve.
Erdogan has a lot that Putin now needs badly, and he is going to make him pay.
“We’ll never have to take the Scandinavian betrayers seriously again.”
But Russian soldiers will have to die from the anti-tank weapons they are providing, and Russian sailors from the anti-ship missiles.
Send more targets.
Let’s get the demilitarization of Russia wrapped up by Christmas!
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