Posted on 05/16/2022 1:55:46 PM PDT by McGruff
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said he will not approve Finland and Sweden joining Nato.
Reuters is reporting he has said Swedish and Finnish delegrations should not bother coming to Turkey to convince Turkey to approve their Nato bids.
Finland and Sweden, while both Nato partners, have long viewed membership as an unnecessary provocation of Russia, their powerful eastern neighbour. Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, however, has led to a radical rethink of their security policies.
Membership of Nato would require ratification by all existing members.
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Erdogan is not our friend
If I am correct any NATO member can veto a new admission as Turkey seems to want. Currently there are sub treaties between nations in NATO. In effect if Turkey vetoes Finland and Sweden the rest of NATO can and will effect a sub treaty of mutual defense. F Turkey.
Smart move. I hope he stands firm and can’t be bought off.
Turks are swarthy while Finns and Swedes are mostly fair.
So we lose Turkey and gain Finland and Sweden. +1.
EASY to solve:
KICK out TURKEY
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