Wednesday, June 29, 2022

NATO in the News

 Finland and Sweden now in NATO?  Yes.

Turkey (Erdogan in particular) basically gave in.  There is some type of paperwork that Finland and Sweden signed at a table to make Turkey happy.  I think external pressure came up to a level that Erdogan could not say no.

Big deal now?  Marginally so.  

It puts a weird scenario out there....if anything were to happen with Russian threats.  You could see a reaction on a Lithuania front....with not only Poland, the US and the Germans reacting....but Finland and Sweden contributing forces.

Putin now?  I think his inner circle are sitting there and grumbling.  Something needs to be done to show 'big-boy' status against Lithuania.  But they've misjudged the whole landscape, and made things even more screwed-up.

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