Turkey Agrees To Back Sweden's NATO Membership

[Gondwanaland]

Turkey had been the last holdout to greenlight the process to allow Sweden to join NATO, after they asked for membership in the last year, following Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.

Finland joined back in April.

Turkey backs Sweden's Nato membership - Stoltenberg


Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to support Sweden's bid to join Nato, the military alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg says.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66160319

Good job, Putin.

[Sparko]

And Ukraine is next.

Then probably Russia will join NATO.

[JimL]

Russia's fear is that if a democratic Ukraine joins NATO there'd be 1200 miles of NATO bordering Russia, but they shot themselves in the foot because by attacking Ukraine they forced Finland to join NATO which added another 850 miles or so of NATO on the Russian border. Oops!

[Ronson]

Turkey had been the last holdout to greenlight the process to allow Sweden to join NATO, after they asked for membership in the last year, following Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.

Finland joined back in April.

Good job, Putin.

Do you really need the qualifier "unlawful" in connection with the invasion? I doubt even Putin believes it was legal.