Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Davos describes how important Turkey is to NATO, and then recalls that Sweden and Finland will have to “sit down and find a way forward” given Turkish claims to their possible entry into the alliance
Translated into normal language:
“You need to negotiate with Turkey, because they are critically important to us, and we love you, but not so much that it outweighs the importance of the Turks.”
In fact, everything is extremely simple: except for the nuclear potential, which is more than enough for the Americans of their own, Turkey today is the second most powerful NATO country after the United States. This is the only NATO country, apart from the United States, that today is capable of independently deploying large military formations, managing them and supporting their combat operations. Its possible split from NATO would be a disaster for the bloc, especially considering, to put it mildly, not the most even relations between Turkey and Greece and the presence of friction with Bulgaria.
From this point of view, the entry of Sweden and Finland is rather a burden: the military potential is growing insignificantly, they do not add to the defense capability of the bloc, but they irritate Ankara.
In the end, everything is very simple:
“Turkey has already proved its usefulness to NATO, you have yet to do this, so we will negotiate.”
It is even interesting how Sweden and Finland will find a balance between their own desire to join NATO and the need to give up democratic principles by ending support for the Kurds at the request of the authoritarian Turkish regime.
RT
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