Quite a climbdown...

Putin says Sweden and Finland joining NATO and breaking with decades of neutrality is fine after all. ‘No problems’

Russian president Vladimir Putin once said that any more countries on Russia’s doorstep joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) constituted a threat to Russia, and would provoke “military and political consequences.” 

In fact, Putin warned last year that NATO expanding its military infrastructure eastward into Ukraine would be a “red line” for Russia and perceived as a direct threat.

But three months into a Ukraine invasion that’s not going according to plan, and after two other countries close to Russia announced that they are joining NATO, Putin appears to be softening his tone, and resigning himself to the fact that NATO’s eastward expansion is happening anyway. 

https://fortune.com/2022/05/16/sweden-finland-join-nato-putin-no-threat-russia/

He has probably made some sort of deal with another dictator Erdogan  to slow stop the process.

Erdogan is just as bad, Turkey still occupy Northern Cyprus after taking it by force in 1974, still not recognised by most countries. One of the reasons Turkey cannot join the EU.

6 hours ago, Thailand said:

He has probably made some sort of deal with another dictator Erdogan  to slow stop the process.

Erdogan is just as bad, Turkey still occupy Northern Cyprus after taking it by force in 1974, still not recognised by most countries. One of the reasons Turkey cannot join the EU.

It makes no sense to say that Putin made a deal with Erdogan. If that was the case, then why did Putin climb down from his previous bellicose position? After all, his bluff couldn't be called if he and Erdogan actually made a deal to keep Finland and Sweden from joining NATO.

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