Some observers have sarcastically remarked on social media that Turkiye was “up to its old tricks again” and had “predictably backstabbed” Russia, though this is a twisted interpretation of reality that must urgently be clarified in order to avoid misleading any more people than it already has. Turkiye agreed to a memorandum with Finland and…
Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Turkey’s President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara’s objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid. The removal of Erdoğan’s objection was reportedly obtained via significant natsec concessions from the other two…
On May 18, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a Norwegian named Jens Stoltenberg, stood on a stage, flanked by the ambassadors to NATO of Finland and Sweden, Klaus Korhonen and Axel Wernhoff, respectively. It was one of those made-for-television moments that politicians dream of — a time of high drama, where…
On May 12, the Prime Minister and the President of Finland officially announced that they had decided to apply for NATO membership. Presumably, no referendum on this issue will be held, everything will be decided in a voluntary way through the current authorities. One should ask the question – was Finland really a neutral country?…
Is it possible that the war we thought we won in 1945 was merely a battle within a larger war for civilization whose outcome yet remains to be seen? The decision recently expressed by the Finnish and Swedish governments to join NATO’s collective suicide pact shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who has…
NATO’s spat over Turkish opposition to Swedish and Finnish membership is about more than expanding the North Atlantic military alliance. It’s as much about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s immediate political goals as Turkey’s positioning itself in a new 21st-century world order. On its surface, the spat is about Turkish efforts to hinder support for…
