It sounds like Erdogan has decided he doesn’t want to be putin’s pawn.
What were the Turks offered to withdraw their opposition to Sweeden?
What does Sweden’s NATO membership have to do with Ukraine? Sweden and Finland will be part of the alliance while Ukraine will be in ruins with a demographic catastrophe. The West will just keep throwing old useless decrepit weapons at Ukraine and turning it into a wasteland so that it could fight instead of them for years.
Man I don’t get Turkish culture (?). Flip-flopping from demanding EU admission talks to falling over in one day — isn’t that the biggest display of powerlessness possible?
Added the questionmark in the first sentence because I also can’t tell whether that’s indeed a cultural bargaining pattern or it’s just Erdogan being a self-grandiose loon. I don’t wanna blame Turkish culture if that’s just his personal antics..
Isn’t it just *’wonderful’* how we teach these authoritarian regimes how to blackmail us, leech off us, etc successfully? We really do have a talent for this. We are also good at exchanging their war criminals etc for our worthless idiots who placed themselves freely and willfully into harms way. And now we gave this Islamist authoritarian scum what he wants and needs.
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It sounds like Erdogan has decided he doesn’t want to be putin’s pawn.
What were the Turks offered to withdraw their opposition to Sweeden?
What does Sweden’s NATO membership have to do with Ukraine? Sweden and Finland will be part of the alliance while Ukraine will be in ruins with a demographic catastrophe. The West will just keep throwing old useless decrepit weapons at Ukraine and turning it into a wasteland so that it could fight instead of them for years.
Man I don’t get Turkish culture (?). Flip-flopping from demanding EU admission talks to falling over in one day — isn’t that the biggest display of powerlessness possible?
Added the questionmark in the first sentence because I also can’t tell whether that’s indeed a cultural bargaining pattern or it’s just Erdogan being a self-grandiose loon. I don’t wanna blame Turkish culture if that’s just his personal antics..
Isn’t it just *’wonderful’* how we teach these authoritarian regimes how to blackmail us, leech off us, etc successfully? We really do have a talent for this. We are also good at exchanging their war criminals etc for our worthless idiots who placed themselves freely and willfully into harms way. And now we gave this Islamist authoritarian scum what he wants and needs.