{"id":1144,"date":"2022-08-18T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2023-06-29T23:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:21:32","slug":"commentaries-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Commentaries #19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><strong><strong>Some Implications of Sweden and Finland Joining NATO<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">|<strong>Michael Gunter, Tennessee University, US<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">|<strong>Executive Summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden and Finland\u2019s decision to abandon their longtime, famous neutrality and apply for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) indicates that Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has disastrously backfired. These two new NATO members will bring tangible geostrategic benefits to the alliance, not just a token weight. NATO has suddenly gained a new and greater strength and legitimacy. As for the Kurds, they need to understand that NATO\u2019s deal with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to approve Sweden and Finland\u2019s NATO membership in return for their cracking down on supposed Kurdish terrorists sheltering within their borders is not as hostile to Kurdish interests as they claim. Sweden and Finland are not likely to extradite Kurds accused of political crimes to Turkey. The Kurds should comprehend their very secondary position in the existential power struggle involving NATO and Russia and not overreact against it. As explained below, this deal with Turkey, like earlier ones, is not likely to be as inimical to Kurdish interests as first meets the eye the eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU Turkey Civic Commission<br>www.eutcc.net<br>Twitter: @EUTCC1<br>Facebook: Eu Turkey Civic Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Implications of Sweden and Finland Joining NATO |Michael Gunter, Tennessee University, US |Executive Summary: Sweden and Finland\u2019s decision to abandon their longtime, famous neutrality and apply for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) indicates that Russian president&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}