Blinken urges Turkey to immediately approve Sweden's NATO accession

Erdogan will not listen to the pathetic geopolitical childish laments of good old US..

Erdogan will not listen to the pathetic geopolitical childish laments of good old US..

They should or they will find themselves outside of NATO in addition to being outside of Europe.

Why is the US begging,this only empowers this Jive Turkey autocratic rule

The US Congress has blocked arms sales to Turkiye since 2018 due to anger over the Turks purchase of S-400 from Russia. More recently widespread support for both Armenia and Greece in the US Congress has led to anger at the Turks for their support of Azeri aggression against Armenia and aggressive Turkish statements and actions directed at the Greeks over islands in the Aegean Sea along with Mr. Erdogan's closeness to Mr. Putin. There is no guarantee Turkiye will be allowed to buy F-16s regardless of what they do wrt Sweden's NATO ascension.

Seems some lingering hard feelings over US and EU efforts to destabilize recent Turkish elections and attack their currency in FX markets etc.

Turkey having participated in great Muslim reconciliation diplomacy along with China just this year, could be eying much discussed future Muslim military alliance. Certainly, Russia intends to join and provide much needed defensive WMD deterrence capabilities, like now in Belarus. China's role not yet clear, but multi-polar's here.

Seems NATO's can take 'catalyst' credit for above!

ClayToday 03:49 pm JST

Seems some lingering hard feelings over US and EU efforts to destabilize recent Turkish elections and attack their currency in FX markets etc.

Just because you imagine things to be true, doesn't mean they are. Your fiduciary is perfectly capable of bankrupting Turkey by himself.

Turkey having participated in great Muslim reconciliation diplomacy along with China just this year, could be eying much discussed future Muslim military alliance. Certainly, Russia intends to join and provide much needed defensive WMD deterrence capabilities, like now in Belarus. China's role not yet clear, but multi-polar's here.

The grand awakening of what exactly? Russia ain't a pole anymore than Canada is.

America is at a steady decline, she cannot hold some of her key allies together. Erdogan is right, slowly moving away from NATO.

America is at a steady decline, she cannot hold some of her key allies together. 

Heard this one before.

In the 70s, the Soviet Union and it's planned economy was going to Hahaha I can't even finish the sentence it's so stupid.

In the 80s, The Japanese with their mighty forward looking companies and worker Bs were going to drive the lazy American and the short-sighted American Corporations into the sea. It was all an illusion as Japanese GAAP allowed companies to mark increases in land holdings to their balance sheets creating phantom equity and allowed huge borrowing. When it all popped, we got the lost generation, no generations.

Now we hear that China is going to inevitably replace the US as a global power.

Bunk. China will be the first large economy to get old before it gets rich. And their companies couldn't innovate a fart at a bean festival.

So keep talking if that makes you feel good. The US economy, innovation, rule of law (in spite of Trump) and governance (could be better) are the envy of the world.

There are issues to be sure. When we solve them, there will be new issues and we will solve them as well.

The Turks know, or at least should know which side their bread is buttered on. I expect that eventually they will act in accordance with their interests and admit Sweden.

elephant200May 31 06:35 pm JST

America is at a steady decline, she cannot hold some of her key allies together. Erdogan is right, slowly moving away from NATO.

27/29 allies moving together is not a bad record. The useless holdouts can be dealt with.

In the 80s, The Japanese with their mighty forward looking companies and worker Bs were going to drive the lazy American and the short-sighted American Corporations into the sea. It was all an illusion as Japanese GAAP allowed companies to mark increases in land holdings to their balance sheets creating phantom equity and allowed huge borrowing. When it all popped, we got the lost generation, no generations.

I have been hearing about the supposed decline of the US my entire adult life, which is long enough to remember black and white TVs with only 13 manually selected channels available. Sterophonic FM radio was a brand new thing and receivers cost a fortune. I have a row of books from my days in grad school forecasting the imminent eclipse of the US economy by that of Japan. One even predicted the US and Japan would fight a war over it. That didn't happen. Playing catch up it is a lot easier to post high annual GDP growth numbers than it is once you are in a position of economic leadership. Now you have to innovate to grow instead of just doing what your peers did earlier. Your labor and cost of living becomes more expensive so low wage manufacturing jobs no longer pay the bills and go elsewhere. China has the added disadvantage of a declining labor force and rapidly aging population where immigration keeps the US population young, vigorous and growing, overcoming the low total fertility rate. There is something to be said about being a desirable place to immigrate to and an advantage the US has that China with its current government does not.