Turkey has blocked the start of negotiations in NATO regarding Finland and Sweden entry into the alliance.
DPA, citing its sources in the organization.
— Maria Dubovikova (@politblogme) May 18, 2022
Now is not the time to talk. Now is the time to bribe.
Time is of the essence, and so is discretion. If Erdogan wants to turn this into Lets Make a Deal, Blinken needs to square it away quickly and quietly lest everyone in NATO start demanding concessions as well…
Because democracy hangs in the balance or something.

Always “negotiations” for war, never a word to use for peace.
Some lefties say warfare is a corollary of trade. I think its a corollary of being alive. The birds do it, the bees do it…
As a sponsor of terrorism they should not be in NATO
Yes.
The Map of Europe, now in dry erase marker!
Just one more thing to observe as the insanity continues.
That will teach those nasty Europeans for not letting Turkey in the EU.
And so once again, Turkey is the focal point in a staring contest between two nuclear countries….just like it was during the Cuban missile crisis.
Turkey has never amounted to anything.
They want to be relevant. They tested the EU with the arab migration and won. A lot of money.
They are doing it again.
The NATO should send them down the river.
If Turkey wants to prevent superior European countries to do anything, Turkey can go on out by themselves and see how that would work out for them.
Europe does not need Turkey, Turkey needs Europe.
The head of the government of Turkey is bluffing, the guy is legend in his own mind.
The only thing they have going for them is Dardanelles and Bosporus, other than that they don’t amount to hill of beans.
Once in the history of human development, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia was cradle of civilization. Turks had nothing to do with it, that’s why the civilization have moved on without them.
PERFECT…LMAO.!!
Nato and their overly aggressive shit need to back the frick off. Pushing that narrative is Every Govt/MSM in the WEST…and to me, thats downright fricking DANGEROUS.
I don’t give a shit what Turkeys aspirations are, but the above side effect is whats needed.
If you heard some shit on MSM…roll it around a bit and it’ll look like a turd in Minutes.
We don’t have gas chambers yet but America and Canada seem to be working towards just that. Not sure who they want to gas just yet but hey, I might be on the list.
Canada and the U.S. should leave NATO and focus instead on the defence of North America, particularly the Arctic. Ask military-age male Canadians if they would be willing to go to Europe to fight and die to protect it. I would guess that at least 75% would not, and that is the right answer given the governing philosophies of Canada and the EU.
We already have fought two wars for Europe, and various other engagements.
Enough.
And I doubt anyone would find “men” in Canada. Not anymore.
Of all the world wars only two started in Eastern Europe, Let’s ignore the problem. It will surely go away. What is the worst that could happen?
Yes, let us ignore the Austro-Hungarian empire, and pretend that it never happened.
As usual, your blind salvo failed to register with the target.
I’m not too thrilled about the thought of having to pick up a rifle on behalf of my fellow “country’men'” here at home… half of which, at best, are not worth the least of my bodily fluids. And…you can bet your ass I won’t be doing so for the likes of our own tyrant leader.
It’s a very Canadian thing to want to defend the Arctic but it is silly to think anyone will ever attack it. I’m not even sure we want the Arctic. Why would any country fly over thousand of miles of Arctic ice and face an almost certain defeat? Finland has 1000 times the GDP and is next door.
@OttawaMJ – “Ask military-age male Canadians if they would be willing to go to Europe to fight and die to protect it.”
Easily 75% of European decent would agree judging by recruitment career choices. Break that question down to racial & cultural demographics and see the results.
To be obliged to fight and die for woke Finland or Islamist Turkey is obscene.
Agreed, or to fight for the globalist UN/ EU cabal with any endeavour they throw at us.
French Canadians are of European origin and the majority of them did not want to go overseas to fight for France in either WWI or WWII. I doubt that has changed.
English and French Canadians don’t want to go overseas to fight for Turkey or Finland, or even Germany, either. How about that?
“Easily 75% of European decent would agree judging by recruitment career choices. Break that question down to racial & cultural demographics and see the results.”
Agreed. One of the consequences of importing turd worlders is that the new electorate has less and less cultural and civilizational allegiance to culture and civilization.
So, how many of your kids are off fighting for the Ukes?
You who think that Zelensky is civilized but Putin is not.
You are the penultimate anti-white and anti-Christian bigot, foaming at the mouth about whatever target you hate enough, you are the antithesis of both mythos and logos.
That’s how I know you’re a woman, to boot, no male, not even Hitler, could hold such vitriolic hatred as you do.
Nah, he’s just a “real conservative” … a “Never Trumpian” GOPe gargler from the school of Mitch the bitch McConnell. Yeay Wall Street FU mainstreet kinda guy/gal/they
I am “Never Trumpian”? Interesting.
“So, how many of your kids are off fighting for the Ukes?”
Both are too young to even consider enlistment.
“You who think that Zelensky is civilized but Putin is not.”
That is a fact.
“You are blah blah f*cking bullshit blah”
I am against enemies of civilization, both foreign and domestic. I am for those who want to embrace civilization and the lives of those who reject it have no value to me. You are a deceitful cretin, who embraces the enemies foreign as soon as they show signs they don’t like enemies domestic. You root for evil. Pure unadulterated evil, that you lie, to your worthless subhuman self, is not that bad. You want civilization to fail so it learns a lesson. So you can spew your vile “I told you so”. (What is the value of such lesson after civilization is gone? Never mind that.) You’re a demagogue who has never won a single argument. Your only weapon is to consciously twist the words of your opponent our of context and meaning. You have no redeeming characteristics. You are worthless. You’re neither a man or a woman. You’re sludge.
Ahh yes, the female canine who has copyright on what civilization means. In her kind it means “Whatever the Russians aren’t”, a true bigot, a female dog who doesn’t know math, to boot, but take away her indoor plumbing, and she folds like an umbrella.
We’ve all seen her foam at the mouth about the “Siberian Mongol Orcs”. Her, Hitler and Pol Pot are of a kind, with an insatiable love of mass-murder based on ethnicity, in her case, Russians.
“Whatever the Russians aren’t”
A necessary but not a sufficient condition.
“…who doesn’t know math…”
Bitch please, you end long before I begin.
“Her, Hitler and Pol Pot are of a kind, with an insatiable love of mass-murder based on ethnicity, in her case, Russians.”
1. Pol Pot did not murder based on ethnicity.
2. None murders more russians than russians themselves. They abort more of their litter than give life births too. That’s a good thing btw. Also more russians drink themselves to death than are killed by valiant Ukrainian defenders. That is a good thin too.
3. Russians love those who murdered millions of them. If Hitler was russian they would have loved him too.
4. Indoor pluming is a good thing, you should try it.
5. You’re sludge.
You’re every defense is a confession of your hatred of your fellow human, you female dog.
When the so called “fellow humans” (who are in fact neither) stop murdering, raping and pillaging my fellow humans, and learn to stay in their burrows, get back to me. Until then a good orc is dead orc.
both Finland and Sweden have another option other than joining Nato
but they’d have to unsign the NNPT to do it
That’s a very expensive option. They’d rather be in NATO and get the US defending them for a pittance.
Make no mistake, NATO=USA. If the USA doesn’t engage, NATO doesn’t engage.
The new swedes who are failing to integrate should be sent south to Turkey and their ilk where they will be so much more comfortable, regardless of the fallout from this discussion. Then Turkey should be “let out of NATO”.
Or, the old swedes can pretend that they’ll amount to something someday… of course the country will lay in ruins by then. Yes, I know this isn’t going to happen.
Yes … the entire Swedish volleyball team should be gang-raped by the Turkish basketball team. What? That’s already happening in an integrated Sweden?
Fuck them all. Let em learn Russian.
meh…profanity filter…let’s try again. Eff them all…let em learn Russian.
Censored again.
Nothing of value was lost.
Yes, we already know where you stand vis a vis free speech…
along with the rest of the Stand with Ukraine folk, like Pelosi, Biden, Schiff, the Turd and Freeland.
She likes the way he kills innocent Russians, so he has her vote.
Like I said: sludge.
P.S. Innocent russians are like good cops or good Nazis, not enough of them to give a shit about.
There is more goodness in the most jaded Russian whore’s soul than there will ever be in yours, you sick freak.
But enough about your mother.
Observe how Colon has no difficulty insulting dead mothers of people she doesn’t like or even know. This is the essence of the left. They have no shame and no mercy, they will happily kill without reason. They are the enemy of Mankind.
“Without reason” lol, the reason you’re alive is because she was to too drunk to remember to abort you. Typical orc.